What is it about processed meats (ground beef, turkey, bacon) that consuming it causes cancer way more often in humans?

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What is it about processed meats (ground beef, turkey, bacon) that consuming it causes cancer way more often in humans?

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The reason is nitrates.
But it’s not even true that it causes cancer “way more often”. I implore everybody to closely look at the actual studies on how cancer risk is assessed and how the studies on cancer risk from meat were done and what they concluded with. 

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