This month the World Health Organisation announced that eating red meat is an activity fraught with risk, and shoppers in the UK at least are taking no chances. Three weeks after the WHO announced that processed meats are on par with cigarettes as a “convincing” cause of cancer, British sales of packaged sausages were down by about 16 per cent. But the WHO overstates its case, in a way that could even create risks of its own.
上月底,世界卫生组织(WHO)宣布,食用红肉是一种充满风险的活动,而至少英国消费者是不肯冒任何风险的。世卫组织宣布加工肉制品和香烟一样是“有足够证据”证明的致癌物后,3个星期过去,英国包装肉肠的销售下降了约16%。但世卫组织夸大了论据,这种做法本身甚至会带来风险。
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