{"id":509,"date":"2025-09-11T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eqht.net\/509-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:10:11","slug":"509-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eqht.net\/?page_id=509","title":{"rendered":"Red meat \u2018most perfect food\u2019 for humans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Red meat \u2018most perfect food\u2019 for humans, closely followed by milk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fginsight.com\/abi-kay\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fginsight.com\/news\/news\">News<\/a>11 Nov 2019<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fginsight.com\/abi-kay\">&nbsp;Abi\nKay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red meat is the \u2018most perfect food\u2019 for humans, closely followed\nby milk, according to a leading nutrition expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abi took up the post of chief reporter at\nFarmers Guardian after a stint working for the NFU as part of its government\naffairs team. <br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fginsight.com\/abi-kay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Load More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red\nmeat \u2018most perfect food\u2019 for humans, closely followed by milk, says nutrition\nexpert <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Robert Pickard,\nemeritus professor of neurobiology at Cardiff University, said the agricultural\nindustry had been \u2018the butt of an enormous journalistic effort to sell copy by\nproducing totally indefensible headlines\u2019 about red meat causing cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof Pickard also hit out\nat the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) report which claimed\nprocessed meats \u2018definitely\u2019 cause cancer and lean red meat \u2018probably\u2019 causes\ncancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at NFU Cymru\u2019s\nannual conference in Llandrindod Wells last week (November 7), he said: \u201cThere\nis not a single proven case of eating red meat or processed meat actually\ncausing a cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fginsight.com\/news\/news\/ex-defra-chief-scientist-ubnder-fire-after-calling-for-cut-in-red-meat-production-97168\">Ex-Defra chief\nscientist under fire after calling for cut in red meat production<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fginsight.com\/news\/news\/government-must-match-fund-red-meat-marketing-spend-says-nfu-95347\">Government must\nmatch-fund red meat marketing spend, says NFU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fginsight.com\/news\/news\/processor-blames-bad-press-around-red-meat-for-beef-price-crisis-96193\">Processor blames bad\npress around red meat for beef price crisis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fginsight.com\/news\/news\/red-meat-has-no-link-to-cancer-and-reports-which-suggest-so-are-weak-94624\">Red meat has no link to\ncancer and reports which suggest so are \u2018weak\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis [is not] objective\nscientific analysis. This has been put together by people who have their own\nagenda, which is nothing to do with the nutritional benefit of red meat and red\nmeat products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cLook at the listing into which they put\nprocessed meat. You have got arsenic, you have got diesel exhausts, you have\neven got plutonium. No serious scientist would do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you feed plutonium to\nlaboratory mice, they will develop tumours, sometimes within days. After about\nthree or four weeks, they will all be developing tumours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you feed processed\nmeat to the same laboratory mice, they will just get fat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;Complaint<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof Pickard went on to\nsay he has not had a single complaint from the authors of the report, despite\npublicly criticising it in the years since its publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut I have had lots of\nletters from other people in the scientific community, and practising doctors,\nsaying \u2018thank you very much for putting the record straight\u2019,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cRed meat is the\nmost nutritious food you have available on your plate. It contains all the\nminerals, all the vitamins, all the protein amino acids which are required in the\ncorrect ratio and all the fats which are required in the correct ratio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is the most perfect\nfood for a human being, and coming close behind it is milk. Babies build their\nentire bodies getting nothing but milk for months and months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red meat \u2018most perfect food\u2019 for humans, closely followed by milk News11 Nov 2019&nbsp;Abi Kay Red meat is the \u2018most perfect food\u2019 for humans, closely followed by milk, according to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eqht.net\/?page_id=509\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red meat \u2018most perfect food\u2019 for humans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","inspiro_hide_title":false,"inspiro_hide_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":738,"url":"https:\/\/eqht.net\/?page_id=738","url_meta":{"origin":509,"position":0},"title":"Meat","author":"Info@EQHT.net","date":"2025-09-16","format":false,"excerpt":"Red Meat Red Meat Benefits Red meat \u2018most perfect food\u2019 for humans","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":510,"url":"https:\/\/eqht.net\/?page_id=510","url_meta":{"origin":509,"position":1},"title":"Myth&#8217;s told by PETA","author":"Info@EQHT.net","date":"2025-09-11","format":false,"excerpt":"A common myth told by PETA and is ignorantly repeated today is the claim that humans are unable to digest meat and it therefore putrefies in the colon, causing disease.\u00a0 I believe I may have a special insight on this one based on my unique experiences.\u00a0 We have probably all\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":512,"url":"https:\/\/eqht.net\/?page_id=512","url_meta":{"origin":509,"position":2},"title":"Red Meat","author":"Info@EQHT.net","date":"2025-09-11","format":false,"excerpt":"by Chris MasterjohnRed meat has been maligned for decades as an artery-clogging source of cholesterol and saturated fat. 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