Get a look at this photo from our friends at the American Meat Institute (AMI): white flour spaghetti topped with hot dog slices and processed cheese—it’s a nutritional bonanza perfect for kids! The caption reads:
This recipe for Hot Dog Spaghetti uses cut portions of hot dogs suitable for children, fun too.
Fun? What sort of mother would feed this crap to her child?
The photo accompanies the AMI’s response to this week’s recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics that hot dogs be labeled a choking hazard. The AMI’s response:
It is important to evaluate the impact the presence of those warning labels has had on choking incidents associated with hot dogs and whether or not those labels have been effective in preventing choking incidents.
So, while they’re dragging their feet doing this evaluation, why not immediately begin labeling all hot dogs as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends? Yet another example of the meat industry’s warped priorities. Link.
