Bacon and ham sold in the UK should carry cigarette-style labels warning that chemicals in them cause bowel cancer, scientists say.

Their demand comes as they criticise successive British governments for doing “virtually nothing” to reduce the risk from nitrites in the decade since they were found to definitely cause cancer.

Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.

  • nickiam2@aussie.zone
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    14 hours ago

    Oh maybe just a small country with little influence in the world called the United States of America. Go ahead an try to tell me there’s no fascism here

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      14 hours ago

      oh no i don’t think its fascist that is a reach, but i mean the US has always been messed up so its on brand.