[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Yeah, I don't fully understand what processed means. Like there's the obvious packaged stuff and prepared stuff like bologna and salami and frozen chicken wings. But then I heard that deli meats are processed too. Not just the packaged ones, but the ones you actually get from the deli. I always thought those were a cut above, pun intended. I thought I was avoiding a lot of bad stuff by going to the deli over the refrigerator section.

Now the bacon is processed? Isn't it just cut?

What does this mean, do we have to be hunting our own meat for it not to be processed? Does anyone understand where processed begins and ends? Soon they'll be telling us our raw ground beef is processed.

Processed meat for purposes of the cancer evaluation is defined in the report:

Processed meat refers to meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavour or improve preservation. Most processed meats contain pork or beef, but processed meats may also contain other red meats, poultry, offal, or meat by-products such as blood.