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Wonder why all the Mesothelioma Ads on TV all of a sudden for something you rarely heard about before they aired?

Each year 2,500 -4,000 patients in the U.S. are diagnosed. It has a long latency (inactive) period of anywhere between 15 – 50 years. As many as 8 million people in the U.S. have already been exposed to asbestos. Most victims die within 18 months of diagnosis. Mortality is swift not because the cancer is fast-growing but because it usually is far advanced by the time it is detected. Over half a million asbestos and mesothelioma injury claims have been filed to date. This means a lot of swift $$ for injury victims and/or families (IMHO rightfully so in most cases) & their lawyers.

Lawyers would have a much harder case to bear against big livestock, cattle, poultry and dairy companies for offering cancer-causing, heart clogging, stroke inducing products and whose consumption per capita is on the rise; and whose latency period lasts a (shortened) lifetime. But I think it would be worth the fight - look how long it took to win against big tobacco.

Then imagine the TV Ads for all you carnivores?