The New York State Legislature just passed a bill which would require warning labels on sippy cups. The new tags would caution parents about childhood tooth decay which supposedly increases when the kid is put to bed with a sippy hanging out of his mouth.
“I can show you photos of children who go to bed with sippy cups,” said Mark Feldman, executive director of the New York’s Dental Association, which lobbied for the bill. “All you see are little black stumps – that is all that is left of the teeth,” he added.
Oh, please shut up.
It seems no one mentioned that today most parents fill their kids with syrupy, sugary drinks the moment they open their mouths. Or the fact that most baby food has a large amount of sugar in it. Sugar has been proven to be one of the factors in dental decay.
Obviously if kids drink the stuff all day and suck on it all night, it will not be good for their teeth. But if parents are stupid enough to give kids sweet drinks all day and night, they’re probably too dumb to read the damn labels anyway.
We need a new law for this?