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by groffee 1432 days ago
It's not just the cancer risk, if you have a nitrate allergy it can mess your stomach up pretty badly, naturally occurring ones seem to be ok but it's when they're added to preserve the food it's pure poison.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/472610-nitrite-nitrate-al...

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Conflating nitrate with nitrite, an allergy to something that's not an antigen, a substance that's only dangerous when it's not 'natural', a website filled with clickbait.

Based on the number of red flags I'm going to have to dismiss this out of hand, sorry.