Hi Crazy4cats,
In regards to white meat vs red and the advice for humans to limit red meat consumption I’m assuming you are referring to recent reports of an increased cancer risk in people correlated to red meat consumption.
There is only a few publications I’m aware of that looked at this risk in dogs and a higher incidence of cancer was correlated with red meat consumption. “Other significant risk factors were a high intake of red meat, especially beef and pork, and a low intake of chicken. …. In the multivariate analysis, older age, obesity at 1 year of age, and a high red meat intake were independently and significantly associated with the risk of developing mammary tumor and dysplasias.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9595373
“a habitual diet based on home-made food (rich in beef and pork, and poor in chicken) as opposed to commercial food, are also associated with the occurrence of mammary tumours.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10976622
Both of these were likely pulled from the same data as they have authors in common.
Really though I think it is far far too early to know. This was only one cancer type that was evaluated and like any study each has strengths and weaknesses.
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