Sausages... Do you feed them to your kids?!

[DGGR]

Sounds silly I know...
But after seeing processed red meat as a class 1 carcinogen (Who grading) I keep feeling so guilty every time my son eats them. But they're his favourite food!
I've stopped buying them in the regular shop because I know he has them at school and with grandparents so he eats them at least once a week.
I follow some 'health influencers' who don't agree with it based on 'healthy' countries like Spain also consuming a lot of red processed meat.
But it's in my kids school dinner menu, along with ham. And all parents I know seem to feed it to their kids regularly. So I was wondering what others thought based on the fact its potentially really unhealthy.

Thanks

He was also a dairy farmer so consumption of dairy products wasn’t exactly limited in our house.

We don’t really eat sausages or bacon etc. maybe once a month.

We eat plenty of other shite though tbh. We try to be clean and no UPF but it’s so fucking hard!

Watch Nina Teicholz talking about meat on youtube,
Very interesting.

I read a report a little while back that said even nitrate free sausage and bacon have the same effect on bowel cancer risks. I don’t know if anyone can remember the research?

I feed my Ds . Tbh I love a value sausage so assume your post isn’t who you are targeting . He gets lots of fresh meat to . We eat more chicken than any other food mostly because it’s the cheapest meat

Yes I do but we hardly ever have sausages. I don’t buy ham or bacon anyway. If they occasionally have a bacon sandwich I don’t worry. The concern is for those who eat this stuff all the time, I think.

Wild venison sausages are too good to waste on kids!

DD3 probably has sausages a few times a month. She is more into chicken and beef really. I cant say I have given it too much thought as her diet is otherwise decent. And that's subjective, I am sure there are others who are probably horrified at the amount of fruit and dairy products she can pack away. In the same vein, she's only ever had sweets once on her third birthday - sweets are my line in the sand. I don't break a sweat over her having cordial, pom bears or a chocolate digestive either.

Hypocritically, I think I would be weird about her eating bacon. She has never had it.

Having a child has made me more conscious of my own eating habits for sure!

Argh, I can't be worried about the high quality, no preservative, sausages I buy for my DC and that they eat now and again. Heck, I'm not even that concerned about the probably poor quality sausages that appear once every 3 weeks on the school menu.

the problem is when sausages - especially poor quality ones filled with extras - are eaten day in and day out. exacerbated when, for example, they'r eaten with just chips.

Similarly, I cannot get worked up about the odd bit of ham/chorizo or similar.

I'm all for a healthy diet and cutting out things, but I also think it's about balance. When DD has sausages, she also has new potatoes (or sometimes roasties), carrots, peas and corn. When I use sausages in things for the rest of us, it's usually something like a pasta sauce to which I add plenty of other ingredients.

Dairy products aren’t class 1 carcinogens are they? I’d be dead in a flash.

yes we love a sausage.

The vast majority of typical british pork sausages, sold raw, are little different from any other raw meat. They're not the kind of sausage that are any kind of problem.

In the same vein, she's only ever had sweets once on her third birthday - sweets are my line in the sand

Fucking hell

to be honest too much of anything seems to cause cancer or something else. As long as you are generally eating a healthy, varied diet and not having bacon every breakfast, ham sandwiches for lunch and sausages every dinner then a few times a month is not going to matter. We are all exposed to a million things every day - water from either plastic bottles or old copper pipes, exhaust fumes, etc etc.

I remember reading this article a few years ago:
Yes, bacon really is killing us | Meat | The Guardian
The reason processed meat is more carcinogenic than red meat is nitrate, which normal British sausages don't have (hotdogs and types of sausage like bratwurst may do)

"This caution has kept us as consumers unnecessarily in the dark. Consider sausages. For years, I believed that the unhealthiest part in a cooked English breakfast was the sausage, rather than the bacon. Before I started to research this article, I’d have sworn that sausages fell squarely into the “processed meat” category. They are wrongly listed as such on the NHS website.
But the average British sausage – as opposed to a hard sausage like a French saucisson – is not cured, being made of nothing but fresh meat, breadcrumbs, herbs, salt and E223, a preservative that is non-carcinogenic. After much questioning, two expert spokespeople for the US National Cancer Institute confirmed to me that “one might consider” fresh sausages to be “red meat” and not processed meat, and thus only a “probable” carcinogen."

No, one of the links posted earlier said dairy products may cut the risk of bowel
cancer

Huh? She can't have sweets... but she can have chocolate biscuits and pom bears?

She can have crappy teddy bear shaped potato dough that's been dried out and fried and flavoured...but a jelly baby is a step too far??

Yes but I avoid the cheap ones.

That’s such excellent news 😊

Very wise words.

Well yeah. Sweets mainly for the amount of sugar. I dont even know if you can classify it as an actual food. A pom bear is a dried potato at least!

If you have a butcher nearby then ask them if they make their own, and if the answer is yes ask them how much nitrate they put in when compared to a supermarket. Asked my butcher today and he reckoned he put in about 50% less (but he would say that)

Of course. Sausages are one of life's greatest joys.

Ooo! What's the sausage stuffer?

Meh....let him eat his sausages🤷🏻‍♀️there is always "something" that may cause cancer.

My DC have never eaten sausages. Vegan from weaning and none of us like the idea of fake meat.

I last ate a sausage in the early 1970s so not worried about any health effects.