Enjoy the Roast Beast

I had to share...

I love the Christmas movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  I also love roast beast.  (Just passed the nine month mark of eating meat only.)  So when the WHO (World Health Organization) came out with their scare-mongering BS about how meat causes cancer, Georgia Edes MD of Diagnosis Diet decided to write a Dr. Seuss Poem about the roast beast.

I've copied it here, but you really need to go to Dr. Ede's blog and read up.  She's a genius, and one of the people who helped me understand what I had been doing to my body for decades thanks to organizations like WHO.

THE GRINCH, THE WHO, ROAST BEAST & YOU

• Folks the world over liked red meat a lot,
• But the cancer committee in WHO-Ville did not.
• “Those vouching for meat should be guilty of treason!”
• (Please don’t ask why, no one quite knows the reason)
• It may be the way that it’s processed or fried,
• Or the fact that it has so much iron inside.
• But I think that the most likely reason of all
• May have been that WHO brains were two sizes too small.
• Staring down from their towers with judgemental frowns
• At healthy meat-eaters below in their towns
• Feasting on pork chops and luscious roast beast.
• (Roast beast is a feast WHO can’t stand in the least.)
• The WHO hated all meats–especially from cow!
• “We’ve got to stop red meat from coming, but how?”
• Then they got an idea! An awful idea.
• The WHO got a wonderful, awful idea.
• “We know just what we’ll do!” the WHO snickered one day,
• “We’ll shout meat causes cancer, and scare meat away!”
• All we need is some data! The WHO looked around,
• But good data is scarce, there was none to be found.
• Did that stop the WHO? That did not trip them up;
• “We don’t need solid science, we’ll make some stuff up!”
• They puzzled and puzzed till their puzzlers were sore.
• Then the WHO thought of something they thought we’d fall for!
• More than 800 studies they stuffed in a sack;
• “With numbers this big, they won’t dare to attack!”
• But they based their conclusions on just twenty-nine,
• Fifteen of which showed that red meat was just fine!
• But these studies weren’t studies at all, it turned out.
• They were basically guesses that weren’t tested out.
• They thought they could fool folks like you and like me.
• “Correlation’s causation!” WHO shouted with glee.
• Then three or four studies of rats they tossed in.
• (Rats pre-injected with carcinogen!!!)
• They left out the ones showing red meat is good.
• Hoping no one would notice (but you knew I would).
• And three human studies they threw in there, too.
• But these studies were poorly designed (sad but true).
• WHO dares condemn meat based on numbers so wee?
• Three human studies—the audacity!
• Maybe beef, pork and lamb are no cause for alarm.
• Maybe red meat, in fact, doesn’t cause any harm.
• It’s got protein and iron and vitamins too.
• The truth is that red meat is healthy for you!
• This holiday season I hope you won’t fear.
• What the WHO said about meat—the facts are not there!
• May you all enjoy time with your families and feast
• On healthy whole foods and delicious roast beast:)