{"id":80721,"date":"2025-10-24T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80721"},"modified":"2025-10-24T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:56:44","slug":"scientists-demand-ban-on-mass-produced-bacon-after-54000-cases-of-cancer-are-linked-to-the-nitrates-rich-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/scientists-demand-ban-on-mass-produced-bacon-after-54000-cases-of-cancer-are-linked-to-the-nitrates-rich-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists demand ban on mass-produced bacon after 54,000 cases of cancer are linked to the nitrates-rich meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/10\/24\/16\/103289675-15224175-image-a-1_1761318653003.jpg\" alt=\"Experts warn that failure to ban nitrites from bacon and ham despite sounding alarm a decade ago has cost thousands of lives\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are calling for a ban on supermarket bacon and ham after the chemicals used in their production were linked to more than 50,000 bowel\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-8c67bbd0-b0f5-11f0-8c87-8d56384cb80e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/cancer\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a><\/span> cases. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-15224175\/experts-demand-bacon-BANNED-colon-bowel-cancer-nitrates.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Scientists are calling for a ban on supermarket bacon and ham after the chemicals used in their production were linked to more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bowel-cancer.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80722,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80721\/revisions\/80722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}