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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
You know what's weird? It's only kids who have really bad peanut allergies.
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A good buddy of mine is severely allergic, and he's in his 30s. So not just kids.
A point I brought up last time we had this debate, what about the families below the poverty line. The ones who cannot afford no-name balogna so to ensure the kid gets nutrition they want to send him with PB&J sandwiches to school. Or what about kids who won't eat other things? I know at one point as a kid I ate PB almost exclusively, and into junior high I would usually throw out what my mom made and go hit Burger King for lunch. Other kids would sometimes just throw out their lunch and go without.
So in my examples above, the peanut ban puts the needs of the few above the needs of the many; as I imagine there are more poor families and fussy kids than kids with allergies.
I'm not saying there is no need to be insensitive, but an all out ban seems excessive to me. And who is going to speak up and say "But we are too poor to feed our kids meat for lunch."?