Does Red Meat Cause Cancer?

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I try to eat grass fed, grass finished as much as I have a stick out. If you do grass fed, you might as soy-viet. What causes cancer is damage to oxidative phosphorylation. So can eating red meat damage the mitochondria in a particular population of cells? But I can't see how we evolved to eat red meat. We kill elephants, we kill anything that walked a crawl, we eat it.

Thomas Seyfried, PhD is a preeminent cancer expert and professor in the department of biology at Boston College. He received a PhD in 1976 in genetics and neurochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, followed by a postdoctoral degree from Yale University in the field of neurochemistry and genetics.

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