I thought pre-cook and/or treated meats meant processed in terms of the general consumer. Raw cuts of steak, pork loins and drumsticks isnt typically considered

I thought pre-cook and/or treated meats meant processed in terms of the general consumer. Raw cuts of steak, pork loins and drumsticks isnt typically considered processed for the consumer. From what I know, you only call cut up raw meat "processed" if you handled the full carcass, like a butcher. But like you said, it's the additives that we really think of as "processed". If you home make sausage with just ground meat and pork casing is that "processed" if you didnt add nitrates or edta? Technically yes, but that's where I think clear cut definitions need to be in place.