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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[6ppc]

And Ham, and Pepperoni!

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

The purpose of these studies are to keep a populace worried and pleading for the government to “so something.” We get locally made sausage, some hunter friends provide us with venison, and are enjoying pizza and beer this evening. WHO cares, but we don't care about WHO.....

[Nik Naym]

What a load of crap. Rust inhibitor? I stopped reading right there. Fear porn much? Meats are full of dihydrogen monoxide too. That stuff can kill ya!

[Jane Long]

Who funded the study, CAIR? They seem to have exclusively targeted pork products.

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Pork products are the ones primarily CURED.

Commercially cured means chemicals and other additives that are NOT natural.

And, just for more tasty fun .... most pigs raised for commercial slaughter, meaning just about ALL pork you buy at the grocery store ... have been given the Sequivity mNRA jabs, since 2018.

What’s not to love???

[PilotDave]

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. The best we can hope for is that it kills you slowly. Pass the bacon.

[fruser1]

no safe level

So if you've ever had a slice of pepperoni pizza, you're a dead man walkin.

In fact, you'll probably drop dead tomorrow, so run out and have a blast, blowin all the cash you can carry, max out your cards, and take out the trash you despise with whatever ammunition you've got!

[TermLimits4All]

I’ve made it to my late 50’s with all that garbage I ate. So far so good. Although I guess I should recant that statement in the health aspect. I’ll be speaking with a surgeon on a colon surgery, not cancer, Wednesday.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Let me rephrase my statement. If that were true everybody in Georgia would be dying of cancer. 😀

[Salvey]

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. I’ll continue eating bacon and pepperoni until the next report comes out stating that they are highly beneficial for our health and we should be eating more of them.

[bertmerc1]

World Health Organization (WHO) - never mind.

[ConservaTexan]

It’s not the meat that “causes” cancer. It’s the “processing.” How many food companies using these carcinogens are owned by pharmaceutical companies?

[TermLimits4All]

That feed cost would have to be pretty high for that. We go to the local butcher shop for our bacon, beef and chicken. No hormones, grass fed and I have no clue on the bacon. Expensive but I’m supporting my local economy too.

[Mermaid Girl]

Gotta die someway. They can have my bacon when they can pry it from my cold, greasy hands.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Horrible! I bet they even used hydrogen disulfide to make this stuff.

[Magic Fingers]

https://n1o1.com/about-dr-nathan-bryan/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22464105/

Abstract

This process of “curing” food is a long practice that dates back thousands of years long before refrigeration or food safety regulations. Today food safety and mass manufacturing are dependent upon safe and effective means to cure and preserve foods including meats.

Nitrite remains the most effective curing agent to prevent food spoilage and bacterial contamination. Despite decades of rigorous research on its safety and efficacy as a curing agent, it is still regarded by many as a toxic undesirable food additive.

However, research within the biomedical science community has revealed enormous therapeutic benefits of nitrite that is currently being developed as novel therapies for conditions associated with nitric oxide (NO) insufficiency. Much of the same biochemistry that has been understood for decades in the meat industry has been rediscovered in human physiology.

This review will highlight the fundamental biochemistry of nitrite in human physiology and highlight the risk benefit evaluation surrounding nitrite in food and meat products. Foods or diets enriched with nitrite can have profound positive health benefits.

[dfwgator]

If loving bacon is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This guy seems to post some rather questionable things.

[GreatRoad]

What about my sliced turkey???

[unread]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrite#Toxicity

[FlatulusMaximus]

I HAVE cancer, but refuse to give up bacon entirely! (Mine is from smoking, not from dietary factors.) Seriously, I have virtually eliminated deli meats and cut back on bacon. But never eat it again? Never!