They might start saying it, but they would be dead wrong. There are many foods that are fatty, but healthy. Peanuts and Salmon and Tuna all come immediately to mind. Plus there are entire diets devoted to eating more fat and less carbs. Should we outlaw all white flour? Just all refined flour? How about sugar? Who makes the determination of what is healthy? Some see the current government food pyramid as insanely unhealthy, and the past ones as criminal! Big Brother, Big Government, and Nanny Statism are all bad, no matter the situation.

Accurate warnings, clearly posted on food, and/or climbing areas allow intelligent individuals to make their OWN decisions. Whenever we allow government to make those decisions for us, we lose. We lose personal freedom, we lose self-respect, we lose accountability. We gain quite literally nothing as every law I've read in this area has created more harm than good. About the only law I would support would be to increase food labeling requirements and make them more consistent - perhaps similar with regard to risky outdoor activity. I imagine that requiring climbers to read warnings would help, but some people still wouldn't read them or wouldn't stop at the ranger station before embarking. Does that mean that a professional team should be required to jump through hoops for a license? And presumably there would be a nice price attached to that. My guess is that tourist dollars already pay a large part of SAR activity and volunteers make up the rest. Why should there be any concern whatsoever about the costs of rescue? If it's too costly, it won't happen or will be all volunteer. That makes the climb riskier and presumably less active, and thus bringing down the requirement for SAR dollars. Ah, the free market works wonders.

Why should I not be able to make such a decision in the future based on the stupidity of others? There are so many a##hats in this world that we would have to protect everything so carefully as to make life painfully boring, bland, and restrictive. That's not to say that regulation isn't important, but regulation of industry, commerce, environment, and other larger things we can't control directly... that's what government can do for us. The rest of it? Well, that's up to us to do right (or wrong, as the case may be). In the end, there will be fewer and fewer "wrong" choices as they either Darwin themselves or smarten up and learn their lesson.

Now... I'd like to go eat my chili cheese dog in peace while I wash it down with a nice 32 oz. Mountain Dew. :-) That's why I work hard to pay for health insurance (among other things) right? Oh, and emergency medicine costs have all the uninsured already built in. Why socialize it?