Joey Chestnut Eats 68 Hot Dogs to Win July 4th Contest: Should Competitive Eating be Banned?

Leave people alone, get your noses out everyone elses business. Also don't tell us yours! Enough of this I am really tired of it!

Dear Govt.: NOYFB.

Not banned . . . .
just not encouraged . . .
it's a public display of gluttony and pointless.

I recommend substituting it with a public water balloon fight.
That way more people can be involved (and have their aggressions alleviated in a fun way)

or ... we could all chase unicorns and try to trap their rainbow farts.

You start . . . here's a butterfly net . . . I'll take pictures . . . have fun, bro.

I'll leave it to you ... it's a public display of stupid and pointless.

Banning things should be banned...

Enough with wanting to ban everything. This is what happens when the government gets to much power. They are now responsible for our healthcare so they now think they have the power to decide what and how much we our allowed to eat, and what risky behaviors (as decided by them) we are allowed to par take in. Why do so many people want the government to have all this power over us? Why do you want to willingly enslave yourself to the state? This is not what America is about and is not what made us the greatest, most free, most prosperous country that ever was. So keep this up and we will soon fall into the ash heap of history. Yea yea, "it's just a stupid hotdog eating contest". No, no it isn't, this is just one more of a mountain of proposed bans, restrictions and regulations that take away our freedom and strangle our industry and are destroying us.

Bottom line: Most people don't WANT to think for themselves. It's disgusting, but also maybe it's some kind of built in subconcios mechanism where most people follow the "leaders" like sheeple.

Well, think about it; it's just so much easier to "let go and let government". To be told what to do, what to think, how to act. So much less complicated that way, with no decisions to make, no choices to weigh, no individual liberties.....paradise. Isn't it?

Not Americans, that is what has always made us different from the rest of the world. The ones now have bee conditioned by liberals to think that way. They are taught that they are not good enough themselves, they need the government to help them. Then after getting more and more help they finally become dependents of the state.

You know what food Nazis? Stop worrying, stop trying to fix everybody's problems, and LET PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY WANT!!!
I'm not a fan of hot dogs per se, but I could probably competitively chow on some pizza. Preferably Sicilian; the square slices.

There's a local brand, DiCarlo's; best it the whole damn world. They're all over the place around here. If you're ever in the upper Ohio Valley/Nothern Panhandle of WV/Eastern Ohio area and see one, give it a try. You won't be sorry. DeFelice pizza is really good, too. They're also local. It was actually voted the Best Pizza in America several years running, at a national competition.

The government runs healthcare now, so they think they can control any behavior they deem unhealthy! Welcome to liberal tyranny!

Nice to see someone else getting it. There are more and more of us, though, all the time.

I hope it's enough, because we are quickly approaching the point of no return.
Keep fighting the good fight...I am with you!

it dont make any since why it should be banned

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There's no way to ban people from eating too much so I don't see how you can ban competitive eating.

Watch them!

People should have the freedom to have such compititions. If you ban them they'll just go unofficial. But they should be discouraged in my opinion. Gluttony on that scale is pretty disgusting.

I would not do it but then the nanny state we live in wants to regulate everything including how much gas we are allowed to pass I think

Welcome to liberal tyranny!

Yup... On the Five yesterday they were talking about how Bloomberg was wanting to ban Big Gulps and then he pushes the hot dog eating contest. lol. I understand the winner ate 26,000 calories. Wow!

Don't worry; if they get the ban on large sodas in, the food contests will follow.

They no what's best for you....don't ya know. And if you don't think so, they will make you do it anyway.

Lol no.

that should banned along with public speech and laughter

If you don't like it, don't pay attention to it. I rarely believe in the banning of things, especially something as trivial as this.

Just like any other health risk, as long as the participants know about them it's entirely up to them.

its entertaining and at times gross. whats not to love.

It's disgusting.

So everything you decide is disgusting should be banned?

No, I was simply saying that I think competitive eating is disgusting... And unhealthy. And wasteful.

Yes, and you also said it should be banned because of that. I know it seems like a minor issue, but when we get into the business of banning things we don't like we find ourselves on the fast-lane to tyranny.

I apologize. I answered this question quickly and when I was half-asleep last night.

Well not banned I guessed, but people should just realize how pointless and stupid it is.

So are cake baking contests and track meets and baseball games...should they all be banned?

and vegetarians and vegans and charlie sheen and madonna and obie and dingy harry and pelosi galore ... and ... and.

Yes, and I don't want them banned, I just want them out of power because they are the problem I am talking about.

Precisely ... except harry and nancy ... they need to be exiled.