processed meats as carcinogenic for man. we decided to investigate the ingredients used by the giants of the food industry. in d.n.a. breaks. cells into sort of print cancer cells. we discovered that to impede or halt regulations on certain additives food industry lobbies have been working in the shadows for decades. just to understand that the industry is a money making business so they're very risk averse they're not going to fund a study that is bad for their business. as. it's just a baby so to speak. at the heart of this strategy of influence are the scientists who collaborate needs industry biju for this i received some compensation for my time as well as the others who wants. my consent. and

the scientists who are targeted. basically were trying to shoot me down or discredit me that's what she needs scientifically. these efforts to go after the science to discredit the scientists is a key element of the much larger strategy which is just the. process. between intimidation lies and manipulation we will uncover proof of a worldwide strategy we're hitting below the belt is a lot. of. feeling. that it's time to eat tonight you are our guests. to find out how ham is made we visited a factory. we might. welcome to. one of the market leaders in france and one of the few to play the card of

transparency. the ham on your supermarket shelves starts out like this. big lumps of pork meat. to add taste a little vegetable stock. it all goes into a ham shaped mold and it's cooked. and the result perfectly pink rounded slices if you grasp the basics well let's rewind a little to see the detail that changes everything. to obtain this fine there's another very important step. you have to inject the meat. a machine with a dozen syringes injects a liquid into the lumps of pork.

the liquid contains an essential additive. factory manager who shows us. these yellow sacks contain a mixture of salt and sodium nitrite the additive to fifty. percent is the day. of us you'll. need to. buy to do seem to need a really. good s. up it's the invalid. that's up it's big. in fact he's telling us that the pretty pink of our ham isn't natural at all. it's thanks to sodium nitrate. this additive fix is the pink of the me during cooking. otherwise ham would be the color of roast pork.

that's why food industrialist can't do without it. as a processed meats producer would confirm glimpses of a loss of c.c. his aunt corporal or the girl preschooler to get it on the toilet or the high when she or them just get it. done and i'll clear the cream jaunts of the nose on windy safety for this in history for myself as a given because there's only a biscuit doesn't going to sting. some come up to some going to eat i'm not sure. that i can always. make it listen to. the ham natural but without the pink it would be impossible to sell. the big problem is that sodium nitrite is believed to be a danger to public health. the additives suspected of playing

a role in the development of colorectal cancer. one of the deadliest cancers in europe. because of a phenomenon the takes place during digestion. it's chemistry but will make it simple. piece of cured meet. you think you're peacefully digesting it but what you don't know is the nitrite molecules are reacting with the meat proteins transforming them into very dangerous substances. i mean. we went to the netherlands to learn more about the effects of this chemical reaction on our health. to the faculty of medicine of maastricht university.

this is where the toxicologist professor works. he's been interested in nitrites for years and by extension means. damage in the last intestine so in. d.n.a. brain. cells into sort of precancerous cells and that's of course something. to prevent professor to cook notably wanted to find out what happens. the body when we don't eat processed meat and when we eat a lot of it to do so he conducted an experiment with human guinea pigs. for two weeks this student three hundred grams of processed meat a day the equivalent of eight. to fifteen we saw. the exposure to. considerably increased.

threefold increase. levels that we measure. the researcher measured the impact on the organism of this chemical mutation of nitrites. in his lab he tested the water of big processed meat eaters. so what you see here is. four different individuals. to see what happens inside the body the researchers mix this water with human cells . deposited in the test tube. then they observe what happened to the cells. you see. everything is. but if you are exposed to. break it is all of the d.n.a.

you see this. is. so. the more likely it is that this will eventually to some type of cell how does it take for. relatively. say when we isolate the cells. and then. and. also. we stopped using nitrites. potentially. in europe. because. of very frequent disease. changes.

and therefore potentially fewer deaths just by suppressing nitrites. but the food industry has a sledgehammer argument for justify the use of. it protects us from botulism. botulism is a form of food poisoning caused by bacteria that affect our central nervous system and can be deadly. ferry right. but there's a glitch in their argument. they're already companies which do produce processed meats without nitrites and their customers are in fine form.

if you happen to be copenhagen in denmark. pop into a supermarket. there you'll find cured meats nitrites. and for those whose danish is gone a bit rusty it's. everywhere. you can easily recognize it by its color more brownish than pretty pink. and the best known brand is produced one hundred fifty kilometers south of the capital in denmark biggest organic processed meat plant kind of god. and. the boss a biochemist started in nitrate free cured meats twenty five years ago.

and since then the danish health authorities haven't registered a single case of botulism caused by processed meat. we do not have problems with this bacteria i would say of all the last fifty years this has not been a recent. topic in western europe that was a problem and needed. hundred years ago where the thing going up as clean as they are slaughterhouses were another clean as they are today so no worry about bacteria we have to worry about additives that my. and if they are not necessary for some very good reasons we should not do is clear the cancer risk today i mean risks that's the main risk that they definitely and and agony has been.

led to produce nice i think meat main reason is that freight cars. not accept we do not have the red color of the been used to. so many. think about all the.

experts have been ringing alarm bells for years twenty five years ago a european union report already recommended reducing the amount of. meat. in one thousand nine hundred.

the european. rights to the products. so we would. of course you can use of of for institutions which are responsive to follow. and to present. its notes. and. dispense a good amendment for over an hour the commissioner attempted to pull the wool over our eyes. in spite of all the reports by experts which for twenty five years have warned the authorities about the dangers of nitrite. over these studies you don't

think there are enough you know all those status. it's just your blood sends to transparency since the possibility of how does go to show to believe that she had to do it to follow and to see and to do how to move. as soon as possible since parents is good decisions are better than just sort of did all decisions in lines of procedures. like this isn't like if i build big. union oh but i'm not kidding of european union i mean this is. going on for so now started to get started as a starter shows that all stand in safety a line in this case is why europe lost against denmark in the european court of justice in this story i don't know khandaan says i.

