[Little Bill]

I think my FRiends that we have reached an evolutionary end point. For those of us that evolved eating nuts and berries on the fruited plains of Africa then gravitated to eating rotted meat on those same plains are doomed to to die an unfortunate death.

It is coming down to meat or cashews, I don't like peanuts. Is it going to be like your ancestors in Exernheim, feasting on your neighbors or eating nut bread, and eating those that are allergic?

It can happen when Obama restricts your diet.

[GeronL]

Sex and abortions are okay though.

[Little Bill]

Friday night ping.

[Huskrrrr]

[Fido969]

Nut-free school spurs education campaign

What, no liberals?

[RichInOC]

All the nuts are in the offices and the teachers’ lounge.

[FlingWingFlyer]

As long as there are teachers’ unions, there will never be such a thing as a “nut free school”.

[raybbr]

Nut-free school spurs education campaign

Oh, come on! Everyone knows schools are full of liberal democrats. I don't buy this for a minute.

Oh, actual nuts...

Never mind.

[Above My Pay Grade]

In my experience much in the way “gun free zones” always have the most shooting deaths, “Nut-free” schools have the most nuts...nutty parents, nutty teachers, nutty principal.

Seriously, I think the most dangerous place for a child with severe nut allergies might be a “nut free” school.

In a school where nuts are allowed the child, his teachers and classmates will always be on guard to make sure the kid is not exposed.

In a so-called “nut free” school, everyone will tend to let their guard down, making the child more likely to be exposed to the nuts that will inevitably make it into the school.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There may actually be some sense here, but for an odd reason.

For unknown reasons, the number of children with severe nut allergies has skyrocketed in the last 10 years or so, and doubled in the last 5 years. This is not subjective at all, because a child will eat a peanut butter sandwich and swell up like a toad, and have to get an IV of epinephrine to keep from dying.

These are kids who regularly ate peanut butter, when suddenly, bang. As another oddity, about 20% of allergic kids will stop being allergic by age six. The rest remain allergic for life.

This is why schools and airlines have been banning nuts, because even a whiff of peanuts after that can send these kids into anaphylactic shock, and needs paramedics on the scene within minutes before they suffocate.

Just seeing it once will scare the heck out of you.

[dangerdoc]

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I can assure you none of the schools in Massachusetts are nut free. Take a close look at the faculty if you doubt that statement.

[blam]

"It can happen when Obama restricts your diet."

Nobody will restrict my diet.

I will eat those who try.