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?
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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.
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.
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*
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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