PCRM hot dog commercial...needs your vote!
Posted by little2ant on Aug 27, 2008 · Member since Aug 2004 · 3055 posts
The Associated Press has come out with a new article about The Cancer Project’s hot dog commercial. While the story doesn’t get all the facts right, it is bringing some great exposure to the commercial and spreading the word about the risks posed by processed meats.
Now, AOL is now conducting an online poll about our commercial and I’d like to ask you to vote:
VOTE HERE!
The poll asks whether the commercial goes too far. I’d like to suggest that you vote that it doesn’t go far enough, except that’s not an option.
So please vote “No.”
Thank you!
Neal Barnard, MD
President
Yeah, definitely doesn't go far enough. Chemistry lesson for the day. In organic chemistry there's this great reagent called HONO (which is kind of like "OH NO!") which is just a non-ionized form of sodium nitrate... a preservative in like every processed meat ever. So in organic chemistry you use it to attack nitrogen bonds on aromatic rings...which DNA and RNA are as well. So lets put this together shall we? Sodium nitrate (hot dogs) attacks bonding nitrogens (DNA). That looks a lot like cancer if you were wondering. Yeah, chemistry tells you a lot of things that will kill you. But the FDA doesn't care until clinical studies have been done.
wow....interesting! i wonder if they can be made without sodium nitrate? not that id eat em or anything...just wondering how necessary it is. is it a preservative?
yeah it is a preservative. I wonder that too. It is used in a lot of foods, but there are tons of alternatives around. Preservatives tend to not be good. It's really just one of the many processed foods that contains dangerous chemicals that we will be kicking ourselves for eating ten years down the road.
my mom buys nitrate free meats only, so they do exist...my dad says they taste different, but he will only eat yucky oscar meijer haha so i dont know how much his tastes can be trusted.
Yeah, so I voted "no" and saw the results. Most have voted "yes" - wtf.
i can't believe 61% say it goes too far. what?
it doesn't go far enough. amazing what some people think when what they believe has been shaken a bit.
Now 65% say it goes too far.
Goes too far in what way? Would so many people say that those "Truth" tobacco ads go too far? They are essentially the same thing.
My theory is that many parents do know, deep down, that hot dogs are bad for their kids. They just don't want their kids to see this commercial and get scared. They want to keep being able to shove a hotdog down Johnny's gullet without guilt everytime they go to a ball game. Plus, an attack on hotdogs is an attack on America, you commies. Terrorists, one and all.
"Hot dogs typically contain muscle meat trimmings from pork or beef. Contrary to legend, they do not contain animal eyeballs, hooves or genitals, according to the Hot Dog Council's Janet Riley. But the government does allow them to contain pig snouts and stomachs, cow lips and livers, goat gullets and lamb spleens."
Oh, ok. That's a relief.
Now 65% say it goes too far.
Goes too far in what way? Would so many people say that those "Truth" tobacco ads go too far? They are essentially the same thing.
My theory is that many parents do know, deep down, that hot dogs are bad for their kids. They just don't want their kids to see this commercial and get scared. They want to keep being able to shove a hotdog down Johnny's gullet without guilt everytime they go to a ball game. Plus, an attack on hotdogs is an attack on America, you commies. Terrorists, one and all.
"Hot dogs typically contain muscle meat trimmings from pork or beef. Contrary to legend, they do not contain animal eyeballs, hooves or genitals, according to the Hot Dog Council's Janet Riley. But the government does allow them to contain pig snouts and stomachs, cow lips and livers, goat gullets and lamb spleens."
Oh, ok. That's a relief.
i agree because almost everyone said they rarely to never eat hot dogs.