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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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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean processed meat sure.

But you can pull bacon from my cold, dead, cancerous hands.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago (26 children)

Who cares anymore, life is so depressing and the future so bleak that it doesn't matter. By the time the average person will get cancer from bacon we'll be dead from fascism.

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 6 points 2 days ago

That's the attitude! 😁👍

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This got me wondering: If bananas are radioactive, and radiation can mutate cells and cause cancer... Can bananas cause cancer? 🤔

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Perhaps, but the fiber cleans that bacon sandwich out of your colon quicker.

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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 14 points 3 days ago (6 children)

might as well just slap cancer warnings on everything these days. Launch a massive banner to orbit so everywhere can see the cancer warning for the sun. Doctors need to hold a cancer warning sign when a baby is being birthed so it'll be the first thing they see because you can literally just get cancer for simply living.

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

We may as well flatten the whole planet to eliminate the risk of falling down stairs.

I hate how far people go to safety pad the whole planet when an ounce of personality responsibility is all that's needed.

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[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Putting nitrates in the same category as fucking asbestos is literally insane.

It's like putting a Glock and a 10,000kg bomb in the same category, it's utterly disingenuous.

[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (9 children)

But everyone knows not to and therefore doesn't go near asbestos. Almost anyone who eats meat eats bacon.

literally everything has a prop 65 warning on it

Maybe stop putting things in stuff that mean that they require this warning?

But what do I know...

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[–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The category just means that there is scientific proof of carcinogenicity. The WHO states (somewhere) that it’s not to be taken to mean that bacon is as dangerous as tobacco. Of course, that’s what everyone thinks they mean, so maybe they should work on their messaging

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

That's what I'm saying, putting nitrates next to hardcore carcinogens like asbestos makes the hardcore carcinogens look less harmful than they actually are.

They need to differentiate the levels of harm or else it's just another warning that people will ignore because it's on literally everything.

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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

WARNING: Bacon contains chemicals known to the UK Government to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

So it’s fine if I just don’t eat the bacon in the UK? Then I am safe!

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

If you eat in France that’s fine

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sausages are OK right? Right?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Depends on what you are doing with the sausages.

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Wrapping them in bacon...

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Boofing them

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