(NaturalNews) The American Academy of Pediatrics is making headlines this week with a bizarre recommendation that hot dogs should be re-shaped to make them less of a choking hazard for children. But there's no mention of all the cancer-causing chemical ingredients that actually go
into the hot dogs. Pediatric physicians are apparently more concerned about
the shape than the ingredients. And they apparently have no concern about the truth that
hot dogs contain cancer-causing ingredients.
Hot dogs contain
sodium nitrite, of course -- a cancer-causing ingredient that's been widely linked to
pancreatic cancer and colorectal cancer. People who eat hot dogs and other
processed meats have a
67% increased risk of pancreatic cancer (
http://www.naturalnews.com/007024.html).
Processed meats no doubt contribute to a large number of
childhood cancers. According to the National Cancer Institute, over 1,500
children die each year in the United States from childhood cancer (
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/childhood).
How many children actually die from choking on
hot dogs, anyway? I'll bet you it's a fraction of the number of children who die from
leukemia or
brain cancer each year.
That the AAP would be so concerned about the shape of hot
dogs while remaining silent about the health harm caused by hot dog
ingredients isn't all that surprising, actually: These are
physicians who often focus on treating children with yet more
chemicals such as ADHD drugs, antibiotics and antidepressants. One such pediatrician just got arrested for sexually assaulting over one hundred children in his medical practice (
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1253095/U-S-paediatrici...).
Of course, that whacko doesn't represent all pediatricians. Most pediatric physicians are caring human beings who really want to help children. And that's where this advice about changing the shape of hot dogs comes from: These doctors genuinely want to prevent children from choking on these
processed meat products.
So what should the new shape be... rectangular? Should hot dogs be made into long rectangle shapes so they resemble
pink lumber? It would certainly prevent them from rolling out of the buns, wouldn't it?
Then again, we might have to redesign the buns, too. Square hot dogs, you see, don't fit right in round buns. So we'd have to recalibrate the entire chain of processed junk
food just to prevent children from choking on the dogs.
Personally, I think we should engage a little
truth in advertising and just mandate that hot dogs be reshaped into
fleshy cancer tumors. That way, you really know what you're
eating. If these dogs resembled the diseased
animals they're sometimes made from, choking would no longer be a problem at all because
no one would eat them in the first place!Check out my
mystery meat macrophotography to see actual pictures of hot dogs, salami and other processed meats
up close and personal:
http://www.naturalnews.com/PhotoTour_Mystery_Meat_1.htmlWhat's really in hot dogs
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 60 percent of all infant choking emergency room visits are caused by food. Another one-third are caused by non-food items such as coins, buttons and marbles, and 9 percent of choking incidents are caused by "undetermined" objects. As in, "What the heck does little Joey have in his mouth?"
If he's choking on a hot
dog, then what he has in his mouth should be quite frightening: Ground-up bits of meat scraps gathered from thousands of different carcasses from animals that were pumped full of
hormones, fed chicken litter as part of their diet, treated inhumanely and slaughtered in a highly fearful environment that releases even more "terror" hormones into the meat at the moment of death.
On top of all that, there are the chemical additive ingredients that cause cancer and other diseases. Here are the ingredients for
Oscar Meyer hot dogs:
MECHANICALLY SEPARATED TURKEY, PORK, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, FLAVOR, SODIUM LACTATE, CORN SYRUP, DEXTROSE, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM DIACETATE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE.
Yumm! Sodium nitrite and
corn syrup! Just what every little boy needs to grow up big and strong (and diabetic). And you just gotta love "mechanically separated turkey," pork and
chicken. This is a technical-sounding term for a process that used to be called "mechanically
reclaimed meat" (MRM).
As described on
Wikipedia:
"Mechanically recovered/reclaimed meat (MRM), is a paste-like meat product produced by forcing beef, pork, turkey or chicken bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. Mechanically separated meat has been used in certain meat and meat products since the late 1960s. This product can be contrasted with meat extracted by advanced meat recovery systems. The most common use of MSM is into hotdogs."Did you know that
spinal cords go into the MRM machines, too? Yumm... spinal cord
juice! As Wikipedia explains:
"Concerns were raised ...when the BSE epidemic, otherwise known as Mad-Cow Disease, was discovered in the United Kingdom in 1986. Since bits of the spinal cord (the part most likely to be carrying BSE) often got mixed in with the rest of the meat;
products using mechanically separated meat taken from the carcasses of bovines were at higher risk for transmitting BSE to humans." (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanically_separated_meat)
Today, however, mechanically-separated
beef isn't allowed in hot dogs, but turkey,
pork and chicken certainly is.
What's a little
pig spine in your food, anyway? How about some
bird brain? Or some
turkey tendon juice?Lick it up, suckers! If you're eating hot dogs, you're basically eating
animal juice paste. MRM machines are essentially
animals juicers that extract protein paste from carcasses. Combined with a little corn syrup,
sodium nitrite and other chemicals, you get hot dogs!
Are you choking yet?
If not, just view the mystery meat macrophotography here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/PhotoTour_Mystery_Meat_1.htmlSources for this story includehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/23/hot-dogs-top-food-hazards
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