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EARTHDATE: February 28, 2010

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REAL LIFE NEWS: HOT DOGS ARE MURDERING OUR CHILDREN

by Hazed

There's a major threat to the lives of American children, which the American Academy of Pediatrics has identified. No, it's not child abuse or road traffic - it's hotdogs!

Killer hotdogs are "a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children, especially those aged 3 years or younger," says a report in the academy's journal. 77 US children a year choke to death on the deadly sausages, and up to 15,000 require emergency treatment.

Of the total food-related chokings, roughly 17% are caused by hot dogs.

"If you were to take the best engineers in the world and try to design the perfect plug for a child's airway, it would be a hot dog," said the lead author of the report, Gary Smith. "To try to get them out once they're wedged in, it's almost impossible."

And so the Academy is called for this deadly foodstuff to be redesigned: "Food manufacturers should design new food and redesign existing food to minimize choking risk."

Or, perhaps, parents should stop feeding whole hot dogs to young children, and instead should cut them up into small pieces first!

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