No editorials condemn hot -dog-pig contests

    I know no readers of the Providence Journal will lose any sleep over this non-controversy: those gross 4th of July hot dog eating contests. In a country where so many people need EBT cards- where  real American citizens do go hungry- is it not obscene to hand out accolades for piggish humans ?

        Why should these hot dog eating contests not be controversial ? And not condemned by the New England Journal of Medicine ?  Is it really harmless to down 60 hotdogs in a few  minutes ?  I read somewhere ( A Ralph Nader report, I recall ) that  the classic hot dog ingredients  include chopped cow eyeballs , bits of large intestines with sterilized fecal matter, ground bones, sliced brains, pulverized teeth.

        And these gross contests all on You Tube for the entertainment of a half-starved world.  No, I do not laugh at religious zealots when they warn : " God will punish us !  "