Sodium Nitrate: Cancer in the refrigerator

[birdgirl73]

I think he just had his zeros off. Or he could have been referring to a different survey than the one I was with the 67%/20,000.

By any measure, the important news here is that that sodium nitrite stuff will dramatically increase people's risk of pancreatic cancer. So say sayonara to sausages!

[SinisterK]

Sorry, double post.

[SinisterK]

Thats ridiculous, why would they feed us that knowing it's dangers? I just don't understand.

[birdgirl73]

That is a bit of a mystery, isn't it? But that's the way of the food industry, like many others (such as the drug industry). Profit is the highest motivation, not the health of humanity.

Although that study establishing the link to pancreatic cancer came out in 2005, experts have known that nitrites are unhealthy for decades, easily since the 1960s. The food industry, and, in America, the FDA, sees more benefit in preserving meats and giving them an attractive red color than in protecting people.

[slowthestone]

ehh....least this way people won't turn grey and funky looking when they die.

They'll maintain a nice pinkish hue to their dead flesh.


This sort of story was rcently in the news...major grocery chains were found to have the crap in their meats.

Its a stupid thing anyway...soon as oxygen is gone...meat begins to turn. And as soon as its chewed and swallowed...its rotting in your gut while its digested.

ffs....nothing is safe to eat anymore...not even bearded clams!!!

[Mr.N]

But I really like hotdogs and sasuages.... what to do..