processed meat

Nitrites are making news again (and again). A new 20-year study reports that men with the highest intake of nitrites had a 23% higher risk of colorectal cancer.
By now, most of us are aware of the recent Annals of Internal Medicine’s publication of 4 interlocking meta-analyses of the effect of red and processed meat on our health.
Another day, another report from epidemiologists on how what we eat kills us; today’s culprit, a perennial favorite, red and processed meat.
When did school lunches become so contentious that law suits are filed over the processes used in their ingredients?