Topic: Processed food

Mitt Romney and hotdogs (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mitt Romney's alien ode to hot dogs

Ashlie D. Stevens
Variety of packaged food (Getty Images/Archive Photos)

Processed foods are making us sick

Matthew Rozsa

Lindsay Abrams
(TFoxFoto/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
Ground beef (V. J. Matthew/Shutterstock)

The return of "pink slime"

Lindsay Abrams
(Rob Wilson/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Taco Bell)

Lindsay Abrams
(Cheryl Casey/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
KFC's Double Down (KFC)

Lindsay Abrams
(TimUR/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Wikimedia Commons)

Lindsay Abrams
(FDA)

Lindsay Abrams
(yienkeat/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Wikimedia Commons)

Lindsay Abrams
(aperturesound/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Lightspring/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(John Gough/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Tim UR/Shutterstock)

Less than 50 percent chicken

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1343185p1.html'>AdStock RF</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Chicken is killing the planet!

Deena Shanker
(Reuters/Fred Prouser)

Fast food won't cure obesity

Deena Shanker
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-91282p1.html'>Pressmaster</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Labs create fast-food flavor

Melanie Warner