(August 27, 2008)--A new TV attack ad that shows children eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria is raising some eyebrows.
In the ad, one little boy says, "I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer,” but the boy doesn’t have cancer and neither do the other two children in the ad who also claim to be afflicted.
The commercial's pro-vegetarian sponsors say the ad is a dramatization that highlights research linking processed meats, including hot dogs, with higher odds of getting colon cancer, but that connection is based on studies of adults, not children.
Several nutritionists familiar with the ad say hot dogs aren't exactly a "health food," but say eating one every now and then probably isn’t harmful.
Americans as a whole eat hot dogs more than occasionally.
According to the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, U.S. consumers spent more than $4 billion on hot dogs and sausages last year.
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