How Seriously Are you Taking the Evidence of Health Issues?

In response to the publication of studies showing that eating meat is a cause of colon cancer, John Morgan, president of Riverside Meat Packers, California, announced on May 7th 1976:

“We shouldn’t jump to conclusions and do something foolish just because some study seems to say something that we know from common sense isn’t true. Beef is the backbone of the American Diet and it always has been. To think that meat of all things causes cancer is ridiculous.” (1)

On March 13th 1982 John Morgan died of cancer of the colon. (2)



(1) Reported in Riverside Herald, Riverside, California in Article entitled “Meat-packer defends beef”. May 8th 1976


(2) Obituary column page C-11 in Riverside Herald, Riverside, California March 14th 1982