Anybody who has lived in the Dominican Republic will know salami is a staple food and in the basket of groceries (canasta) used to assess food inflation. It is prominently displayed in sections of supermarkets and colmados.
But it is a processed meat and IARC has now reached the conclusion that processed meat causes colorectal cancer, in the same vein that it has confirmed smoking and asbestos causes lung cancer.
The popular food that 'causes' cancer - responsible for thousands of cancer deaths a year
IT IS fiendishly difficult to draw causal links between diet and cancer because many factors can influence cancer risk. However, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) - the specialised cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO) - has concluded that a popular food "causes" cancer and it's responsible for thousands of deaths every year.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/he … essed-meat
........One of the worst risk factors for cancer is processed meat consumption, warns the WHO's specialist cancer agency the IARC.
The IARC Working Group concluded that eating processed meat "causes" colorectal cancer........
So where are the health warnings to the population here? It will be a tough sell.
Salami is such an easy and cheap option in DR and there are many who eat salami and bread rolls for breakfast every day.
I am assuming the meat and fat that goes into salami is pressure sucked off the meat carcasses and gets added salt and preservatives for taste and preservation.
Mind you the traditional breakfast in the UK used to be (and still is for many) eggs, bacon, sausages, beans, mushrooms, black pudding and toast. Big difference years ago was that bacon was freshly back cuts at the butchers and sausages were prepared in the butcher's premises without adding preservatives, water etc.
The message has got out in western nations that eating factory poroduced bacon, sausages, hot dogs and ham and even processed burgers are potential carcinogens. But now it is officially confirmed and perhaps there will be government health warnings displayed like on a packet of cigarettes?
I am not a fan of local salami when offered with tostones. But chirozo occassionally as a tapa - yes.
Eating an abundance of red meat has also been linked (but not confirmed as yet) with colorectal cancer but for many Domincans that is something out of their budgetary reach.