The Weinermobile is a 27-foot long vehicle shaped like a hot dog. Oscar Meyer sends it to different cities to promote its products and audition kids for an upcoming ad campaign. And at almost all stops it's been met by animal rights protesters. Much of the rhetoric, in fact, resembles the rhetoric used against the tobacco industry. Every time you bite into a hot dog you are biting into pesticides, animal feces, ground-up animal parts and antibiotics that have been pumped into the animals.
People are out there to have fun.
What happens is that parents get upset when activists yell at them. Parents don't want someone making their child feel guilty because they don't believe in a vegetarian diet, and they don't want their kids yelled at. Parents feel they have rights to choose how they live. St. Louis, August 1998. Copyright 1998-2001 by Brian Carnell .