You don’t have to be vegetarian to think twice about processed meat. At least eating fish is good for you

Christmas is the time of year when I was struggling with a vegetarian. I give to eat meat when he was 18 and was a moral decision. I like the taste, and I went on holiday to Greece and fact I was feeding lamb skewers before plunging into a life without meat.

I am very strict vegetarian - I eat eggs and dairy products, but nothing that could mean the death of an animal to provide food on my plate. (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall If I again remembered that the dairy industry is a bit of death, if you are male bull, and not all sweetness and light for calves and their mothers, ten- Eight years later, pregnant with first My child, I began to eat fish. This fatty fish contains many of the major omega-3 chain fatty acids, which are essential for the growth of neurons. Later l have found very difficult to give up, so that the consumption of fish and other seafood continued, trying to make more sustainable This means that I am now one of those vegetarians who was frowning. eyebrows - sometimes eats fish and everyone knows that there is a fundamental error in biology: vegetables.For catch a moment, I wondered if I was an important distinction between phylogenetic I would not be able to. in the food we get a line across the tree of life on the planet and decided. On the one hand, it would be fair game, while the other was out of bounds? It seems natural gap between vertebrates and invertebrates. This means that eating mussels and scallops, avoiding fish. The distinction seems logical and reasonable, particularly if the nerves in the brain and fish are very similar to ours, and experiments show that the sensation of pain. He doubts that the mussels and scallops, several groups of nerves, lymph or possession, but the absence of a real brain, knowing that the pain would be the same way (though, curiously, has up to 100 scallops small eyes scan world between the two halves of the shell). But what about the octopus? He invertebrates - and very smart. The nature of the convergent evolution - like in many different branches of the tree of life - meaning that my attempt to base my diet on a phylogenetic difference at the end, very sense.I've found that vegetarian reduction. Cognitive dissonance there, with a small debt, but I can live with this level of hypocrisy. After all, would yield benefits that go beyond the pleasures of eating these delicious things. Oily fish is good for heart health, and eatingtwo NHS recommended servings of fish week.On Furthermore, there are serious health reasons that convinced me to eat again red meat. Exactly the opposite. From October 22 scientists met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer of WHO in Lyons, to discuss unhealthy, can be a lot of red meat and deli foods. They examined the results of over 800 studies showing a possible link between meat consumption and increased risk of cancer, including colorectal cancer test. Most scientists agree that Lyon was not enough evidence that processed meats - like, cured, fermented and cured smoked - were carcinogenic. For the unprocessed red meat, the evidence is less convincing, but the group is still considered possible risk.translated a new WHO classification of red meat on the potential human cancer, while processed meat is carcinogenic to man - in same category as asbestos and smoking. The new ranking in the news, of course. 'Hamburgers sausages and bacon are a big threat cigarettes cancer, warned a newspaper. But the fact that the classification of the WHO is not how the threat or danger is if there is convincing evidence of carcinogenicity - meat and processed. But the risk of red and processed meat is much lower than the risk from smoking, and fewer deaths could be attributed to smoking meat. All around one million people die each year from cancer caused by smoking; About 600,000 die from causes related to alcohol; and about 34 000 deaths are due to diet high in processed foods meat.Still 50 grams of processed meat every day increases the risk of colon cancer by about 18. To provide context, six people in developing colon cancer 100 in your life. If everything was bacon or sausage to eat every day, it is expected that the incidence of bowel cancer by increasing now seven of the 100 people who receive it.It is a sad thought, right? One or two pigs in blankets can cost lives conveyor hours. And you know what? I remember that I knew. I'll have a glass of bubbly goat to take my mind ...