I think this is over board. Soon enough everything is going to have a warning label "may cause cancer." Where do we draw the line?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Well, in CA, this has been the law for years.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Great. Now you got me wanting fries. Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I could deep fry you some Tante.
Posted by Miriya (Member # 7822) on :
Warning: Breathing may be hazardous to your health.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
And not breathing definitely is.
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
This reminds me of that one quote from Family Guy:
Stewie: I've heard starlight gives you cancer. Then again, what doesn't these days?
Posted by Miriya (Member # 7822) on :
Not eating is also hazardous to one's health... and I can't think of anything off hand you can eat that isn't bad for you in some way or other.
Moderation is key.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I practice abstinence, but only in moderation.
--Enigmatic
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I tried to practice moderation in moderation, but I got confused.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Every time I hear something like this, I think of cyclamates.
What are cyclamates (I think I spelled it correctly), you might ask. Because unless you are around my age or older, you probably never heard of it.
Cyclamates were a kind of artificial sweetener. But someone got started with the lab rats and there was cancer found and cyclamates were banned. Except that it turned out that in order to get a proportional amount in a human equal to the amount that caused cancer in the rats, a person would have to drink something like several thousand glasses of cyclamate-sweetened Kool-Aid a day for a very long time in order to be in any danger.
Silly.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Sounds like what I remember reading with regard to saccharine...
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by littlemissattitude: What are cyclamates (I think I spelled it correctly), you might ask. Because unless you are around my age or older, you probably never heard of it.
Or a chemist. The discovery of cyclamate's sweetening power is a classic serendipity-in-science (and don't-try-this-in-your-lab!) story.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Back on topic, I think the results of Prop. 65 have been mixed at best.
This is one of the stupider results, IMO.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
DHMO will kill you if inhaled.
Seriously, I think we have too many warning labels as it is. The government is trying to stop us from thinking. My dad and I were talking the other day. I had stated that it was one thing for the government to protect the citizens of its country. However, it is a whole other thing to babysit them.
*waits for pacifier*
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Stan the man: DHMO will kill you if inhaled.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Yep, I still laugh at that one.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
"The government is trying to stop us from thinking.
And precisely how are ya s'poseta think about possible health hazards when nobody is providing ya information.
Posted by Allegra (Member # 6773) on :
I do think that we should be adequately warned of our health risk when eating certain foods or doing certain things. I am just not sure that people that would bathe and dry their hair at the same time are contributing much to society.
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
Kind of a rediculous situation in my opinion. At some point, cancer labels cease to have any meaning. We might as well go ahead and put a warning on everything. That's the direction this is headed.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
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The discovery of cyclamate's sweetening power is a classic serendipity-in-science (and don't-try-this-in-your-lab!) story.
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