Who Poisoned Your Bacon? (eBook)

The Dangerous History of Meat Additives

Guillaume Coudray (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
306 Seiten
Icon Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78578-612-9 (ISBN)

Infos

'Highly persuasive ... a well-organised and solid dossier that alerts us to legalised chemical trickery' Joanna Blythman, The Spectator 'A bombshell book' Daily Mail 'Eye-opening and important . . . a book full of righteous anger' Bee Wilson, from her Foreword Did you know that bacon, ham, hot dogs and salami are classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as 'category 1 carcinogens'? Would you eat them if you knew they caused bowel cancer? Following ten years of detailed investigation, documentary film-maker Guillaume Coudray presents a powerful examination of the use of nitro-additives in meat. As he reveals, most mass-produced processed meats, and now even many 'artisanal' products, contain chemicals that react with meat to form cancer-causing compounds. He tells the full story of how, since the 1970s, the meat-processing industry has denied the health risks because these additives make curing cheaper and quicker, extending shelf life and giving meat a pleasing pink colour. These additives are, in fact, unnecessary. Parma ham has not contained them for nearly 30 years - and indeed all traditional cured meats were once produced without nitrate and nitrite. Progressive producers are now increasingly following that example.? Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich? - featuring a foreword by acclaimed food writer Bee Wilson - is the authoritative, gripping and scandalous story of big business flying in the face of scientific health warnings. It allows you to evaluate the risks, and carries a message of hope that things can change.

Guillaume Coudray is a French director and producer of documentary films. A political scientist by training, he is a graduate of Sciences Po and a former research grantee at the National Foundation for Political Science. His decade-long investigation into meat-processing has led to widespread press coverage and a hard-hitting film documentary broadcast in more than fifteen countries, which has had a major impact on the meat-processing industry. He lives in Paris. Follow him on twitter at @g_coudray

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2021
• Vorwort: Bee Wilson
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Schlagworte: Bacon • Bee Wilson • carcinogen • carcinogenic • cochonneries • cowspiracy • Guillaume Coudray • harmful foods • meat • meat production • mindful chef • Nitrates • nitrates, nitrites, bacon, sausages, processed meat, carcinogenic, meat production, cochonneries • nitrates, nitrites, bacon, sausages, processed meat, carcinogenic, meat production, cochonneries, Guillaume Coudray, Bee wilson, cowspiracy, veganuary, vegan, mindful chef, meat, carcinogen, who, bacon, salami, harmful foods, the observer, • nitrites • processed meat • Salami • sausages • The Observer • Vegan • Veganuary • WHO
• ISBN-10: 1-78578-612-1 / 1785786121
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78578-612-9 / 9781785786129