Posted on 04/07/2009 7:21:17 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Here is the nanny state at its most ridiculous. Healthies -- people that obsess about health -- are on the march in Madison, Wisconsin trying to get the state government to ban people from feeding peanuts to squirrels on the state Capitol grounds. It's a state emergency, ya know? Why these casually discarded peanuts could just maybe affect a child that has an allergy. We MUST ban the evil peanut to SAVE THE CHILDREN!
One would think that people are dropping dead every 5 seconds from peanut allergies with all this energy and focus directed against that monstrous Mr. Peanut. You would think that this important health effort would save uncounted lives, wouldn't you?
Maybe not...
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It is the parents duty to take care of children who are unable to care for themselves. I know several parents who claim their children are so allergic to peanuts and could die if they come in contact with a peanut skin. One day I say one of those children eating peanuts. I figured I would need to help her use her epi-pen but she had no reaction. When I asked her about why she was eating peanuts which her parents had banned from all local gatherings because of her condition she confessed that by claiming she was allergic to peanuts she was fed a special diet at school that excluded peanut butter which she does not particularly like. That convinced me that the 300 percent (or whatever the bogus figure is) rise in peanut allergies is nothing more than a self-designation.
So the kids who really are allergic to peanuts should be exposed because the people you know are jerks?
Were one to take your (and I hate to call it) "reasoning" to its logical conclusion, we would prevent people from drinking water because more children drown in water than die of peanut allergies each year.
If you want to be a "do gooder", find something that would actually do some good like requiring parents who allege their children are highly allergic to peanuts or other legumes to provide a basis for their claims...oh, but then they would howl about HIPPA because they don't want to provide that information because (horrors!) in the vast majority (if the 350% increase is to be believed, that would be 78%) of them aren't allegeric at all.
Peanuts or peanut oil are in many products that most of us don't have to think about.
in the vast majority (if the 350% increase is to be believed, that would be 78%) of them aren't allegeric at all.
Can you prove your percentages are actual increases in allergies---or, increased awareness. Where do your stats come from?...your peanut-size brain! Why would anybody even want to know how many people who claim to be, aren't REALLY allergic to peanuts?
Your lack of empathy for those who really do have an allergy is mind-boggling.
Actually the statistic on an increase from 1995 for the 350% increase in peanut allergies is from the New England Journal of Medicine. I doubt that increase is from “increased awareness” for one simple reason. If it’s from increase awareness, those people have very minor allergies...either than or people with really genes that make their children susceptible to severe peanut allergies are interbreeding. There is a six-letter word for that which I won’t use because it would offend you, so I will just state that you need to think of the big word at the end of the last sentence and strike out letters three through five. So where did the 350% increase in peanut allergies come from? What is the mechanism other than that ten letter word that causes all those peanut allergies? I woulda thunk that Skippy, Peter Pan, and Jif would have eliminated the genetic cause of the problem long ago...but then I guess yuppies don’t eat peanut butter when claiming a peanut allergy gets them a salami sandwich instead.
What caused you to have such an irrational hang-up about peanut-allergies-not?
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