Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Decades’ worth of research proves that chemicals used to make bacon do cause cancer. So how did the meat industry convince us it was safe?

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Clare Longrigg, deputy editor of the Guardian’s Long Read section, introduces three of her favourite long reads from 2018. They’re all on the theme of “Discovering the Familiar” – things we use every day without considering the extraordinary impact they have on us.

Today: bacon. Decades’ worth of research proves that chemicals used to make bacon do cause cancer. So how did the meat industry convince us it was safe?

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2BGtf3T

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