"Originally Posted by
Dartem 
Illegally speeding through a playground zone and eating a sandwich aren't even comparable in the least. I think you missed the point, it hopped on a plane and is halfway around the world by now"
They are excatly compareable in that the speed limit, and the peanut ban are put in place to protect children. If you think play ground zone speed limits are an inconvience to you then the peanut ban is likely trouble for you too. Just more rules infringing on your freedoms..
"That sounds like Lamarckian inheritance, so I guess "alot of people" would be wrong."
It's more along the lines of protien bases "prion" type infections, not excatly the same, but based on the argument that protiens can have an affect on genetic material. In the end though nobody really knows so I'm not gonna get into a debate about something neither of us knows about. Only thing for sure is it's a growing problem, and thats the reality of the situation.
Originally Posted by
Dartem
And having your kid understand that the needs of the many outweigh his individual needs. Educate the little about not eating peanut butter, stick an Ep pen in his backpack and let the teacher/whoever at the school know he has an allergy. Dont be telling everybody else "How DARE you eat PEANUTS around my little angel!"
Nobody said anything about "HOW DARE YOU!!"... Just some consideration. The school bans it because unless they do, most people people like you would have none.
"Originally Posted by
JAMMIES
That article is old, and the teen mentioned in the article as "dying from a kiss" from her peanut-eating boyfriend actually died of asthma. I'd put about the same credence in the "knife used to cut a peanut butter sandwich" story there, although it isn't referenced without enough information to be certain.
As far as the aroma of peanuts causing a reaction check here where this is debunked. "
You don't hear alot of people with nut allergies dying because the allergy is well managed, and the awareness is very high. Nobody is talking about aroma's, it's physical ingestion of peanut protein that's the real problem. The vast majority of people who die from Anaphylaxis get reported as asthma releated deaths because the symptoms and results are the same. Way more kids die of asthma each year but a percentage of thoes are actually Anaphylaxis.