3. Claim: The sausages served in the free and reduced-price breakfast program should be considered junk food.
Evidence: Inexpensive sausages of the sort served in these breakfasts contain up to 50% fat and have a salt content of 2-3 %. They are additionally cured with salt and sodium nitrite, making them very salty. The meat itself comes from every part of the pig, meaning that a sausage may include bone remnants, intestines, internal organs, ground hooves, and other parts that few people would eat by choice.
Warrant: We already have an obesity problem so considering something with up to 50% fat healthy would be a joke. The salt content, being 2-3% of the whole sausage, would lead to heart and blood problems if too many are eaten on a daily basis. Most people really wouldn't consider eating these things if they knew it had THAT much salt and pig parts in it to begin with. The reduced-price sausages should be considered junk food because of their clear health hazards. Healthy sausages would not contain that much fat or disgusting parts. By choice, people would not eat those parts of a pig and hopefully would consider their weight before eating that much fat content.
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