Before you BBQ: What's really in your hot dog?

Who is this person and why do you believe what she writes? Maybe she is on the payroll of Applegate Farms since that is the hot dog she is recommending.I'm soooooooo tired of these food police just go away and leave me to enjoy my Hotdog in peace.

Gross... I have been thinking about switching to a vegetarian diet lately and this article is just the motivation I need!

It is funny to see how naive some people are about the food they eat. Some of these bloggers genuinely seem "surprised" to find out what is in a hotdog. I eat hot dogs, sausages, chorizo and I already know what is in them. Lips, fat, snout, connective tissue, small shreds of muscle tissue, a few organs here and there. All delicious. Would you rather these parts be waste? It was said that the American Indian hunters used every part of the buffalo... I think we've got them beat with the hotdog.

I am a vegetarian partly for that reason, the other reason is that I just don't like it. But this is seriously gross! *gag*

It said that they will tell you healthier brands, I only saw one!

But it sure does taste good!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haba (or anyone else), have you seen the first five minutes of the film
"Prime Cut" (1972) with Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin? ;)

When I was twelve years old I went to a slaugter house with a farmer who wanted his beef cow slaughtered. When they shot the cow between the eyes I jumped out of my skin. I then watched the rest of the butchering and also watched the grinding the meat making hotdogs and baloney etc. I couldn't eat meat for a week... was so turned off but then got over it and still enjoy a good hotdog or two now and then. It didn't make me a vegetarian no more than watching a fishing show and not eat fish. Come on, give me a break with all your scare tactics.

"skeletal muscle" is the type of meat you would want to eat, as opposed to smooth muscle, which makes up internal organs like your stomach and intestines

usda prime steaks and pretty much any other meat that isn't disgusting is made of skeletal muscle, it sounds pretty terrible when they talk about it in the context of hotdogs though for some reason...

Spam: Oh boy, do I remember that book. I'm actually looking at it right now on my bookshelf, and it's just insane how powerful that book was! I love a hot dog every once in a while, don't get me wrong...but knowing what goes in it...disgusting. I do agree that people should be more aware of what their putting into their bodies, all these foreign toxins and chemicals obviously isn't doing our bodies any good! Look at the increase in cancers, diabetes, heart disease, obesity etc... whoo. Felt good to spit that all out :)

hot dogs are not BBQ......

Tomorrow is Wiener Wednesday! Pass the mustard!

BBQ is not grilling hot dogs. BBQ is slow cooking ribs, pork shoulders, pork loin, beef brisket, or chicken. Not processed hot dogs!!!

they forgot sodieum eurthobate - ground up earth worms

As usual, your article leaves out some things, like the fact ALL processed meats in the US have to, by law, have Sodium erythorbate added to them, which prevents the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines. I'm sure the Vegans will dispute that, but that's science fact.

This sounds like a thin advertisment for that brand mentioned. I noticed no mention of Hebrew National hot Dogs was made. Nor was any mention of the more popular brands on the market.

Vegans think they are somehow better than the rest of us, guess what, you're not. I guess you will condemn all the animals in the world that eat meat? Like Wolves, Bears, Coyotes, Birds, the list is endless.

Full circle, Haba?
Publication of "The Jungle" led to the Pure Food and Drug Acts, with
subsequent regulation of the food industry.
But now, a century later, the quest for mega-profits has led to such
wonderful practices as feeding cattle ground-up animal parts, including
cows parts themselves, thus creating cannibalism in a species that's not
even a carnivore to begin with. With the (most likely) result being
Mad Cow Syndrome.
A hot dog was never exactly healthy. But it seems that we have gone
backwards in time. To the "Not-so-Good" Old Days.
Sigh. Going to eat some "fresh" salad now (fingers crossed).

Hey Nini.. take your vegetarian pathetic tree-hugging @ss somewhere else. Don't try and force your lifestyle choice on others. I'll happily chew on a fat chunk of red meat while thinking about how pathetic your life might be. Being a vegetarian doesn't automatically make you healthy. Learn your facts first. And by the way, that next deer I shoot and then skin, I'll enjoy eating some fresh homemade venison sausage in your honor

It is really mindblowing, how health care professionals want us to have
healthier eating habits. Well, if we don't know what goes into our food we buy, how can we be more responsible? The government is poisoning us and we are paying big bux for it,too. They make us eat all the garbage just so they can make bigger profit. This is so typical. But again, somebody have to produce sick people, otherwise drug companies could go on vacation. I need to vomit, everybody lies,cheats for money. So very sad...