Canned Spam in 2006 WAPF Shopping Guide?

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I posted this on the DiscussingNT group, but I thought I'd cross post

here in hopes that as large a list as this is, with lots of chapter

leaders, maybe someone might know the answer:

I just received my 2006 WAPF Shopping Guide (actually my very first

shopping guide!) On page 16 under Processed Meats in the *GOOD*

section is Spam! Spam??? Really???

So my DH had to go to the store for a couple of things and (with my

blessing LOL) brought back a can. The ingredients are: Pork with

Ham, Salt, Water, Modified Potato Starch, Sugar and Sodium Nitrite.

He gets a hankering for Spam ever so often, so now that it's in the

WAPF shopping guide, I suppose I'll have to let him treat himself to

it now and then. I sure don't like to have the sodium nitrite in the

house though.

I would have thought this would be a no-no - I mean Beeler's pork got

yanked off the approved list because the pigs didn't have much access

to the great outdoors. And Hormel wouldn't be factory farmed? Or fed

garbage, or have antibiotics? I continue to buy Beeler's bacon (best

bacon I've ever had), but I am really having a hard time figuring out

why WAPF would allow Spam.

Any thoughts?

Rhonda