Sausage industry blasts 'Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer' ad

A billboard is advising people that hot dogs cause "butt cancer" — and the hot dog industry is not amused. The billboard is one of a series of ads being put up in major US cities by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, or PCRM, urging people to stop eating hot dogs, which it says are a leading cause of colon and other cancers.



The National Hot Dog & Sausage Council reacted immediately to the billboard. Calling the ad "outrageous" and "inflammatory," the trade group dismissed the PCRM as a "pseudo-medical animal rights group" bent on turning all Americans into vegans.

Just this week, the Harvard School of Public Health published the results of a 28-year survey tracking the diet and health of 122,000 medical professionals, which indicated that eating a daily serving of red meat increased the risk of early death by 13 percent.



Barack Obama and David Cameron were too busy stuffing their faces and metaphorically slapping each other on the back to comment.

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