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Bacon and ham sold in the UK should carry cigarette-style labels warning that chemicals in them cause bowel cancer, scientists say.

Their demand comes as they criticise successive British governments for doing “virtually nothing” to reduce the risk from nitrites in the decade since they were found to definitely cause cancer.

Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.

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[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Putting nitrates in the same category as fucking asbestos is literally insane.

It's like putting a Glock and a 10,000kg bomb in the same category, it's utterly disingenuous.

[–] blave@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Not if the category is “causes cancer” — nor, in the case of your Glock and bomb, if the category is “can kill you”

Context matters

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And fittingly, both of those categories are pretty much a perfectly overlapping venn diagram because they are so overarchingly vague.
Drinking water can kill you, and if it's too hot, it causes cancer.

Therefore "drinking water" is something that can be found it both lists. And so is "not drinking water".

[–] blave@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Well, I’m glad somebody noticed 😉

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