An advertising campaign run by the Vegetarian Society urging people to give up meat to avoid cancer has been condemned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The campaign featured pictures of bodies scarred by operations to remove colon, stomach, prostate and breast tumors.

The Vegetarian Society argues that the campaign followed studies by the World Cancer Research Fund in which it was recommended that consumers should cut back on the amount of red meat in their diet.

As the experts continue their struggle to identify the causes of cancer and the meat industry reels from the impact of the BSE crisis - Are we living in a society where it is better to be a vegetarian?

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