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I was really shocked when, on a recent flight, I was handed several packets of peanuts as a snack... Which was great because the "trail mix" (sans peanuts) they had really sucked...
Perhaps they should stay home and watch the game on TV, or get a friend, with normal genetics, to tape the game.
Hey, they won't even have to get sick from SUV exhausts, or second hand smoke twenty miles upstream, or smell that terribly debilitating fast food, not to mention those self centered people that have the nerve to wear perfume, and deoderant.
I don't like the peanut fascists. But I see nothing wrong with a ballpark banning peanuts and peanut products a few days per season. Just so long as peanuts aren't banned for the entire season the way they are banned year 'round by some school cafeterias
Since this is a voluntary action by a team, and only for one day, I say, why not?
Good for the kid.
Good marketing for the ballpark.
Thank goodness somebody out there is fighting the noble battles against this rampant peanut-ism which, even as we speak, is tearing at the delicate moral fabric of our society. The bastard legacy of George Washington Carver is an imminent threat to the well-being and livelihood of tens and possibly even hundreds of people. Can the crunchy menace be stopped? Thanks to the efforts of people like these, commonfolk like myself have been given new hope in the battle against peanut related allergies.
If the ball park wants to do this for a handful of allergic kids, it is their right.
In this case, it's the Pro-Peanut FACISTS who want to deny the ball park the right to have a peanut free day.
Is this some newly discovered allergy? I never remember anyone making much of it until the past few years, and certainly never when I was a kid.
I don't have a peanut allergy, but I do feel a little sick whenever Carter shows up. Can I have a Dem free zone whenever I go out in public?
With all due respect to those with children who suffer from this, or those with this condition themselves, but I don't understand this at all. It makes no sense that only in the last 10-15 years did this start to come about. I'm starting to wonder if this isn't misdiagnosis of some sort.
Granted, keeping people away from peanuts seems to keep the problem in check, but that doesn't necessarily mean that peanuts ARE the cause. Maybe there's some new form of mold or other microscopic organism that has started to grow with peanuts, perhaps on their outer shell or even inside the seed itself that causes the allergy. I would ask, "Has there been a study where PURIFIED peanut oil has been subjected to someone with this allergy?" That's the first question. There are slew of other questions that could be (and should have been) asked before this is definitively shown to be the cause of the allergy. (such as the questions asked later by Sabertooth in this thread) Additional questions also could be, "Are the parents, one or the other, always around when the "peanut allergy attacks" occur? Do they smoke? Do they work in industry?" It's possible that when TWO factors come together (like peanuts AND "X") that the allergy takes place. In other words, it's not just peanuts alone that cause this.
The reason I'm as doubtful as I am is because it simply makes no sense, from a biological standpoint, that only in the last 10-15 years this has become a problem. Allergies, for the most part, arise because early in life, when the child is first forming his/her immune system, they aren't exposed to a certain allergen in sufficient quantities as to form a proper immune response to them. Then later in life, when the immune system is "set in stone", and they are exposed to this allergen that they didn't properly deal with as a child, their immune system "overreacts" because it can't handle it properly.
THUS, since by all our understanding how allergies develop, we can't explain how a "new one" can form (unless new allergens are developed, BUT PEANUTS AREN'T NEW TO THE PLANET) ...since we can't explain how an "old allergen" can produce a "new allergy", it simply doesn't make any scientific sense.
For those who's family/loved ones suffer from this, my advice would be to take a serious look at your life, and determine EXACTLY what is going on when the allergy attack occurs. My guess is that for some it's merely psychosematic (sp?) and for others, while the biological response is real, it's an allergy to a combination of factors (the peanuts AND something else) or, to something as yet unidentified in peanuts that has only started to appear in peanuts in the last 10-15 years.
There's just no way that anyone can convince me that the same peanut that we've eaten for centuries is suddenly causing this. Something MUST be different.
Right in my own backyard. I used to live right next to the park.
I think that the larger debate is about a small minority of people imposing their will on the majority. We talk about it here all the time with smoking, drinking, perfumes, etc etc etc. Do we insist that the people with an allergy take responsibility for themselves and avoid peanuts or places where they can be found, or do we just ban peanuts from all public places alltogether?
As far as the ballpark is concerned, having peanut free nights just makes good business sense to me. Opens themselves up to a new demographic. Also, it's no different than fireworks night, or 'free ball' night, as far as I'm concerned.
this article has a TON of typos!
My sister is allergic to bees. I vote for no bee night.
I'm allergic to grass and tree pollens. I vote they play on concrete and cut down every tree in sight of the stadium.