Shocking Report Finds Human DNA In Good Old American Hot Dogs
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by Amanda Froelich
Earlier this July, True Activist released an article listing the many acceptable and disturbing ingredients commonly found in hot dogs. While that – and the World Health Organization’s recent declaration that processed meats cause cancer – dissuaded few, evidence that human DNA is in numerous brands of hot dogs might retire the frank fascination soon enough.
As 10 News reports, the company Clear Foods, which “uses genomic technology to analyze the world’s foods at a molecular level, ingredient by ingredient,” recently found traces of human DNA when examining 345 hot dog and sausage products from 75 brands and 10 retailers. The report was conducted to look at the accuracy of the content labels of several major hot dog brands. What they found is disgusting, to say the least.
Human DNA was found “in 2% of the samples, and in 2/3rds of the vegetarian samples.” In addition, 10 percent of all vegetarian products appeared to contain meat. Despite the unwanted add-ons in some of the hot dogs, Clear Foods reports that “there are a number of hot dog manufacturers, large and small, that are producing high-quality hot dogs with integrity.” Some of the better high-quality brands include Butterball, McCormick, Eckrich and Hebrew National. Gardein scored the highest in the specialty and regional categories. What are your thoughts on this news?
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Source: TrueActivist.com
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I am sorry if I offend the scientists who are trying to save our lives from everything, but I have had about enough of knowing the anything and everything in nature will kill me, including old age. In the last 3 or 4 decades it seems as if scientists simply sit around trying to find different things that “seem” bad for us. If most of this were true I would have been dead 40 or 50 years ago. In fact many of us born in the 40’s and 50’s would be dead. Here lately I do adhere to the “everything in moderation” motto simply because my old body just does not tolerate things the way it used to. But I still love my hot dogs, barbecue, a good medium rare steak on occasion, char broil hamburgers, and a multitude of other things. Maybe one of these days one of these will kill me, but life is more than living in fear of everything on the planter that can kill you. It will just as likely be getting behind the wheel of my car one day to go to the store and getting run over be a damned vegetarian.
I don’t mean to sound like Johnnie Cochran, but how do we know that allegedly human DNA didn’t originate in the testing lab? If hot dogs are pre-cooked, that would argue strongly that it was introduced after the sausage was produced as heat destroys DNA. Did someone sneeze in the lab? Was this finding reproduced by another testing lab? We should know that before jumping to conclusions, but that wouldn’t make for good, sensationalist journalism. As to the rest of the article, it’s a farrago of fallacies. More of a sensationalist and circular conclusion bolstered by floor sweepings of data scraps of mostly inaccurate, irrelevant, overgeneralized and of dubious provenance.
One more thing, if you won’t explain what “processed” means in this context, the article is devoid of meaning and no conclusion is justified. “Processed” sounds like just another gratuitous, all purpose epithet, like “Natural.” Is it salt, is it spices? Are all dogs the same and if some are better than others are they less “processed” Inquiring minds need to know and you’re not telling us..
As I understand it the “DNA in Hot Dogs” rumor has been around for decades. No one, however, has been able to verify the cause, or even if it’s true.
Shades of Upton Sinclair! It would be nice to discuss possible origins – a stray hair, someone spit in the meat vat or as in The Jungle, someone fell into the machine. I sort of doubt that one very much. It’s also possible that the data is just wrong and not repeatable or that the DNA was introduced in the test itself and in fact I see evidence of data Gerrymandering to shore up a very shaky argument.
But hey, it’s almost Halloween and Anything horrible enough will gain a following and it’s customary to believe anyone writing expose’s – the scarier the better. Particularly effective when a bogeyman (the meat industry) is invoked to stifle doubt because we know that the National Enquirer is never wrong. Is it significant that we’re using a publication that thrives on scandal as a prime source and not JAMA or Cell, or Nature, or any peer reviewed journal? Perhaps, but at heart this is a very weak, fallacy laden article, full of un-sourced and silly claims: like Vitamin C is bad for you because it’s “artificial.”
There are so many questionable statements It’s too much to list them all, but remember the uproar about coffee and pancreatic cancer? After scaring millions of people away from coffee, it turned out to be totally bogus and now there are real studies showing it’s good for you. even though it’s nearly impossible to kill nasty memes and many people still think cold air causes a virus or Alar will kill you or apple juice is poison or gluten does something or other as does fructose. Don’t forget the Vaccine hoax. I’m suggesting that science doesn’t jump to conclusions as readily as True Activist does nor does it persist when proven wrong.
Is it the salt in hot dogs that’s bad for you? Well then many foods contain salt, but you don’t go after them because people would laugh. Sure, they Might contain GMO soy, but it’s not very likely nor is there any evidence whatsoever that it would be harmful in any way if it did. You don’t assimilate DNA from what you eat, you know – and it’s destroyed by cooking. If your mother told you you’d turn into a hot dog from eating too many, she was joking, OK? Going into shock from red dye is pretty rare and not a reason for people not to eat it.
Fluoridated Water? Are you serious? That’s tin foil cap stuff just like saying potassium salts are evil even though you’ll find them in bananas and they are necessary for life.
Perhaps eating meat with salt and spices increases risks of pancreatic cancer, but it’s not just hot dogs and the cult-like repetition of the undefined term “processed.” Hot water is “processed” Cooked meat is processed and come to think of it so is raw meat. Are we asking about what component makes something you already shouldn’t eat a lot of worse? No, that might be less scary.
It’s one thing to cite one study, but with all the variables inherent in such a survey, we can’t isolate the variable nor do we know whether it’s a double blind, randomized study either, or that other studies support the conclusion we’re jumping to out of hypochondria.
As I said, there are far too many included fallacies, premature conclusions on limited data, red herrings and circular arguments to treat here, but as the title suggests, the purpose of this is to shock, not to inform. Let’s just talk about “processed” foods and attack hot dogs in general. As with all such claims about gluten, about modified foods, “processed” foods — the war on grain, on fructose and all the rest, like the benefit of “organic” food, it’s 99% speculation and nearly evidence free and we’re still living twice as long as we used to.