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Originally Posted by rotten42
I would say I hope that you have a kid who is anaphylactic to peanuts so you can experience as a parent what it is like to know that simply having the kid next to your eating peanut butter can kill your kid…..but I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Pure ignorance!
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32 Deaths EVER in North America, 9 in Schools. Riding the school bus is a greater risk then peanut butter. The 9 deaths are attributed to not getting an Epi Pen soon enough.
We need to follow evidence based solutions and not draconian bans. There is absolutely no literature to sugest bans are an effective way of preventing anaphaltic shock. We want people to follow science when it comes to Vaccines. That same standard needs to be maintained when talking about food bans.
(for links to the above numbers see my post in the thread on this topic)
The worst part of this is some schools (my daughters preschool) have banned homemade snacks from being taken to school even if they don't have peanuts in do to fear of cross contamination. Instead they require snacks to be sealed with peanut free labling. So instead of more nutricious home baked snacks they are promoting processed garbage. Though they still do allow vegatables, but I am not sure how they can justify cut up vegatables that have a risk of cross contamination when they won't allow other baked goods.
edit: my numbers above are completely wrong. See wormius post below. You are looking at about 60 to 100 deaths per year total which extrapolates to 15 to 25 kids per year which makes it about as dangerous as school buses.