In talking to CPAC this week, George Will noted that the “agenda of dependence” is enabled by trial lawyers, the cultural result being the infantilization of the populace with warning labels like, “Do not fold stroller while child is inside.”
As if on cue, a call for warning labels on foods that could choke your kids:
The American Academy of Pediatrics lists hot dogs as the highest risk food for young kids. Grapes, raw carrots, apples and peanuts are also dangerous. Smith said he has treated many children who later died from choking on hot dogs and grapes.
Common sense itself should be sufficient to deal with this problem, but in the absence of that, we have common-sense tips from doctors:
• Avoid giving toddlers other high-risk foods such as hard candy, nuts, seeds and raw carrots.
And, for those who have neither common-sense nor the sense to be properly scared silly by hyperventilating news coverage, we’ll certainly soon have federal legislation. For the children, don’t you know?
I will be working alongside them—Err, what would you call them? Big Hot Dog seems mildly inappropriate.— on the Hot Dog Anti-Defamation Act to counter the labeling legislation.
