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To: ConservingFreedom
Peanuts are harmful to some people - should they be banned for everybody?

False comparison. (as usual with you pot nutters.) Peanuts are a useful food source for many people (It has actual real-world positive benefits as a food stuff, unlike pot) while those allergic are in the extreme minority.

Pick something that is utterly F***ing useless to consume, and which ruins about 15+ percent of the population that tries it, and then you might have an apt comparison.

Apart from that Subway stopped selling Peanut butter cookies for precisely the reason that it causes severe allergic reactions in some people. As a company which wants to avoid liability, I grasp their reasons for doing so.

285 posted on 01/17/2015 3:44:46 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp
those allergic are in the extreme minority.

Peanuts are just part of the picture; "As many as 15 million people have food allergies." (http://www.foodallergy.org/document.doc?id=194)

Pick something that is utterly F***ing useless to consume

So government gets to decide what's "useful"? Bootlicker.

Apart from that Subway stopped selling Peanut butter cookies for precisely the reason that it causes severe allergic reactions in some people.

I fully support every business' right to not sell whatever it chooses to not sell: pot, peanuts, you name it.

288 posted on 01/17/2015 3:52:53 PM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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