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Bacon and ham sold in the UK should carry cigarette-style labels warning that chemicals in them cause bowel cancer, scientists say.

Their demand comes as they criticise successive British governments for doing “virtually nothing” to reduce the risk from nitrites in the decade since they were found to definitely cause cancer.

Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.

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[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i want the nitrates please, it tastes hell of a lot better.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’ve gotten pizza with “uncured” bacon, ham, or sausage before. I’m not sure if the meat has no flavor or if it was the pizza tha had no flavor.

However I expect the pizza itself was worse for me than those specific ingredients

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because My grandfather cures meats without nitrates and it just tastes as good

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At one point I looked into making jerky. It’s reasonable for people to do their own.

The big question is whether to use curing salts. They’re necessary if you want to be shelf stable. If you don’t use them, you need to refrigerate your jerky and it has limited shelf life, like any other food. However in that scenario, you have the advantage of fresher ingredients with a quality of your selection that may make up for it.

You don’t get that from store bought uncured meat

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

yeah my grandfather uses somthing else for curing his meats. he used to use curing salts but he stopped using that after the doctor told him to stop consuming so much nitrates and tbh it tastes the same to me but i know that it needs to be vaccumed packed so it doesnt spoil, and in the fridge, but thats a better trade off for nitrates.