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11.05am 13th September

News Release: MEAT "KILLS MORE THAN SMOKING"



Meat eating may kill more Britons every year than smoking. That's the
conclusion of the author of THE REALEAT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VEGETARIAN LIVING,
launched today as part of the V-DAY campaign to promote the vegetarian
lifestyle. Author Peter Cox, whose previous best-sellers are "Linda
McCartney's Home Cooking" and "Why You Don't Need Meat", lambasts both the meat
industry and the medical establishment at the press conference scheduled for
11.05am in the Rutherford Room, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre,
Westminster.


"Smoking kills 111,000 people every year", says Cox.[1] "But that falls into
second place behind the 134,000 annual deaths which the evidence suggests could
be prevented by a vegetarian diet".

Cox's calculations make use of recent scientific results produced by the Oxford
study into vegetarianism [2], and a similar project in Germany [3]. Both
studies show that ...