I really take issue with studies like this that put meat and meat products together.

Unprocessed meat is what humans what have been eating for hundreds of thousand of years.

Meat products are commercial new inventions and contain stuff like preservatives, volume expanders, flavor enhancers and coloring agents. They also typically contain added sugars, sodium, malto dextrin, corn syrup.

One can't seriously put these together and call them the same, make a study where participants might be eating SPAM and then conclude that "red meat is bad".

Given the choice between "Domino's vegetarian pizza", "IKEAs meatballs" and "steak that is fried,salted and peppered" which one do you think will be the healthiest option?