Do the research

因噎廢食 (īnyēfèishí)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9B%A0%E5%99%8E%E5%BB%A2%E9%A3%9F
This is a Chinese proverb meaning "to avoid something essential because of a slight risk of making a mistake." Literally it means "to not eat due to the risk of choking on food."

I mean, this level of Darwinism would be fine. What grates me is not recognizing the effect it has on others.
Still seeking an analogy where not eating food somehow puts a neighbor or classmate at risk of starvation.

True, I usually refer to something similar: Do you know how many people die in bed every year? Perhaps we should ban beds.

Outstanding. This is what good satire looks like.

WARNING 100% OF CHILDREN EXPOSED TO DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE DIE!
- Actually, they die while not being children anymore
  Checkmate atheists
- 100% of children who are given food die, too. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
  
  Food is contaminated with dihydrogen monoxide! The contamination is widespread from every source. It even affects vegans

You know what every living autistic kid have in common? They all eat!
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- I would even be bold enough to say that Autistic adults eat.
  
  Yeah, but people are more afraid of autistic children.

To be fair, food is a significant contributor to the existence of adults. And we all know those are problems.
- 100% of pedophiles are adults if this didn’t convince you enough.
  
  On one hand, food gave us Hitler. On the other, that dude actually killed Hitler. So...
  
  Found one of the kingpins:
  https://www.feedingamerica.org/
  
  Unfortunately, this is simply not true. There are some sick teenagers out there...

Even then, starving your own children isn't going to cause their classmates and teachers and those people's families to also go hungry. OP's comparison is extremely forgiving to those dipshits.

"Do your research" is a dogwhistle and of course what it really means is "Google what you want to be true and read all the shit from morons like you who agree with you."
- Facebook intensifies

I would love it if antivaxxers stopped eating.
- They don't stop eating. They will stop their kids from eating because they have been already vaccinated, so they can't live without eating, but their children can
- I feel bad for the kids of parents who are forcing the crazy diets

I feel like it's probably worse than this. It should start with "I read about this thing called 'choking to death'".
Or better yet, take out "choking to death" (which can happen) and insert some made-up bullshit like "choking so hard your eyeballs pop out".
- But they are not afraid of children dying, that's totally fine. They're afraid their kids might become "weird". Because that is how they see autism, as being weird.
  And as everybody knows weird is literally worse than death.
  
  One thing that I think causes a big divide in perceptions of autism is that most people perceive it almost exclusively from one side of the spectrum or the other.
  Around 1 in 30 kids will have a little more difficulty adapting to society... It's good to recognize their needs and support their growth.
  No, wanting to prevent/treat/manage a profound and debilitating disease isn't genocide.
  
  I actually bothers me that parents hate there kids that much.
  Can you just be happy with who they are?
  
  Always conform, self must be denied in favor of the manufactured self
  
  "You know, darling, it's so much more important to look good than to be weird."

If you want to be really pissed, read up on ~~doctor~~ disgraced former doctor, lifelong charlatan and grifter Andrew Wakefield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
He abused autistic kids in a medical experiment that was meant to convince both the public and the scientific community that a specific combined vaccine (measles-mumps-rubella, a.k.a MMR) could trigger some kind of bowel disease that causes autism, all so he could peddle his own alternative that is three separate shots.
- And here's the kicker: he did that because he was financially invested in the company producing the older, separate vaccines.

Sounds like the type of person who won't give their kids ~~hydrogen~~ dihydrogen monoxide either because it can cause even metals to oxidate
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_parody
- hydrogen monoxide
  Dihydrogen monoxide
  One of these things is bleach.
  
  Do you mean Hydrogen Peroxide (H₂O₂)? I don’t think hydrogen monoxide can stably exist
  
  Bleach is Sodium Hypochloride. NaClO not HO
  
  Thanks! I hope I haven't killed someone (or cured them of something), before I corrected it!
  
  Beach is actually a great cure for Autism. Just murder those who look different.
- Dihydrogen monoxide has a higher PH than Hydrochloric acid.
  
