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Related: About this forumHow Hot Dogs Are Made
Glosses over the torturing and butchering of the pigs, cows, and chickens.
Also glosses over how much rat feces and insects are 'added' as the animal 'trimmings' are en route to/within the seemingly clean hot dog factory.
elleng
(130,973 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)elleng
(130,973 posts)liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)Everyday made you think about graduating college that much more.
The money was good for 1978 though!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Ya, I've known what was REALLY inside the dogs...de---nile!
But I still get the urge for one every so often.
ffr
(22,670 posts)I like the idea, but rarely eat hot dogs anymore. Gross!
marble falls
(57,102 posts)Kali
(55,014 posts)animals by definition require butchering to become meat, torture is subjective hyperbole
despite all that, the video was surprisingly NOT as gross as I would have thought
oldironside
(1,248 posts)... if you can put up with Dan Snow's over abundant enthusiasm. The sequence on sausage making is truly nauseating.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Sausage scene.
Disgusting!
oldironside
(1,248 posts)They did two other episodes which are up on youtube - Medieval London and Revolutionary Paris. Paris should be familiar to anyone who's seen Perfume: Story Of A Murderer, and the London episode makes you wonder how anyone survived living there.
jeanmarc
(1,685 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)but even in my meat-eating days, I would not eat hot dogs because I knew what was in them.