Dr Vernon Coleman’s cancer scare nonsense?

‘As your knife cuts into the meat you could well be cutting into a lump of cancer. The piece of meat you raise to your mouth, on the end of your fork, could well contain a tumour.’

And so this ad for Dr Vernon Coleman’s new book on cancer continues. And while I don’t eat meat, I can’t help wondering what makes Dr Vernon Coleman so keen to hint that eating cancer is a health risk to fear.

After all, any cancer cells will be long dead, and most likely cooked, before you eat them. And is eating cancer any more distasteful than eating testicles or arse?
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1. jams o donnell says:
   

   Vernon Coleman brings together nicely the words “crack” and “pot”.

   I remember flicking through one of his books about why the EU is a rotten idea. One of his reasons to leave was because would force us to have a Catholic monarch.

   January 21st, 2007 at 12:30 pm
2. wade says:
   

   theres nowt wrong with a nice piece of lambs’ testicle…

   January 31st, 2007 at 2:56 pm
3. Andy says:
   

   I reckon the lamb would disagree

   May 29th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
4. Scott says:
   

   YOu may be interested in this - Vernon doesn’t believe he has to respond to ASA enquiries it seems: http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_42600.htm

   May 30th, 2007 at 10:42 am
5. Stephen Newton says:
   

   So the ASA has banned this ad. Thanks to Scott for the link to the adjudication which, amongst other things, supports my comments above.

   May 30th, 2007 at 10:52 am
6. BonBon says:
   

   I think what he’s getting at is that the meat may contain the carcinogen that caused the tumour in the first place, not to mention large amounts of added substances that are not necessarily very healthy…

   October 8th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
7. Stephen Newton says:
   

   You’re very generous BonBon. But Coleman is very clear and doesn’t mention those things. If that is what he’d meant, surely he’d have used that in his defence to the ASA?

   October 8th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
8. whitewog says:
   

   It’s a shame that Vernon Coleman (Dr dropped as he does not practice anymore) has to hide behind his publishing house because. I cannot find a way of contacting him directly. Bonbon this man is a vegetarian and is an outspoken campaigner for his belief but who is he to judge others? With canine teeth and eyes in the front of their head, the human race is designed to be hunter’s gatherers and to eat flesh. Ideology is personal.

   November 13th, 2007 at 7:07 am
9. BonBon says:
   

   yeah, but he does point out that in the long run meat eating will lead to global starvation

   November 21st, 2007 at 7:41 pm
10. Stephen Newton says:
    

    I don’t eat meat myself BonBon, but not because I’m afraid of eating cancer.

    Dr Vernon Coleman’s ad does not argue that ‘in the long run meat eating will lead to global starvation’ as you imply.

    By making nonsense arguments like this, he does the cause no good at all. Just as Heather Mills apparently promoting rats’ milk, does nothing for veganism.

    November 22nd, 2007 at 2:49 pm
11. BonBon says:
    

    your right, it doesn’t he said that in another book, implying that the large amount of crops that are diverted into feeding meat livestock could have been used instead to feed people and that meat is mainly grown because it is more profitable in the West

    January 17th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
12. BonBon says:
    

    apparently what I said in the post before this is spam, I’m not trying to sell anything…what the fudge?

    January 17th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

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