Are hotdogs moral? I'm sure at least one of you has seen the videos of hotdogs being made, a slew of meat and water, being shoved into a plastic-looking tube. It looks disgusting. And if you haven't seen one of those videos, I suggest you watch one before finishing my blog post. It's incredible how efficiently the hotdogs can be made using only a paste of meat and hundreds of casings
Anyways, what I'm trying to get at is that hotdogs are a strange food. And I hope by watching whatever video you did you aren't scared off from eating hotdogs. But, in my opinion, they are actually a wonder food. The thing is, hotdogs are made out of what would normally just be thrown away but are instead packaged into little sausages. To make any kind of meat you must take the life of another animal. Animals, along with being sentient creatures with complex lives of their own, require immense time and effort to raise. Normally 60 PERCENT of a cow is thrown away. However, by making hotdogs, this almost 15.9 billion pounds of beef each year can be put back into a human's diet.
Not only is this ethically good, but hotdogs are also incredibly inexpensive. This allows them to be easily purchased by lower-income families and higher alike, as they have a simple, meaty flavor almost unanimously loved. The hotdog is a food you can prepare in almost any medium, with any starch, and any sauce. The flavor is mild, but not so mild that it can't be eaten alone, having just enough spices. They're fairly filling, even if not healthy.
In conclusion, the hot dog is a food source that is incredibly efficient and brings new value to waste products like offal and fat. The nearly 60% of a cow that is normally completely lost is put into you in the form of a hotdog. And, to conclude I would like to say a quote I heard from some guy on the internet. "When you eat a hotdog, it never really ceases to become a hotdog. You see, a hotdog is just meat wrapped in an intestine, so in a way when you eat a hotdog, you become the hotdog.
I don't know too much about making hotdogs but I could see your point. I think what stops me from completely agreeing is the fact that actually because of the large demand for hot dogs, more animals might be mistreated to make up for that demand. What I just said could perhaps be false but I just wished to share my opinion on the matter, nice blog post.
ReplyDeleteI am a vegetarian, so I don't ever eat hot dogs. However, if I were to eat meat, and think eating meat of any kind is ethical (which I don't), I would completely agree with your argument. Food waste, especially meat waste, is a giant problem in the world, and if hot dogs are stopping that, they're doing good. Still, I don't think that makes them okay at all. Meat is terrible for the environment, and incredibly unethical, and while what they're doing with hotdogs make them better, they're still not ethically good.
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