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Making a Safer Hot Dog

Posted March 10, 2010 7:27 AM

Hot dogs are not a glamorous food, and they are often, well, the butt of many jokes because of their potential for dubious contents. But some pediatricians are arguing that the hot dog needs a serious overhaul, not because of its contents, but because they claim it is a choking hazard to small children. Should the food industry redesign the iconic hot dog, changing its shape and texture to make it safer? Or, should every hot dog package come with a warning?

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03/11/2010 10:04 AM

Should the food industry redesign the iconic hot dog, changing its shape and texture to make it safer? Or, should every hot dog package come with a warning?

Like cigarettes

IMO,

Choking hazard with hot dogs are a serious issue....as with choking hazard with grapefruit, meat, olives ........

Will you every eliminate the the danger. No, but sheltering your children is not going to help either. Talk with them, Know CPR, cut their food up and most importantly do some parenting and not let a huge corporation or government do this for you..

Has anyone as a child been told not to do something like "Don't touch that burner its hot you'll burn yourself" and do it anyways. Painful yes, but you learn at a young age the word consequences.

Know your child, if they are running around with food in their mouths, sit down and talk with them, they still might not understand, but parenting is never ending..... (even with the children is well into their 30's, 40's,.....) But it is easier if you started parenting them in at a young age.

Now as a parent things are going to happen, but as a parent do not try to child proof every thing the child needs to grow intellectually.

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03/11/2010 5:28 PM

Well spoken, and well said. GA!

Yours rings as the voice of reason, recognized above the din of poor parenting advice so commonplace today. And... you are not trying to sell me a book! I don't think

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03/19/2010 12:17 PM

What a joke. What happens when children being sheltered so much grow up and there is no longer anyone to keep an ever-present eye on them to tell them what to do and to protect them? They will not be able to function in the real world. People need to stop treating children as a commodity to protect and instead raise them to be functional, ultimately independent people.

Or, alternativly, after they degrade hot dogs to ity-bity weiner-bits, we can then work on eliminating stairs. You know, since you can trip and fall down them and hurt yourself. And car doors - cut. Actually, all doors to be safe. No more doors. And ban manufacturing anything that has a material hardness over 60A since you can hurt yourself with that, too.

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03/19/2010 12:26 PM

Check this out.....I especially like the segment 0:59-1:20 into the cartoon

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03/21/2010 9:55 PM

This news from the USA even made it "down under".

A citizen from the USA who happend to be on a talk show made a very inciteful comment.

She said something like "Here's the message America, there's this thing, like, where you open and close your jaws, like talking but with your lips shut. It's called "chewing". Do we really need to teach our children how to chew a hot dog?"

She seemed like a smart person!

She is a commedian down here for an annual commedy festival that's on this week.

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08/16/2010 3:02 PM

The Nanny state wants to help - yeah sure!

My dad went through a meat packing plant in Portland, OR. Didn't eat a hot dog for the rest of his years! After seeing the things made and what went into them he refused to have anything to do with them.

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