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Eh, we know for a fact the nitrates in bacon cause cancer, but how many people stopped eating it?
by grecy 3y ago
Eh, we know for a fact the nitrates in bacon cause cancer, but how many people stopped eating it?
- 4ad 3y agoNitrates in bacon are essential for making bacon. Aspartame is not essential for making coke.
- ben_w 3y agoBacon isn't an essential food, at least not for humans. You don't need to eat it at all. Likewise cola, of course.
- pxeger1 3y agoYou can buy nitrite-free bacon - doesn't that mean it's not essential?
- Ariarule 3y ago"No nitrates or nitrites added" bacon still has nitrites as they are generated by the production method: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos/5734-nitrate-free-bacon https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos...
- chiefalchemist 3y agoAlso the number of ppl having bacon at every meal is small. The number of ppl drinking diet soda - and consuming diet anything else - multiple times per day is significantly larger, at least in the First World.
- 4ad 3y agoIn the third world, far more people drink diet soda than eat bacon. In the first world, I wouldn't be so sure.
- Timpy 3y agoUnfortunately I know people who drink diet coke like it's water. If somebody ate bacon at that volume they wouldn't live long enough for cancer to get them.
- ben_w 3y agoFirst time I was in California, visiting partner and their family, their mom saw the California Cancer Warning of Doom label on a restaurant, and wanted to know why they couldn't simply not allow the substances known to cause cancer. One of those substances is alcohol, and this place sold drinks. Also she was a smoker at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_list_of_chemicals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_list...