I thought I would ring in on this thread and give my two cents. Being a vegetarian significantly reduces your chances of developing cancers. This is not only because cooked vegetables contain far less carcinogens than cooked meat, but because the cattle produced for inductrial nations is usually laden heavily with sterroids and hormones, which, when consumed, are often absorbed into the body. These growth hormones used on cattle supress the immune system and encourage weight gain, both of which encourage cancer development.
Cattle is expencive, and in developing nations, the consumtion of meat is not as prevalent as in industrial nations. I would guess that reduced meat consumption accounts for at least part of the lower cancer rates in developing nations. Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
