> So a bag of potato chips should come with a Safety Data Sheet? Or a QR code w/ link to SDS for those who care. > Maybe a big red tag attached to persimmons

> So a bag of potato chips should come with a Safety Data Sheet? Or a QR code w/ link to SDS for those who care. > Maybe a big red tag attached to persimmons in the produce department warning you they can cause bezoars? Great idea! I have not known about unripened persimmons causing bezoars, thank you! > The human race has made it this far without this degree of coddling. And no, I'm not suggesting we go back to the days of steak and cigarette sandwiches but people should be entrusted to make reasonable decisions without the need for scare tactics. Why put warnings on cigarettes / alcohol at all then? Why isn't that "too much coddling"? Human race will survive even if we go back to using leaded gasoline and asbestos (after all, it survived a period when that was common), so if that's the only goal you have, I think we're already there and the warnings are not reducing our chances. > (...) people should be entrusted to make reasonable decisions without the need for scare tactics. And how do you make sure that they do? What's reasonable for you is not the same as what's reasonable for me. What you think may be common knowledge may not be as common for others (TIL about persimmons).