Answering the Rhetoric

Society has become numb to eating food with infant connotations: baby back ribs, baby carrots, baby corn. The saying having a “baby in the oven” may help desensitize society from the day when babies may actually be put into the oven ala A Modest Proposal. Considering the logic -no matter how faulty- behind Swift’s essay, why has it not been put in to action?… Or has it?

Is this a front from a mass child farm? Are they trying to alleviate suspicion by making the idea of an infant farm cute and innocent? A hospital is fitted with all the necessary instruments for butchering and has an infirmary to burn the evidence…

The truth is out there…

Baby in the oven becomes literal in Abu Dhabi, where airports already have diagrams such as this one:

Could such A Modest Proposal have been used in the recent American election campaigns? Why not? Maybe it would have helped McCain reach out to the urban youth…