We "grow" all our own meat.
I have made hotdogs before but by the time you add the "stuff" to make them taste like a hotdog......its kinda not appetizing. To make them the correct consistency and make them taste like a hotdog versus a sausage, you need them to cure. For that you need a LOT of salt....and sugar. To make it taste like a Ballpark, you cannot just use salt. Things like sodium nitrate and sodium erythobate potassium and a few other chemicals. Plus you need a lot of fat or organ meats for texture and taste. If you just use the usual hotdog spices...coriander, cumin, paprika, cinnamon...... but not the sodium and other chemicals, they just taste different than a hotdog.
Sausages on the other hand, we make them all the time......for us and to sell.
The biggest difference is you don't need to cure all sausages.
Just mix meat with spices(cooked or uncooked) into a casing, cook and enjoy.