Please compare and contrast these two articles which appeared today in the Chicago Tribune:
Group Says Hot Dogs Should Carry A Warning Label
Lettuce Recalled Due To Salmonella
As a footnote, I would like to mention that many vegetables, such as celery, spinach, and kale, contain a significant amount of nitrates, which is converted by bacteria in our mouths to nitrites. This is why many organic hot dogs contain celery juice extract and bacterial cultures to convert the nitrate in the celery juice to nitrite. This allows them to be packaged "nitrite free" despite the fact that they do contain nitrite, just not as an explicit additive. Yes, this annoys me to no end.
