The Truth About Meat Curing: What the popular media do NOT want you to know!

08/15/202208/23/2022 eben van tonder The Truth About Meat Curing: What the popular media do NOT want you to know! Bacon & the Art of Living, Bacon Curing, bacon processing, nitrate curing, nitrite curing, nitrites and cancer, truth about curing, truth about nitrates, truth about nitrites

So much miss information and reporting for the sake of sensation-seeking on this matter that I had to do this short series. One can keep silent for only so long!

The series is in response to the following documentary, “The Meat Lobby: How the Meat Industry Hides the Truth | ENDEVR Documentary” on YouTube https://youtu.be/nX1KUPZC3Ck

There are many similar ones on the web and every so often a newspaper decides to run articles on the matter.

Part 1: Setting the stage

Part 2: The Curing Molecule

In this instalment, I refer to Fathers of Meat Curing and my article on the work of Dr Polenske, Saltpeter: A Concise History and the Discovery of Dr Ed Polenske.

Part 3: Steps to secure the safety of cured meat

I discuss steps taken by the meat industry, academia and government right from the inception of nitrite curing to ensure it is completely safe. The article I did which I discuss is Regulations of Nitrate and Nitrite post-1920’s: the problem of residual nitrite.

Part 4: The Benefit of Nitrites

Therapeutic Uses of Inorganic Nitrite and Nitrate – From the Past to the Future.

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Cover photo is courtesy of Robert Goodrick.

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The English Pig, the Kolbroek and the Kune Kune in Bacon & the Art of Living

06/26/202106/26/2021 eben van tonder Kolbroek, Kune Kune Bacon & the Art of Living, Bacon History, Kolbroek Pig, Kune Kune Pig, pig breeds, The English Pig

The English Pig, the Kolbroek and the Kune Kune in Bacon & the Art of Living
By Eben van Tonder
26 June 2021

Introduction

I fell in love with the story of the Kolbroek from the first time I heard it. It is one of the indigenous South African pig breeds, closely related to the Kune Kune from New Zealand. In trying to trace the origins of these breeds I had to go back to the development of the English pig. It’s one of the greatest stories of our trade and here I share the complete work from Bacon & the Art of Living on these amazing animals!

From Bacon & the Art of Living

Below is the list of chapters dealing specifically with the Kolbroek, the Kune Kune and the English pig.

Chapter 03: Kolbroek
Chapter 10.15 The English Pig with links to the Kolbroek and Kunekune
Chapter 11.02: C & T Harris in New Zealand and other amazing tales