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Re:Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environ... by s_dev on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:55AM (#20867830)
It contains nicotene -- a well known carcinogenic.
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Re:Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environ... by EpicEng on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:01PM (#20867899)
Nicotine is not, in any way, a "well known carcinogen".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/

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Re:Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environ... by s_dev on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:14PM (#20868068)
From the abstract of your paper:

Recent studies have shown that nicotine can affect several important steps in the development of cancer

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Re:Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environ... by EpicEng on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:57PM (#20868558)
Also from the paper

>At present, it is not possible to draw a conclusion whether nicotine itself may act as a complete carcinogen

If you're going to quote it, include the bits that don't agree with you as well. The paper basically says "it may affect the role of other cancer causing agents, but we're not sure yet. We cannot say that nicotine is, in and of itself, a carcinogen"

Also reach back in time 30 minutes and remember that you claimed nicotine is, by itself, a "well known carcinogen", which is false.

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Re:Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environ... by brodouevencode on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:58AM (#20867862)
I'm not so sure that's the case: https://cancer-code-europe.iarc.fr/index.php/en/ecac-12-ways...
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Re:Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environ... by slimed on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:59AM (#20867882)
Nicotine does not cause cancer.
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