Braai-mad South Africa takes WHO meat warning with pinch of salt

Digesting news this week that the World Health Organization (WHO) had classified beef, lamb and pork as “probable” carcinogens, South Africans said they would take the risk rather than turn their backs on their nation’s social centrepiece. Afrikaans for barbecue, the open-air braai took root among Dutch settlers in the 1600s but over the next three centuries spread across South Africa’s many races as the way to eat and entertain with friends and family. “It’s the one thing that all South Africans love to do, that binds them together – to sit around the fire and braai meat,” said Jan “Braai” Scallens, founder of a campaign to transform a Sept. 24 Heritage Day holiday into National Braai Day.
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