Australian primary school pupils have been handed leaflets telling them not to eat ham sandwiches as they could increase their chances of getting cancer.
Leaflets from the Cancer Council were inserted into the children's newsletters to send home to parents in New South Wales. The Daily Mail reports that this latest warning actually follows on from a previous leaflet from the Cancer Council, which told children to have a 'meat-free Monday'.
Both parents and those in the production of such pork products have defended the ham sandwich, calling the warnings 'politically correct messages' and one pork company owner has said the Cancer Council leaflets go "too far". David Bligh of Bringelly Pork and Bacon told News Corp : "Ham is actually a product which has been developed over the last 5,000 years and people have eaten it through the ages without any problems."
