Char on a steak contains heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. These compounds, in extremely high doses, in isolated laboratory conditions, in rats, have shown carcinogenic effects.
The doses used in those studies, scaled to human equivalents, would require you to consume the charred outer crust of approximately several thousand steaks per day for the rest of your life.
Humans have been cooking meat over open fire for somewhere between two hundred thousand and a million years. The crust on a roasted joint, the bark on a brisket, the blackened edges of a chop pulled from the embers: this is the food our species was built around.
If burnt-edge beef caused cancer at the rate the headlines imply, we would not be here to read the headlines.
Eat the steak.
Enjoy the crust.
@PGATUOR The PGA tour is pathetically boring to watch ever since LIV took the best characters. I dont blame him one bit! They should be paying him a sign on bonus!! Give the whiners a nice double face slap!
@Jimbo4881113333@Mike_kim714 thats what I was thinking.. pretty sure Phil was trying for years to negotiate better benefits for tour players before he found another path..