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on larry king and you're watching our t.v. america first didn't bore. have you noticed whenever you see a commercial for ham on t.v. it's often set in the countryside. with a nice family and a rustic backdrop. and the hem is always pink. very pale. and one hundred percent natural of course. looks so tasty it has your mouth watering on the couch. with that's the point.

but what if behind is pretty pink and one of the biggest health scandals of our era . in two thousand and fifteen the world health organization listed processed meats as carcinogenic for man. we decided to investigate the ingredients used by the giants of the food industry and used d.n.a. breaks new date cells into sort of precancerous 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 of what he makes and is this so they're very risk averse they're not going to fund a study that is bad for their business it's a thump as if. it's just a baby so to speak political to this get them at the heart of this strategy of influence are the scientists who collaborate this needs industry biju for this i

reasoned some compensation for my time as well as the others the months. and night incident. and the scientists who are targeted. basically were trying to shoot me down. or discredit me that's what she needs scientifically. efforts to go after the science to discredit the scientists is a key element of the much larger strategy which is the entire policy making process . between intimidation lies and manipulation we will uncover proof of a worldwide strategy for hitting below the belt is allowed. feeling hungry now 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 feel 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 a 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. additive. factory manager shows us. these yellow sacks contain a mixture of salt and sodium nitrite the additive to fifty. percent of the day. by two is enough to need a. doing as if it's the invalid nor include a house full of it that's up to me. 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 meat producer would confirm. it's a loss since he says a lot. to eat a lot of that or that. small and just get it. all clears and clean gone to the normal green. system for us. because there's only. some come up to some going after it i'm not sure. that i can always. listen to. 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 teo the cook works. he's been interested in nitrites for years and by extension natural means. known to use damage in the last intestine so in. d.n.a. breaks. cells into sort of precancerous cells. or something. to prevent professor to cook. notably want to find out what happens inside 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 and 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 to. observe

what happened to the cells. to see. everything. but if you. are exposed to. breakage it's all of the d.n.a. you see this. is. the more likely it is that this will eventually mutate to the type of cell how does it take for. relatively quickly. and. also. stop 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. 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 industry. 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 now 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 is the main risks that's the main risk today definitely and and agony it has been so. light introduced in meat the main reason is that the freight costs not accept which do not have the red color of the been used to. make. the mission of newsworthy is to go to the people tell their side of the story our stories are well sourced we don't hide anything from the public and i don't think the mainstream media in this country can say i think average viewer knows that r.t.

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tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. these are the hawks that we along with our. one. hundred go is one of the few food industry companies to do without nitrites. and yet experts have been ringing alarm bells for years twenty five years ago a european union health report already recommended reducing the amounts of nitrite used in processed meats. in one thousand nine hundred nine this report even put forward. banning its use altogether. despite the increasing number of studies the european commission still allows industrial food companies to add lots of nitrites to the products. so we went to the commissioner for health and food safety

a former health minister in lithuania question. of course. of all for institutions. to follow. the present laws five. or. six. months 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. thing there are enough you know all this . it's just your blood sense. spartans since the possibility. to show. that she had added to it will flow into c.n.n.

to do how to move forward. on this possible parents is good decisions are just sort of all decisions. like this isn't like. big. union oh. i mean this story. started to get started as a starter shows that almost. saved your life in this case why lost against. justice. 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 to me that sound and the commissioner 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 not just asking to change the. need for follow ups to keep. on board popular coutts but i'm just not put off it absolutely 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 an 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. a big big thing the. billion dollars about two thirds of the production in the states goes into cured meats and 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 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 in south. 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 interests 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 french t.v. . mrs preston much. yes and sometimes you got some strange t.v. . with your discoveries are 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 eating of hot dogs and certain rare cancers in children. how did you find the 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. dogs what did you think when you saw this strong relationship because it was quite it was with dogs i was a little bit surprised and just. reserved judgment which is what epidemiologists do when they find something they don't expect. from that moment on for 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 meats and they didn't want any anything 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 it is. in the us the undisputed champion of supermarket sold hot dogs has always been oscar meyer. america's number one with. 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 yet i believe. in your questioning proven scientific facts the strategy worked perfectly for years with tobacco so philip morris use it again to save oscar meyer's hotdogs. and. enjoy your stand how the multinational manipulated science to defend its investments in cured meats you know we headed to northern california. in san francisco. this university library holds what are commonly known as the tobacco documents millions of internal tobacco

industry documents. and. our guide stanton glantz has spent his life unraveling the cigarette makers strategies. and. he particularly remembers one phrase used by a lobbyist in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. 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 it is 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 concur in the eyes of the government and the press.

in case you're new to the gang this is how it works not the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington to washington control the media the media control over voters elected to businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down to lose business you just need to ask the right questions and demand

the right answer. questions. on the news tonight the president visits capitol hill to push for tax reform as arizona senator jeff flake announces he will not seek reelection and goes after the president and the house intelligence committee will expand its investigation to include a uranium deal signed with russia while hillary clinton was secretary of state and details slowly emerge on the deaths of four american soldiers at the hands of isis in the african nation of niger year. reporting tonight from washington d.c. this is the news on r.t. america.