"processed meat" is a meaningless term. Here's how to make a smoke sausage: you kill a pig grind its meat add salt and maybe pepper or other flavo

"processed meat" is a meaningless term. Here's how to make a smoke sausage: you kill a pig grind its meat add salt and maybe pepper or other flavorings made from plant put in a casing smoke it This matches the definition of "processed meat". The other way to make sausage, the industrial process, involves adding a bunch of chemicals to make it more shelf stable and god knows what else. It's the chemicals that are harmful, not the meat or salt.