What's in a hot dog? Sometimes human DNA, this report found

A group called Clear Foods analyzed 345 hot dogs and sausages from 75 brands sold by 10 different retailers using "genomic technology to analyze the world's foods at a molecular level, ingredient by ingredient," the report states.

"Problems included substitutions and hygienic issues. Substitution occurs when ingredients are added that do not show up on the label. Hygienic issues occur when some sort of non-harmful contaminant is introduced to the hot dog, in most cases, human DNA...

"We encountered a surprising number of substitutions or unexpected ingredients. We found evidence of meats not found on labels, an absence of ingredients advertised on labels, and meat in some vegetarian products.

"Clear Food found human DNA in 2 percent of the samples, and in 2/3rds of the vegetarian samples."

Source: www.al.com...

Wow, this is really worrisome, especially with knowledge how much hod dog is popular in modern world as fast food.

Because my kid is vegetarian, we are getting vegetarian hot dogs, and now I wonder how did this brand do on this test... Might have to find detailed research.


Some of statistic on their page just sounds alarming: www.clearfood.com...

a reply to: SuperFrog

What's in a hot dog? Sometimes human DNA, this report found.

Reminds me of Motel Hell, one of the greatest bad movies of all time.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: SuperFrog

What's in a hot dog? Sometimes human DNA, this report found.

Reminds me of Motel Hell, one of the greatest bad movies of all time.

This has big 'Soylent Green Is People!!!' all over it...

What muppets eat hot dogs any ways it is made from all the bad parts of a animal , lips etc

Mushrooms you keep them in the dark and humour them

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Reminds me of Motel Hell, one of the greatest bad movies of all time.

Those were my thoughts exactly. That's Farmer Vincent at his best. As he says, "Meat's meat. A man's got to eat.

a reply to: SuperFrog

In the UK it's a big job just finding hotdogs that aren't made from 'mechanically retrieved' meat. That's were they hose off the bits and pieces off carcasses and put them back together with other bits nobody would want to eat. The American brand, French's, recently tried to crack the market with dogs that were genuine meat instead of genuine anuses, eyeballs and gristle - failed.

Finding human DNA doesn't bother me any more than the idea of anus in there does - both nasty. Just very curious what amount of human DNA is enough to show up? Are we talking scabs? Snot? Blood? Sweat?? The industry wouldn't last long if the workforce were constantly shedding fingertips and body parts in there.

a reply to: Skid Mark

Demented minds think alike.

im still dining some hot dogs today

Even as a kid (I'm talking early 1960s) we knew hot dogs were suspect. There were several large packing houses and meat processing plants in our city. People who worked at those places would tell horror stories about hot dogs,
the most common being, "All the refuse that's left over from processing is used to make the dogs."
I pictured a giant "hot dog vat" at the end of the processing line, where people threw the leftover junk.

But human DNA - from where?

originally posted by: kosmicjack
But human DNA - from where?

Spit, sweat, snot, boogers, or sweat. That's my guess.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus
Yes, yes they do.

originally posted by: kosmicjack

But human DNA - from where?

Ever see Thief, with James Caan?

Guuud movie.

In one scene the mob boss threatens him, "people will be eating your wife and kids in their hamburgers tomorrow and not even know it".

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus
It takes all kinds of critters....
to make Farmer Vincent's Fritters.

Be interesting to find out if the DNA matched employees that work where the samples come from, who's sneezing in the meat, not wearing gloves?

What if the samples don't match and are all different but mostly from a major company like Oscar Meyer?

They disappearing peeps in the balogna?

a reply to: ColeYounger

Oh my......... Is that the pied piper leading those kids off to the hotdog plant?

Even 2% seems a bit high for spit, snot, and fingertips.

It's even worse all processed meat is a carcinogen.
WHO
Comes with results that it's even more toxic then asbestos. .

So now I'm going to eat my sandwich with ham with salade. .

I can't help but think of the Charlene Downs case:

www.dailymail.co.uk...

a reply to: stormcell

Or John Candy's The Great Outdoors ... m.youtube.com...

2% isn't sometimes, it's a lot.

And, even in the vegetarian, so its not like you can just avoid it, don't eat hotdogs or sausages.

They have put their sacrificial murders in all our food.

And you can't avoid it.

People need to end their ability to do this and form think tanks on how to get the suckers.