If you relish hot dogs, beware. The Cancer Project so firmly believes you should fear frankfurters that last week it sued meat makers to force them to label wieners with cancer warnings.
Read the whole thing and take the poll.
Heard about this on Rush yesterday. (Story #9)
RUSH: You remember back just before the All-Star baseball game in St. Louis a bunch of wacko health freaks, health Nazis put up a billboard warning people that hot dogs cause cancer. And I said to you on that moment, "You doubted me when I told you they were going to come after your SUV, and now you see they have come after your SUV." They're coming after hot dogs. They went after MSG, coconut oil. This group is back. It's called the Cancer Project. I have the story right here. It's in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "If you relish hot dogs, beware. The Cancer Project so firmly believes you should fear frankfurters that last week it sued meat makers to force them to label wieners with cancer warnings."The move comes just a few weeks after the same group caused a stir in St. Louis when it targeted baseball fans headed to the All-Star Game with an anti-hot dog billboard. The billboard, located off Interstate 70, features an image of hot dogs jammed into a cigarette pack labeled 'Unlucky Strikes.' The Cancer Project’s lawsuit was filed in a New Jersey state court against such top dog companies as ConAgra Foods, which owns Hebrew National; Kraft Foods and its Oscar Mayer division; Sara Lee, and Nathan’s Famous in an effort to make them include the notices on packages sold in the Garden State. The suit was filed on behalf of three state residents who said they had purchased hot dogs made by the companies without having been aware of the alleged scientific correlation between eating processed meats and colorectal cancer."
This is absurd and it's hilarious, but it's real. Sued by three residents who said they had been misled when they bought hot dogs that they didn't know that they might cause cancer. "The suit cites a report from the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund --" Any time you see "world" in front of any group it's a bunch of leftists at the UN. "Scientists say there is no safe amount of processed meat that can be eaten, and that just one 50-gram serving of bacon, sausage, deli meats or other processed meats, every day increases a person’s chance of getting colorectal cancer by 21 per cent." What? Well, that's my point. Snerdley just said, "Why are they just picking on the hot dogs?" That's the starting point. After that, they'll go to bacon, and after that they'll go to baloney and whatever processed meats. After that they'll try to put Boar's Head out of business. And after that they're going to come for potato chips. And after that they're going to go after wine. And after that they're going to go after Oreos. Might have to put that off 'til Obama is out of office, but they'll eventually go after Oreos. I hope you people like granola, and I hope you like seaweed kelp. And I hope you enjoy eating raw soybeans because that's where the children of Obama are going to take us if they're allowed to.
Caedite eos. Kill them all.
You know, I try to avoid nitrates, etc. on principle, just like I buy organic fruit when I can afford it. I prefer fewer chemicals in my food. But I'm not going to sue anybody over it. Nobody held these people down and forced them to eat hot dogs. It's not like the producers are maliciously adding carcinogens to food with the express purpose of giving us all cancer.
And that's the whole thing. If one thinks hot dogs cause cancer, one shouldn't eat them -- and then refrain from suing on behalf of people one doesn't know who disagree with one.
The thing I wonder about is why they didn't go to the FDA with this. Probably because they knew the FDA would laugh them out of the room.
I think these people need to get a life. Although did actually learn one thing from their rant that surprised me. I was surprised that Hebrew National's hot dogs contain many of the additives that other hot dogs do.
I assumed that there would be more of a difference between their hot dogs and their competitors than all of the meat in their hot dogs is beef not pork. Obviously I was wrong.
Basically, the additives are kosher, I guess.
They do however claim that the big premium dogs they sell at Fenway Park do not contain additives.
So I wonder if the foodies got their facts correct.
Aw, the dirty, lowdown so-and-sos...! Mencken described 'em to a T as "suffering the secret, sneaking fear that someone, somewhere was having a good time." Dammit, I'm seriously considering smokin' the occasional cigarillo just 'cos they think I should not. --And I'm a former nicotine addict.
I cannot believe that poll...it's basically tied. What is wrong with people?!?!
I wrote about this too...they can have my hot dogs when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers. heh...though I guess if the dogs kill me with cancer then they'll be easy to pry. =)
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