Meat cancer and cheese addiction

“WHO links processed meat to cancer—and vegetarians get smug on Twitter.” Interesting headline, CNN, but if the World Health Organization just determined a major part of many people's diet contributes to getting a serious disease, your angle is to take a potshot at vegetarians for their lifestyle decisions being validated? Check out the WHO's Q&A on its findings at www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en, but the gist is processed meats—anything preserved—and red meat contain carcinogens. Yikes. So everyone's favorite meat-topped pizza falls into that category, too, but in a recent food-addiction study reported on by the Los Angeles Times, pizza was found to be the most addictive: “The more processed and fatty the food, the more it was associated with addictive eating behaviors.” And this one is for the “smug vegetarians”: because cheese contains casein (a protein), it releases casomorphins, an opiate. Yeah, like morphine. And now all that's left are smug vegans.