Processed meats including ham, bacon, pepperoni are now definitively linked to cancer (Group 1), and newer 2025–2026 studies reinforce thee is no “safe” level that exists for regular consumption

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“This is a class Group 1 carcinogen. The new study warns there's NO SAFE amount of ham, bacon, or even pepperoni for human consumption”

Processed meats including ham, bacon, pepperoni are now definitively linked to cancer (Group 1), and newer 2025–2026 studies reinforce thee is no “safe” level that exists for regular consumption

“One flimsy cut is lubricated with over 28 bio stabilizers. It's an ammonia-washed paste glued together with synthetic hydrocolloids. That color is then artificially enforced with a corrosive rust inhibitor called sodium nitrite. Group 1 carcinogen that ranks on the same pedestal as a cigarette. Your high-protein sausages were inhumane scanning for plastic residue and inorganic arsenic contamination”

Additional info:

Many processed meats use mechanically separated meat or binders like hydrocolloids (e.g., carrageenan, xanthan gum) for texture, and ammonia treatments occur in some poultry/beef processing (to kill bacteria), it’s not universally in ham/bacon/pepperoni (but it is used)

The study comes from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization (WHO)

IARC evaluated extensive evidence and classified processed meat (including ham, bacon, pepperoni, hot dogs, sausages, etc.) as Group 1—“carcinogenic to humans.” This is the highest level, based on sufficient evidence that it causes colorectal cancer in humans (with some links to stomach cancer).

March 9, 2026

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[Codeflier]

Anti-pork Islamic claptrap.

[SomeCallMeTim]

LOL I concur.

Georgians do love da pork.

[xkaydet65]

great, so since the only pizza i like is sausage or pepperoni, that means no more pizza

Pepperoni? Yes. But Italian sausage, that’s considered fresh , not processed. So you’re still pizza enabled.

[Codeflier]

You think sausage isn’t processed? Ha ha.

[posterchild]

Since i don’t plan on packaging and shipping I skip ‘pink salt’ (sodium nitrate) when I make my own corned beef or polish sausage. When I can i buy hotdogs and bacon from a local amish meat market. The flavor for all without nitrates is so much better.

[Does so]

Bttt...

[Bobbyvotes]

I been eating this stuff since I was age 20. Now at age 86 no cancer.

[EinNYC]

I think the bacon and ham were uncured.

What about TURKEY bacon and cold cuts? I do not eat any red meat. I use ground turkey as my hamburger/meat loaf commodity.

[Pol-92064]

Eat Brussel spouts and live forever! :rolleyes:

[Pol-92064]

Umm, We are all going to die of something sometime, Reggie! Enjoy life as well as you can.

[sunny bonobo]

“If this story is true, then some company needs to step up and process meats without using all those chemicals. Maybe like the Amish do it.

Sure, those meats would be more expensive. But I’m sure there’d be a market for it.”
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They do. Lots of people make unprocessed, uncured bacon. And yes it is more expensive for even less product. For some reason, the uncured bacon is always sold @ 12oz vs 16 and above for regular. And usually cost at least 2 bucks more.

[OrangeHoof]

“We all die of sumpin’”

- Dr. Joycelyn Elders (Clinton’s Surgeon General and huge fan of Eric Clapner)

[Sacajaweau]

if you eat 10 lbs of each every week for 20 years, you might get cancer.

[MikelTackNailer]

Coffee bad, coffee good. Eggs bad, eggs good. Butter bad, butter good. Coconut oil bad, coconut oil good. Avocados bad, avocados good. Red meat bad, red meat good. And so it goes.

This yo-yo thing has been happening for a very long time as this movie about a man waking up in the future makes fun of:

Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or...hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy...precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.

- "Sleeper"(1973)

I think a fairly balanced diet practicing moderation (holidays excluded) is sufficient. WORRYING about this stuff will kill you far faster than food, so I refuse to do that. Genetics are a dice roll you don't get "take-backs" at.

[jimtorr]

The article is describing highly processed trash, not actual bacon ham and pepperoni.

[Axenolith]

Who paid for the study and what’s their agenda?

Connections to anything related to climate activism, PETA/vegetarian activists, lab grown meat pushers, pharma, etc... render anything suggesting lifestyle altering changes as immediately suspect for having a profit, ideology or anti western civilization motivation.

Given the last 5 years I’m more inclined offhand to believe that there’s “something” in processed meats that are going to impair the efficacy of the next bioengineered human culling pathogen before I worry about my colon falling out from eating a few strips of bacon...

;-)

[Getready]

“uncured” meats probably have celery or beet juice added. Those have lots of nitrates(natural) in them. Uncured just means that they didn’t add sodium nitrate crystals to the mix. But anyone eating so called “uncured” meat is getting Nitrates.If processed meats do not have bacterial growth inhibitors those meats will be toxic in a few days.
High nitrate containing vegetables include arugula,spinach, lettuce, celery, beets. You can look up the rest. Read them labels carefully ..
FYI and Freegards

[healy61]

And this was just discovered this month. This month. Hmm. I guess all pork related foods are haram. All. Gonna make you know who happy as a hog in mud.

[ChildOfThe60s]

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situation-has-become-appalling-fake-scientific-papers-push-research-credibility-to-crisis-point

𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧 ‘𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲,’ 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientific-fraud-has-become-industry-alarming-analysis-finds

[BrandtMichaels]

Maybe just could try adding some ‘horse paste’ aka
ivermectin to your diet, cheaper at Tractor Supply too!