Recent headlines declare again that red meat is bad.All red meat, though processed more than unprocessed meat.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-red-meat-20120313,0,565423.story I'm the last person who would advocate or defend meat consumption, but it's obvious to me that the study's general conclusion is totally wrong. Certain native peoples lived for centuries on diets heavy in red meat and were fine.
But they ate meat from healthy, grass-fed animals which had an entirely different nutritional composition than the tainted meat that comes from diseased, drugged and tortured animals raised in industrial concentration camp farms.
Here's an article that makes that case in much more detail:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/is-red-meat-or-fake-meat-killing-us.html