Pediatricians push for hot dogs to get warning label

[NeoV]

I love it when the simple-minded jump up and down over every little thing in an effort to somehow prove that they are smarter than everyone else - and in doing so often completely miss the point.

The real take-away from this isn't teaching your children how to chew - as the op stupidly comments - the issue here is educating parents of the real need to properly cut hot dogs up for small children.

You can laugh about it all you want - but dozens of kids die each year from choking on hot dogs that are either uncut or cut in sections that leave the original width as is, which happens to be the perfect design for plugging a small human's throat.

but go ahead - jump up and down and tell everyone how you lived even though you ate hot dogs every day growing up, blah blah blah - we suck, what's next - a label on exhaust pipes saying "do not inhale"? etc, etc.

Way to once again miss the point.

 

[dmcowen674]

Hot dogs = awesome population control

 

[guyver01]

A hot dog does not need a warning lable regarding a choking hazard.

if your little short bus spawn can't chew properly... there are other options.

cut the pieces smaller than their mouth.
use a food processor and make it a meat shake.

 

[irishScott]

I love it when the simple-minded jump up and down over every little thing in an effort to somehow prove that they are smarter than everyone else - and in doing so often completely miss the point.

The real take-away from this isn't teaching your children how to chew - as the op stupidly comments - the issue here is educating parents of the real need to properly cut hot dogs up for small children.

You can laugh about it all you want - but dozens of kids die each year from choking on hot dogs that are either uncut or cut in sections that leave the original width as is, which happens to be the perfect design for plugging a small human's throat.

but go ahead - jump up and down and tell everyone how you lived even though you ate hot dogs every day growing up, blah blah blah - we suck, what's next - a label on exhaust pipes saying "do not inhale"? etc, etc.

Way to once again miss the point.

So we should teach to the lowest common denominator and degrade our culture to save the children? There will always be stupid parents, people will die, kids will die. Sucks but it's a fact of life. Slapping a warning label on something like this won't do anything more than make Oscar Mayer or whomever immune to lawsuits (which is why they'll probably do it, eventually).

Bottom line it is not the public's place to take care of the extreme minority of village morons to this degree. We do enough hand-holding as it is.

 

[Thump553]

At first blush this seems really stupid, but Brian Williams mentioned on the evening news that 20% of the ER visits for children choking are from hot dogs.

This certainly is a matter for parental education-it may be one of the things you don't think of that would be obvious with hindsight-but I doubt warning labels would be the best way to do that education. We get so many warning labels now they are routinely ignored. I suspect it is nearly universal to skip the warning pages in owners manuals these days-I know I do for the most part.

 

[feralkid]

20% of the ER visits for children choking are from hot dogs.

Godamnit, it doesn't matter if it could save us billions of dollars, I want to yell my outrage at the nanny state and call people stupid!

The government can waste my tax dollars on reimbursing hospitals for non-insured emergency room visits all it wants, as long as it doesn't put a sticker on my wieners!

Every true American knows this.