Reacting to Joey Chestnut being banned from 2024 Nathan’s hot dog eating...

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 ! ". ( my thoughts on these hot dog eating contests back in 2014 ).