Gli scienziati chiedono avvertenze sul cancro su pancetta e prosciutto venduti nel Regno Unito | Cancro
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/24/scientists-demand-cancer-warnings-bacon-ham-uk
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Gli scienziati chiedono avvertenze sul cancro su pancetta e prosciutto venduti nel Regno Unito | Cancro
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/24/scientists-demand-cancer-warnings-bacon-ham-uk
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On social media, we see the far right blaming the increase in cancer cases on COVID vaccines with fake news.
On the one hand, this reduces the number of people getting vaccinated and increases profits for private companies in the healthcare sector.
On the other hand, it hides things like this. It’s the same thing they do when they deny climate change in order to continue polluting or save their real estate and tourism investments.
They are a danger to humanity and its existence. They are leading us to extinction.
For anyone wondering who these “scientists” are that supposedly made the big demand. That influential group consists of around four individuals. Two are actually named in the article: Chris Elliott (Professor of Food Safety at Queen’s University Belfast) and Denis Corpet (Professor of Food Safety and Nutrition at Toulouse University). The other half apparently didn’t care enough to be named by The Guardian.
I’m Spanish, searching about if Spanis ham (Serrano an Iberian) had it and yes.
“Yes, cured ham (including Serrano and Iberian ham) and bacon sold in Spain generally contain nitrites (E-249 or E-250).
Nitrites and, sometimes, nitrates (E-251 or E-252) are used as additives in meat products. “
I wish i could find the report from, uh, not the WHO, but a similar institution in Belgium about 15 years ago declaring all cured meats “unfit for human consumption”.
Back in the day you’d die from food poisoning long before nitrate-related cancer if curing meat wasn’t invented. It makes sense that we have an affinity for the taste of cured meat since that used to be an easy sign it’s safe to eat, vs rotting meat.
Isn’t that a blow against religion ?
No
[https://www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IARC_MONO_classification_2023_updated.png](https://www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IARC_MONO_classification_2023_updated.png)
Basically processed red meat is in group 2A (limited evidence in humans, confirmed in test animals) , adjusted for human consumption , if I remember correctly you would need to eat cca 1kg of bacon a day ( nitrate daily load) to have an increase in occurrence of cancer (like in the test animals)
On the other hand ALL alcohol containing drinks are in group 1A ( sufficient evidence in humans ), if they want to label processed meats the same way as tobacco, they will need to do it first for all alcohol drinks.