45 Slices of Pizza. Really?

I have incredible disdain for competitive eating. Am I the only one?

Today there is a news story about the guy who wins the Nathan's hot dog contest every year. This time he has eaten 45 slices of pizza! Wow. Everyday when I walk to work I see about 5 homeless people asking for food, etc. In Haiti, mothers are making mud "cookies" to feed to their children, because there isn't anything else to eat, and no one can afford the bread in the stores, when there is any.

But yes, this dude is going to go out and consume his body weight in pizza slices.

It's like taking a full oil tanker, overturning it on your front lawn, and then going to fill your gas tank up with $5/gallon gas down the street.

Gluttony. Isn't that one of those "sins" Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt were talking about?