Meat, Cancer, Fear and Carcinogenic Headlines

The bottom line? There are plenty of reasons to reduce consumption of processed and red meats — salt, fat, cruelty to livestock, methane, deforestation, water waste… A slight increase in cancer risk may be one of them, as well.
But much of the caricatured quick coverage, with help from the World Health Organization, buried any sense of nuance.
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Yesterday, Yong (appropriately) sharply criticized the cancer registry for failing to note this vital point: “These classifications are based on strength of evidence not degree of risk.”