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Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs

posted by janrinok on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:27AM   
from the end-of-the-world-is-nigh dept.

AnonTechie writes:

The World Health Organisation is to list processed meat among the most cancer-causing substances, alongside arsenic and asbestos. Fresh red meat is also due to join the 'encyclopaedia of carcinogens' and is likely to be ranked as only slightly less dangerous than the preserved products.

The rulings, revealed to the Mail by a well-placed source, will send shock waves through the farming industry and the fast food sector. They could also lead to new dietary guidelines and warning labels on packs of bacon. The classifications, by the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer, come amid mounting concern that meat fuels the disease which claims more than 150,000 lives a year in the UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3285490/Bacon-burgers-sausages-cancer-risk-say-world-health-chiefs-Processed-meats-added-list-substances-likely-cause-disease-alongside-cigarettes-asbestos.html

[Also Covered By]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/23/who_bacon_shocker/

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• The Daily Mail and cancer (Score: 4, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday October 25 2015, @10:13AM

  by wonkey_monkey (279) on Sunday October 25 2015, @10:13AM (#254299) Homepage

  C'mon, it's the Daily Mail. They basically make their money alternating Princess Diana conspiracy theories and "X causes cancer!"

  And anyway, even if those things do increase your risk of cancer... it's baaacooon!

  Life is 100% fatal, in the end, and bacon is one of the few things that make it bearable.

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