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> How are Bacon Bits made?
> What are the main ingredients?
> Do they actually contain meat?

Maybe; read the label. If it's real meat, then it's cooked and
crumbled or chopped. If it's not real meat, then it's extruded or
rolled and chopped or crumbled.

> Can people make them at home?

You can certainly crisp-fry thinly sliced bacon and crumble it; a far
superior solution, particularly if you use decent bacon with minimal
additives (Smithfield dry-cured bacon comes to mind).

Some amusing and informative links on the subject:
http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/bacon/bacon.html
http://www.montrealfood.com/baconbits.html
http://www.smithfieldhams.com/bacon/

-j