I still cannot figure out how peanuts are so deadly and dangerous. It seems millions of Americans have a peanut allergy. However, 40 years ago no one was allergic to peanuts.
Go figure.
I believe the hysteria over peanut allergies is MOSTLY B.S. promoted by neurotic mothers.
Yeah, right? I’m 62. Growing up I never heard of a ‘’food allergy’’. Now for crying out loud it’s all you hear.
Maybe the difference is in the peanuts themselves. Wheat, for example, now yields ten times the amount per acre from years ago ;however, it is far less nutritious.
Not true, in 1960 I visited Pueblo Gardens grade school for 1st grade orientation and a boy died that day from eating peanut butter.
I think it’s GMO. Makes sense to me. Why else?
Might just be one of those things you don’t believe until it happens to YOU! :)
I don’t like peanut butter, anyways.
Nonetheless, I seem to have developed an allergy to tiny tomatoes, and Budweiser for some reason in the past few years. Go figure.
Probably a GMO issue. My best guess.
I have wondered about the seeming explosion of people allergic to peanuts and can only guess that this allergy wasn’t widely known until it could be researched and verified.
All these non hackers are naturally supposed to be flushed from the gene pool. Our diversity is killing all of us! Cant wait for spring and my bees will get back to stinging me regular.
“40 years ago no one was allergic to peanuts”
I read not too long ago that researchers think the peanut allergies are manifesting because children are not exposed to soil, that is to say dirt, as much as they used to be when they were outside playing more. I guess the research continues... But it was an interesting article nonetheless.
Peanut allergy reactions, like bee sting allergy reactions (Anaphylaxis) are real. Before my daughter became a nurse she was a paramedic and would treat patients with a shot of Epinephrine (she'd also likely do it in the ER now if called for). People can die if they truly have the reaction and aren't treated for it.
As to why it's now blasting all over AlGore's amazing interwebs, all I can say is the old adage "if it bleeds, it leads".
But I agree with the premise of this story, that there are more people who do not have the allergy but think they do.