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Soul Survivor
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UChicago
May 2003
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This isn't just about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches though. There are peanuts (nut oils) in hundreds of things, things most people wouldn't even think of - the article gave sunblock as an example. Cereals, crackers, ice cream, health bars, pastries, candy, dips, pasta sauce.... the list goes on and on.
The school would have to ban ALL these items if the child's allergy was as severe as they claim. If it is so severe, the child can not attend school normally because even contact with peanut oil or inhaling peanut dust will cause a potentially fatal reaction. But if the child's allergy is not so severe, the school should NOT have to ban peanuts. The child is old enough to understand "DO NOT EAT PEANUTS", and can be supervised during lunch with little or no burden placed on the other students.
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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
time: 00:30
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quote:
Originally posted by JohnT
And that's the same sort of reaction the mother is claiming here... if he smells it, touches it, etc., the kid will die. |
I would find that kinda spurious. I think that the fact that kids are messy and would likely get their lunch on themselves presents the most serious danger.
Suffering a massive allergy attack is a horrible way to go. As your airways swell shut, you go into convulsions trying to get some air into your body. You panic.
I still remember how scared I was when I was five years old and had a massive asthma attack. This was before effective medication, and I wonder how my folks felt watchnig their son convulsing on the floor to get air.
Anyway, the difference is that the airline was providing the peanuts, and it doesn't inconvenience them to provide another snack instead. On the other hand, as you mentioned, PB&Js are a major staple of the American child's diet.
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Soul Survivor
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UChicago
May 2003
time: 05:30
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If it is really that serious, then other kids couldn't even eat peanuts out of school, and they have to make sure the janitors aren't eating peanuts after school. Its a major burden on many people and the school, and it doesn't even gaurentee the child will be safe!
I have no doubt this will be a lawsuit before Christmas.
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THis is just stupid if you ask me.
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CerberusIV
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Well, I eat PB&J sandwiches at work a couple of days each week and there is a nursery group in the same building. If they ask for a peanut free zone they can have one - somewhere else!
Seriously, a lot of processed food in the UK which doesn't contain nuts is labelled that it might have been contaminated with traces of nuts because other food made with the same machinery did include nuts. Is banning peanuts gong to be enough? or will they end up banning all food not certified nut free?
I am against this, even if kids die, simply because people like this kid's parents and the peanut-nazi's at the school won't stop until nuts are banned for everyone, everywhere starting with the education system. First litigation crazy USA, then the EU, then the rest of the world.
The issue seems to be that 50 years ago kids died for unexplained reasons and child mortality rates were higher than now. 100 years ago they were a lot higher. Nowadays we have virtually eliminated many of the diseases that used to kill children so these allergies are more noticeable and medical science just loves discovering and naming new conditions, preferably fatal ones.
Modern western society is just too sensitive about the fact that everyone dies sooner or later in one way or another.
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10-09-2003 21:26
a fixation on Judy Garland, eh?
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