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Yet Another Reason to Not Eat Beef: Cancer-Causing Mutations

2 monthes ago   |   By DNA Science

I stopped eating beef 5 years ago, following a trip to Costa Rica just days after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Our daughter had been urging us to give up red meat for more than a decade, but a lecture and slide show on the effect of cattle ranching on Costa Rica's spectacular biodiversity, right after my diagnosis, finally did the trick. So compelling were the environmental and human health reasons to no longer eat beef that I barely dwelled on the obvious animal cruelty aspect.
Back home, I wrote about another anti-beef argument here at DNA Science : a sugar on our cell surfaces...
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