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Lawsuit claims hot dogs linked to cancer

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:39:00 +0000

By Rachel Stockton (rachels@foodconsumer.org) For those ordered to read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" in their English Lit classes, enjoying a hot dog is an iffy

Tom Super

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:24:57 +0000

Meat products are regulated and inspected by USDA and bear the federal government's seal of inspection, showing they are wholesome and nutritious. While PCRM and the Cancer Project argue for warning labels on our safe products, the labels would be more appropriately placed on the Cancer Project's Web sites and press releases to alert consumers to their vegan, animal rights agenda.

In addition, a miniscule portion of hot dogs in the market place today are made with "organ meats" as you describe. Pick up a pack and see for yourself on the ingredient statement that is required by law to be on every package of hot dogs.

And to compare today's meat and food processing systems to 1906 is like comparing comparing a horse and buggy to a 2009 Honda Accord.

Thomas Super
Director, Media Outreach
American Meat Institute (AMI)
202.587.4238
tsuper@meatami.com

Moe Jurray

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:02:12 +0000

I applaud the swift reply by the AMI. I'm not so much worried about the beef content in my hot dogs as I am with the nitrate and nitrites contained in them to keep them rosy red.

Vegans have a tough agenda against meat, but the substance of the argument - that the meat is bad - is off the mark in my opinion.

Banks

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:02:26 +0000

I have been in the meat industry for several years. I have worked in slaughterhouses and butcher shops. In the early 90's, while working in a pork slaughterhouse in the midwest, we would encounter several hogs that had tuberculosis. The inspectors would sequester them all week and on Saturday we would cut them into chunks and send them to Hormel. They were labeled "PFC" (passed for cooking), and were apparently used to make spam. Our plant also made McDonalds sausage patties. To this day, I have not eaten another sausage patty from McDonalds because of what I have seen going it o them.

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Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:42:29 +0000

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