Who poisoned your bacon sandwich? : the dangerous history of meat additives
Coudray, Guillaume2021
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A powerful exploration of the use of carcinogenic nitro-additives in the meat millions of people eat every week. The result of more than five years of detailed research, documentary filmmaker Guillaume Coudray's book demonstrates why many in the media are now comparing the processed meat industry with Big Tobacco. The first part of the book explores why nitro-additives came to be used systematically in meat processing. The second explains why, since the 1950s, meat-packing companies across the West have, it is alleged, repeatedly denied the links between the chemicals used in making bacon and ham, and the onset of bowel cancer - among many other health problems. As Cochonneries (La Decouverte, 2017), the original book led to widespread coverage in France and a hard-hitting documentary on French television. This completely updated English translation is set to have a major impact on the debate in the UK and US and create significant levels of media coverage. The story it unearths - of the investigations into big business flying in the face of countless scientific health warnings - is one that too few of us have yet heard.
Who poisoned your bacon sandwich? : the dangerous history of meat additives / Guillaume Coudray ; translated by David Watson.
Coudray, Guillaume, authorWatson, David (Translator), translator
Expanded edition.
London : Icon Books Ltd, 2021.©2021
xv, 384 pages ; 22 cm.
Previously published in French under the title Cochonneries.Includes bibliographical references and index.Translated from the French.
9781785786112 (pbk)9781785786112
338.176
EnglishFrench
385409
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