  It has the highest PH of any acid you may actually encounter in a bottle.
- Hydroxic acid is a better name.

Do the kids get a vote?

People would rather there kids die of Measles than have Autism
Obviously vaccines/environmental factors/food coloring doesn't cause Autism but if we play along with the RFK Jr. narrative that's basically what they are saying. Also the RFK Jr. research is specifically funding people can find a link. They will find a link because of conformation bias.

I got 3 vaccinations today for a trip to Asia for Hep A, Typhoid and Tetanus. Two jabs in one arm and one in the other. Because while getting vaccinated isn't pleasant (sore arms and mild flu like symptoms) I would rather that than to the horrible, potentially life threatening illnesses they prevent.
- All those illnesses are nowhere near life threatening these days. Sure, in the past when you got Tetanus, you got it from some rusty nail possibly covered by fiecies of some farm animal, then it was most likely not cleaned, not even by alcohol... Today you probably get it properly cleaned and even disinfected practically immediately.
  While I also had Tetanus and other shots, I really dont consider them all that necessary these days as it was in the past. What Im however very weary is various aluminium and similar metals, especially in children vaccines. We have only studies of aluminium toxicity on rats, but those got it orally - which is a huge difference. We have no long term studies of aluminium oxides toxicity when directly injected, especially in to children...
  On day 1 of life, infants receive 250 µg of aluminum from the hepatitis B vaccine, equating to _{73 µg/kg for a 3.4 kg newborn—17 times higher than the weight-adjusted PDL (}4.3 µg/kg/day). Cumulative exposure from the CDC schedule (birth to 2 years) ranges from 4.225 to 4.925 mg, exceeding the PDL when adjusted for body weight, especially in the first 6 months (e.g., 1.475 mg by 2 months). Infants receive ~4.4 mg of aluminum from vaccines in the first 6 months, compared to 7 mg (breast milk), 38 mg (formula), or 117 mg (soy formula) from diet, but injectable aluminum is more bioavailable and biopersistent.
  And thats a huge red flag for me. Especially, if the mother is not infected by hep. B before birth, how would a child even get such a disease, which transfers by blood and body fluids, yet we vaccinate them with it at first days of life ?
  
  You know what the first thing is a medic asks you when you come in with an open wound? He asks you when you had your last tetanus shot. If you even blink before answering that question, you have that vaccine needle in you faster than you can say "autism".
  Tetanus is deadly as hell, and even if not deadly can cause massive tissue damage. Disinfecting the wound won't help you when the wound is deep, you can't clean that shit more than removing debris (btw, disinfection of open wounds isn't done in many cases, because the disinfectant damages the healthy cells that are busy healing the wound, causing longer healing times and bigger scars)
  Speaking of aluminium: Do you know how little the amounts you are speaking of are? A µg is a 1/1000th part of a mg. We are not talking about fucking Sarin here, it's aluminium which the human race gets exposed to in shittons. The first thing Aluminium as soon as it gets a chance is forming an oxide layer, making it about as reactive as my dick to a picture of Margret Thatcher naked on a cold day. The probability of aluminium in vaccines causing health effects, when taking the dosage in consideration, is negligible.
  I would not consider you an expert in the field of infectious diseases, please inform yourself the next time before you speak up on this particular topic.
  
  You are doing your own form of parody to match the original posted image yeah??? Right????
  
  All 3 of the diseases i was vaccinated for regularly kill people and can cause severe harm even if someone survives. As I am not an idiot I would prefer to avoid that if at all possible. I opted not to get Hep B, Rabies, Dengue fever vaccinations based on a risk profile and where I was traveling but I could and would have gotten shots for those too if the risk profile were higher.
  I also vaccinate my kids for the same reasons.

