Have you noticed that over the last 30 or so years the number of people with a terrible allergy/intolerance to some damn thing has increased about 1000%? No way I’m buying into that-I’m more inclined to think it is hype to get people to buy some expensive drug or specialty food item.
I’ve eaten the same way since I was a ranch-raised kid-a mostly veggie diet, with lean meat and fish the next item, very few carbs and zero processed sugar-but the veggies are all fresh, no cans and seldom frozen-carbs are from whole grains or starchy veggies, and nothing is processed, unless I’m starving. I guess it is sort of an Atkins/South Beach diet, and unlike many hispanics/latinos no one in my family is even close to overweight, and no one has food allergies.
Maybe all the processed food is responsible for the food allergies-it takes chemicals, after all to process and preserve foods.
You have a point there.
Another possibility is that, since the allergen changes, then becomes extremely popular, then is replaced by a different allergen, is that it is media-driven and not biological at all. It also is a way of demanding attention from others. (I am sure that some allergies are real and are dealt with appropriately by their sufferers, but that is not what I am referring to)
Years ago, I attended my M-I-L’s Passover Seder, attended also by a Vegetarian cousin. The meal was served “Family Style” which meant that one could take whatever foods one wanted from big dishes in the middle of the table.
Cousin M was not content to merely serve herself vegetables and enjoy the meal. She would loudly snort with disgust and avert her nose as the meats were passed around. That was followed by a pontificating lecture against “cruelty”. Needless to say, the Haggadah was not read in its entirety, nor were any songs sung, because Cousin M had diverted ALL the attention to her SELF.