AMIF statement: Latest report on unhealthy meat consumption is inaccurate, too
The American Meat Institute has issued a statement refuting the claims from a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The report claims that eating large amounts of red meat can increase the risk of dying from heart disease or cancer by as much as 21 percent.
The statement reads: “A new study in today's Archives of Internal Medicine tries to predict the future risk of death from cancer or cardiovascular disease by relying on notoriously unreliable self-reporting about what was eaten and obtuse methods to apply statistical analysis to the data. This imprecise approach is like relying on consumers' personal characterization of their driving habits in prior years in determining their likelihood of having an accident that kills them in the future. It has a high likelihood of giving erroneous conclusions.