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Is packaged ham REALLY that bad?

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  • #92
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    Amazingfun wrote: »
    But it's not "Chris Kesser's word", is it? Look at the studies he presented to buoy his argument. And by the way this was all discussed in the early pages of this thread, hence my *eyeroll* when the "nitrates are bad" stuff started up again.

    **You know we have nitrates in our saliva?

    Yeah I read the earlier stuff, hence why I didn't harp on about nitrates and just mentioned them in passing. I never said they were necessarily bad, just that we don't need to take them in our diet, which is true of many additives. I was more talking about nitrosamines, which may or may not cause cancer and are derived from nitrites. Also, I've spent the past three years studying nutrition at university and have yet to hear one of my lecturers tell us nitrates are something we should include in out diet, and I think I'll take their word over some guy on a website.


  • #93
    purplecow1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,877 ✭✭✭purplecow1977


    Ashbx wrote: »
    There is a programme on Channel 4 (I don't want to name it incase its not allowed!) that ring the likes of Denny support and ask them questions about the product. So one particular one he did was about processed meat. Its a very informative programme and if you are genuinely interested in this, you should give it watch.

    The only one I did watch was actually about processed ham and he questioned everything they put on the label. Not sure if all of them are the same but the main issue with these hams is that, yes its all from the same part of the animal (like the leg) but the one slice of ham you have, could have 10 different pigs legs in it! Whereas, you buy a joint of ham in a butcher and that is obviously all from one animal. The other thing was the "glue" that they used...this is the nasty part. If a mod can confirm I can name the programme, I will but defo suggest you should give it a watch and you may think twice about processed ham going forward.


    Any food that has been processed in any way always has a risk of having something 'foreign' ending up in the product, accidentally or otherwise.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095359/Hairdresser-bites-Tesco-sandwich-chews-dirty-false-FINGERNAIL.html

    http://www.joe.ie/dumb-it-down/what-can-you-find-in-irish-food-dead-rodents-and-insects-if-youre-really-unlucky/


  • #94
    dor843088
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭dor843088


    purplecow1977 wrote: »
    Any food that has been processed in any way always has a risk of having something 'foreign' ending up in the product, accidentally or otherwise.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095359/Hairdresser-bites-Tesco-sandwich-chews-dirty-false-FINGERNAIL.html

    http://www.joe.ie/dumb-it-down/what-can-you-find-in-irish-food-dead-rodents-and-insects-if-youre-really-unlucky/

    Yeah ill stick to the organic veg some farmer has spread cow sh1te all over and not bothered to wash it off so it looks more organic .


  • #95
    mickman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭mickman


    dor843088 wrote: »
    Yeah ill stick to the organic veg some farmer has spread cow sh1te all over and not bothered to wash it off so it looks more organic .

    What a ridiculous comment


  • #96
    dor843088
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭dor843088


    mickman wrote: »
    Do you bow down to CHris Kesser every evening before bedtime ?

    Eat your packaged ham like a good lad

    More rediculous than this one?
    Mickman is afraid of ham
    She gave him a sandwich so he divorced his mam.
    He tried to chill and took a blue pill
    But silly mickman ended up ill.


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  • #97
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    dor843088 wrote: »
    Yeah ill stick to the organic veg some farmer has spread cow sh1te all over and not bothered to wash it off so it looks more organic .

    Cows dont wander into the veg fields :/

    The term organic is not very well regulated though, it can vary from not spraying a crop X weeks before harvest to never using anything extra at all. I'd rather eat foods that have been treated to remove disease myself.


  • #98
    mickman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭mickman


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    Cows dont wander into the veg fields :/

    The term organic is not very well regulated though, it can vary from not spraying a crop X weeks before harvest to never using anything extra at all. I'd rather eat foods that have been treated to remove disease myself.

    The key is to "know your farmer"


  • #99
    dor843088
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭dor843088


    Id rather just eat foods that I enjoy and exercise a degree of common sense instead of spending 99% of my time worrying about the stuff that will make 1% of difference. Eat your greens and take it easy on the junk and stay active. Job done.


  • #100
    mickman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭mickman


    dor843088 wrote: »
    Id rather just eat foods that I enjoy and exercise a degree of common sense instead of spending 99% of my time worrying about the stuff that will make 1% of difference. Eat your greens and take it easy on the junk and stay active. Job done.

    True


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