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(30,829 posts) Wed Oct 29, 2025, 09:31 AM Oct 29

Why are you still eating bacon, ham and sausages? [View all]

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Why are you still eating bacon, ham and sausages?
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by Professor Brian Green, Belfast, October 29, 2025, 9:56:11 AM

This month, new European Union rules limiting the use of nitrites in processed meats came into force — a long-awaited and welcome advance in food safety.

The science linking nitrite-cured meats to cancer is more compelling than ever.

The EU’s decision to reduce permitted levels should be recognised as an important act of public-health leadership. But it should not be the end of the story.

The evidence shows that any exposure to these additives carries avoidable risk.
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https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/arc0c13512

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Why are you still eating bacon, ham and sausages? [View all] littlemissmartypants Oct 29 OP

Feel free to crosspost in the Lounge justaprogressive Oct 29 #1

Well, since brainworm-damaged Bobby is focused on windmills (how poetic), only the extreme increased prices hlthe2b Oct 29 #2

Preservatives to kill bacteria to fatten their wallets, bucolic_frolic Oct 29 #3

Could always buy uncured but its expensive Historic NY Oct 29 #4

Because they taste good? Justice Brandeis Oct 29 #5

That's my answer too. FoxNewsSucks Oct 29 #8

Haven't eaten pork or beef in 25 years. Ritabert Oct 29 #6

If we stop eating them, will we live forever? PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 29 #7

We eat JustAnotherGen Oct 29 #9

Sometimes I wish I could be blissfully ignorant about what might be killing me Redleg Oct 29 #10

Local farmers. legallyblondeNYC Oct 29 #11

probably lunchmeats too... FirstLight Oct 29 #12

Nitrate free options. legallyblondeNYC Oct 29 #13

I don't. I make my own with seitan or tempeh... buzzycrumbhunger Oct 29 #14

I live in Germany Old Crank Oct 29 #15