Danger in Your Grocery Cart 1: What Is In Your Packaged Meat?

First, get your lunch meat package out, turn it over to the ingredient section, and start reading. Do you see an ingredient called, "sodium nitrite (sodium nitrate)"?

This ingredient is used in the meat industry as a color fixer and as a protection against botulism.  Sodium Nitrite is found in virtually packaged meat like bacon, hot dogs, deli meat, beef jerky, corn beef and more likely your Thanksgiving ham.

When you consume sodium nitrite, it results in creation of "nitrosamines" in your digestive system.  Nitrosamines are highly carcinogenic (cancer causing) chemicals.  Some laboratory researchers use nitrosamines to induce cancer in animals in medical experiments.

The Citizen Petition Seeking Labeling of Nitrate Preserved Hot Dogs for Childhood Cancer Risk stated that:
"Nitrites are widely used as preservatives in hot dogs, besides other meat products. Nitrites combine with amines naturally present in meat to form carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds.  N-nitrosodimethylamine has been identified as nitrite preserved meat products. There is overwhelming evidence on the carcinogenicity of N-nitrosodimethylamine in animal experiments.  Furthermore, epidemiologic evidence has associated N-nitroso carcinogens with cancer of the oral cavity, urinary bladder, esophagus, stomach, and brain"

The USDA tried to ban use of sodium nitrite in the 1977, September 19, by Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services of the USDA, Carol Tucker Foreman, but the meat industry accused of her trying to "ban bacon".  Eventually, her work failed, and we are still consuming sodium nitrite in packaged meat products. I am sure you are aware that Oprah got sued  by the meat industry and took 7 years and $1millions later, she was acquitted.

There has been studies that show sodium nitrite promotes colon cancer, bladder cancer, and brain tumors.  

So, how do we avoid sodium nitrite?  There are packaged meat out in the grocery stores that are produced without sodium nitrite.  The package indicates "uncured".

Please read labels on any processed foods to protect you and your family from danger!  Do your own research of this ingredient and you will find more information about it.
http://www.naturalnews.com/007133.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/028824_processed_meat_heart_disease.html
http://organizedwisdom.com/Sodium_Nitrite_Effects
http://www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/jecmono/v05je15.htm