The UK meat industry uses the same PR tricks as big tobacco and oil companies—like saying the science isn't clear or that it's your choice—to avoid government rules that might hurt their profits.

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Meat, money and messaging: How the environmental and health harms of red and processed meat consumption are framed by the meat industry.

Cross-Sectional Study

2022 May

The study found that meat industry groups in the UK use the same kinds of misleading messages as tobacco or oil companies, like saying the science isn't settled or that eating meat is healthy and green, to stop new rules that could hurt their profits.

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Meat, money and messaging: How the environmental and health harms of red and processed meat consumption are framed by the meat industry.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102234

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