don't need more info to mention the us i am not one who knows. so let's look at the facts mr commissioner. denmark wanted to limit the use of nitrites the european commission was against it and in two thousand and three in court the danes won in the name of the protection of public health. i am very happy about european court decisions than european court. probably is but i want to do it that. and the commissionaire to sponsor a problem is in better conditions and yet since this court ruling e.u. regulations are just as lax as ever. from my point of view we must be more and asking to change the. need for follow ups to

keep. on board popular coutts but i'm just not put off it absolute but it's but it's of course it's. time perfect that's just what the food industry wants and what it is built its strategy on for years. because when it comes to nitrite industrialists have been waiting out the clock for forty eight. years of scientific manipulation blackmail and intense lobbying so the meat business can carry on bringing home the bacon. and it all began on the other side of the atlantic.

if you think we're exaggerating listen to this. in the late one nine hundred seventy s. nitrite was almost banned in the united states just after the publication of a large scale. study requested by the government. a relationship between kids it was proved suggested proved and a fairly strong one there were two thousand. very extensive study done by a well respected scientist. the banning of nitrites was announced in the press but the american media institute would bring out its big guns. in his office overlooking the capital its president richard ling spoke. needs to contain or big big thing the. billion dollars about two thirds of the whole production in the states goes into

cured meats. presents a problem or our industry and or the government. we're all hopeful of a solution. armed with financial analysis the american meat lobby forced the government to back down the banning of nitrites would send prices plummeting and cause an apocalypse. but it was a political event that would close the debate. in one thousand nine hundred eighty ronald reagan was elected president of the united states and guess who entered into government. richard ling the president of the american meat institute himself. the idea of banning nitrite forever buried. the experiment base study on two thousand rats ended up in the trash can.

and after that the same fate would await every scientific publication calling nitrites into question. if you're wondering how the interest of industry can systematically win against what's at stake in public health the following will enlighten you. fifteen years after the victory of reagan and the media industrialists a new study shook america to the core. if it's not one thing it's another a study finds a link between hot dogs now and cancer put yourself in the shoes of the average american joe at the time. you and your family are eating hot dogs at the shopping mall or in the street just as usual. the effect was immediate in a matter of days dog sales fell by eight percent. and given the size of the american

market that represented millions of dollars less for the food industry. the author of the hot dog study that caused sales to plummet was susan preston mark . she's now retired scientist living near los angeles in a residential suburban setting straight out of an american so. after several tense months of talks she agreed to see us. but we had to insist right up until the last minute. the lady is very discreet it's only to go from friendship. mrs preston martin. yes and sometimes you got some strange t.v. .

discoveries on processed meats the researcher was the victim of a number of attacks but she agreed to look back at her work which showed up link between the excessive beating of hot dogs and certain rare cancers in children. how did you find a relationship. well just the way we always did when we did case control studies we started out with a group of children who had leukemia and compared them to group children who didn't have leukemia and we asked the mothers about what they fed the children and sure enough the kids with. what did you think when you saw this strong relationship because it was quite a it was with dogs i was a little bit surprised and just. reserved judgment which is what the stew and they find something they don't expect. from

that moment on the food industrialists susan preston martin became public enemy number one. and the meat lobby they definitely didn't like what we were doing they were terribly upset and i could understand that you know their livelihood was making processed meat and they didn't want any any thing coming out saying that those were not good for you basically were trying to shoot me down or discredit me and that's what shoot down needs scientifically. what we discovered went much further. the scientists had never realized just whom she was dealing with. america made a hot dog. meyer gave it to get a ticket. in the u.s. the undisputed champion of supermarket sold hot dogs has always been oscar meyer.

america's number one. a brand of the kraft foods group a giant of the food industry. so far no surprises. but what's less known is that at the time and until two thousand and seven kraft was owned by philip morris the world's second largest tobacco company a lobby which went as far as lies and manipulation to defend its own interests notably in the big tobacco lawsuits of the one nine hundred ninety s. do you believe nicotine is not addictive i believe nicotine is not addictive yes i believe. cigarettes questioning proven scientific facts the strategy worked perfectly for years with tobacco so philip morris use it again to save oscar meyer's hot dogs. in kenya in georgia stand how the multinational manipulated science to defend its

investments in cured meats you know we headed to northern california. to san francisco. hey if this university library holds what are commonly known as the tobacco documents millions of internal tobacco industry documents. our guide stanton glantz has spent his life unraveling the cigarette makers strategies. he particularly remembers one phrase used by a lobbyist in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. and. doubters our product since it is the best means of competing with the body of fact that exists in the mind of the general public there's also the means of establishing a controversy for him everything is summed up in one word.

and it was exactly like that by creating doubt that philip morris set out to discredit dr preston martin study on processed meat and cancer in children. the proof is there in the vast database of the tobacco documents. by typing susan preston martin you get hundreds of hits. and all in the philip morris by. the researchers name crops up regularly in the titles of memos letters and internal reports. the multinational believed her study on hot dogs would reopen the debate surrounding nitrites from the one nine hundred seventy s. so it paid scientists to go through her work with a fine tooth comb in order to find any weak points.

even her contracts and grant papers passed under the microscope. basically anything that could be used against her. and we can her in the eyes of the government and the press. her. about her sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry suddenly i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each day. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was a cave still some marshawn to feel those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave

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