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

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Miroku129

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But are there any dogs in them!?

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A Fish Aficionado

I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
To create the score, each item is molecularly analyzed through our proprietary DNA sequencing workflow.

that sounds scientish. I trust them wholeheartedly.
 
misleading title?
they are not talking about human meat, but fecal matter, and that is no news at all

...how.

Isn't the process mostly automated? Don't they wear gloves when handling it?

I can't imagine someone shitting in the pink paste before it's in hot dog form.
 

DJ_Lae

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I don't think anyone eats a hot dog expecting a choice selection of meat cuts rather than an odd assortment of scrapings from the slaughterhouse floor.

The vegetarian dogs being more contaminated is far more interesting.
 
So they don't actually say which brands to avoid (mostly regarding the meat and humans in vegetarian products)?

Well, I guess it's a good thing I stopped eating veggie dogs a few years ago.
 

NewFresh

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To create the score, each item is molecularly analyzed through our proprietary DNA sequencing workflow.

that sounds scientish. I trust them wholeheartedly.

I was going to say the same thing. As someone who has does species testing of food stuffs, it's incredibly inaccurate even with the most exact methods, let alone their own proprietary one.
 
don't we shed dna fragments pretty much everywhere? i just assume that stuff is everywhere so i don't care. i'm pretty sure you could find pigeon dna fragments in the orange juice i just drank.
 
two things:

1) it wouldn't be even remotely shocking to find that basically everything we consume has traces of human dna in it. dna is pretty easy to shed.

2) speaking of how promiscuous dna can be, without observing extremely strict sample prep technique and working in a laminar flow hood or other apparatus designed to minimize contamination, there's a high probability that the examiner's dna slipped into the sample.
 

richiek

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Don't meatpacking workers get injured (bleed, lose body parts) while on the job?

That would explain the human DNA.
 

Daria

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fuuuuuuuu i can't eat another veggie dog again. granted all of those processed foods are garbage, this still saddens me
 
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