The Hot Dog report includes a history of how the typical hot dog makes it to your table, the high-level results of our tests, a breakdown of the highest scoring hot dogs on the market and our shopping recommendations.
Source: Clear Food – The Hot Dog Report
A report from Clear Food found that 2% of the hot dog and sausage products they tested contained human DNA.
UN Scientists have classified processed meats as carcinogenic and red meat as probably carcinogenic. This will be another headache for Canadian parents who commonly pack ham or baloney sandwiches into the lunches their children take to school. It is also a blow to the summertime tradition of cooking hot dogs, hamburgers and steaks on the…
Overall, the Working Group classified consumption of processed meat as “carcinogenic to humans” (Group 1) on the basis of sufficient evidence for colorectal cancer. Additionally, a positive association with the consumption of processed meat was found for stomach cancer.
The Working Group classified consumption of red meat as “probably carcinogenic to humans” (Group 2A). In making this evaluation, the Working Group took into consideration all the relevant data, including the substantial epidemiological data showing a positive association between consumption of red meat and colorectal cancer and the strong mechanistic evidence. Consumption of red meat was also positively associated with pancreatic and with prostate cancer.
Source: Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat – The Lancet Oncology
On the first day of my vacation last week, I had just finished covering myself in sunscreen when I felt my knees go weak. I ran for the bathroom, where my body cleared itself of its contents with the fury of a surface-to-air missile. Almost as suddenly, my back and legs started feeling like they had been pounded with meat mallets. I crawled into bed, and there I stayed for the next 24 hours. If I had, at that point, possessed enough strength to shake my fist at the heavens, I would have done so and said, “Damn you, norovirus!”
Source: The stomach-flu mystery
Andrew Phillip Chernoff 