If you choose to give your kids deadly food, that's your problem
Also, we're nominating a Director of HHS and a Surgeon General who will be adding corn, wheat, and rice to the Controlled Substances List.
- I think that this is the thing that's starting to really get me about this crowd. The pure unashamed hypocrisy and contradictions, accompanied by zero self reflection or awareness.
  "I love freedom of speech and expression! Now shut up and get out of my sight, gay people." "I care so much about the kids, so I'm supporting politicians that want to marry and fuck them." "I can't stand these feminazis acting like all men are ok with rape, now excuse me while I listen to the latest sermon from Andrew Tate." "I'm sick of DEI ruining my precious meritocracy. That's why I'm voting for an ex reality TV star to be my president and why I'll defend him putting a news reader in charge of the military."
  I feel like I could actually go on and on and on with more examples of this if I really tried. And I know that we're supposed to be kinder to these people or some shit, so that they don't crap in their nappies and their temper tantrums and vote for even bigger pieces of shit next time. But at this point, tell me, how does one view these people as anything other than cruel, profoundly fucking stupid hypocrites?
  
  how does one view these people as anything other than cruel, profoundly fucking stupid hypocrites?
  Unfortunately, by also viewing them as victims. Humanity was not ready for the internet or multi-billion dollar media conglomerates, horizontally integrating across almost all sources of information in an endless stream of emotionally manipulative and intellectually degrading "content".
  Many of these people are profoundly fucking stupid hypocrites, but they weren't born that way, they were made. Either as byproducts of greed seeking "engagement" and attention, and/or direct products of a deliberate decades-long effort to push society to the tipping point that it is facing right now.
  A handful of powerful individuals and faceless corporations have manufactured the consent of the masses by dismantling and weaponizing education and communication.
  They are responsible for taking fringe, outdated elements of society - people that are usually ignored, shunned, or left behind in times of progress - and instead gave them a platform, legitimacy, power, and a sense of community.
  People like this were always a part of humanity, but it isn't natural for there to be so fucking many of them all at once, all in one place. It usually requires incredible societal upheaval, like the aftermath of a "war to end all wars".
  But in the modern day? All it took was a steady influx of fear and hatred, experimentally perfected over the lifetime of radio, TV, and finally the internet.
  All delivered by Murdoch, Koch, Zuck et al through the mouthpieces of complicit bastards like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Tate.
  Always remember who the real problems are.
  
  It is just double speak
- And she's not even a doctor.

“Better dead than fed” is how a lot of bigots see outgroups tbf

…the government doesn’t have any right to tell me that I have to feed my kids
Would work better.

The problem is that big pharma lobbying and deregulation keeps giving these people ammunition to work with. So we have the FDA approving drugs they know don’t work, and the CDC allowing the ceo of Delta to decide Covid isolation guidelines. There’s too much corruption, and too much money involved, with diminishing oversight and accountability.
If scientific institutions want to be trusted, they need to behave in a trustworthy manner, and enforce accountability.
- Bold of you to assume that antivaxxers pay any attention to real life pharmaceutical corruption.
  
  Disinformation sources tend to grip onto a grain of truth to launder their bullshit. That’s what makes it effective.

to be fair if foods are banned, then we will have zero food related choking incidents
- Not true, look at for example young children. They stuff things in their mouth that aren't food all the time.

Man if they are already that choked up about hundreds of children dying then how will they react about tens of millions of people dying each year because of tobacco and alcohol.

I thought about sending this to some people, or using the analogy the next time we talk about it. But I think they will spin the metaphor further with comparing it to certain foods and just fewer different foods at smaller portions and differently presented. Like, don't give a baby apple pieces or hazelnuts during BLW type of thing.
Just to be clear, I am probably in the top 1 percentile of vaccine enthusiasts, having jumped through insane hoops for Covid vaccination and getting everything just in case. I've met 5 anti vaxxers in my life, three of them on the softer side. These softies are the ones I could imagine would argue about this food comparison in their favor.

This is dumb and only further alienates two groups who don't get along.
- Trying to find common ground between the rational and the batshit insane, is a futile endeavor.
- You say that, but I found this to be the perfect analogy to show to my wife to help her understand my take on the absurdity of her mother’s objection to me getting our children vaccinated.
  Worked like a treat.
- You mean the one group who understands science and the other group that refuses to understand science and insists they know better than the experts and the studies that have been done?
  I don't think there's any common ground for those 2 groups.