Meat Industry Reacts to New Cancer Guidelines Calling Processed Meat Carcinogenic

The industry acknowledges that the most recent international cancer prevention guidelines now urge people to avoid processed meat.  The challenge for the meat industry, the response outlines, is to find a way to maintain the consumption of these convenience products while somehow not damaging public health. We’re still not sure what in processed meat is so carcinogenic, but the most probable educated guess for explaining the damaging effect of processed meats involves heme iron, along with nitrosamine and free radical formation, ultimately resulting in carcinogenic DNA damage.
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