The risk of nitrites and nitrates in bacon

And in other news, "nitrate free" bacon sold in the US isn't actually nitrate free; "Ever since the “war on nitrates” of the 1970s, US consumers have been more savvy about nitrates than those in Europe, and there is a lot of “nitrate-free bacon” on the market. The trouble, as Jill Pell remarks, is that most of the bacon labelled as nitrate-free in the US “isn’t nitrate-free”. It’s made with nitrates taken from celery extract, which may be natural, but…

Every time another post comes up about this I hate to the bearer of bad (good?) news, but the entire concept is predicated on the fact that it increases risk of colorectal cancer by 18%. That doesn't mean your chance of cancer is 18%, that means your chance of that type of cancer goes from below 5% (4.3% for men, and 4% for women)[1] to <5.07%. A change of at the most .9% difference risk. Colorectal is also one of…

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>The real scandal of bacon, however, is that it didn’t have to be anything like so damaging to our health. The part of the story we haven’t been told – including by the WHO – is that there were always other ways to manufacture these products that would make them significantly less carcinogenic. >The fact that this is so little known is tribute to the power of the meat industry, which has for the past 40 years been engaged in…