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How did folks with peanut allergies survive before their recent efforts to make the world peanut-safe?
Do peanut-free zones discriminate against folks with other allergies?
Is there a list of rare allergies about which the entire world must bend over to accomodate?
The problem is, we can find people with bad allergies to just about everything. We can't make the world allergy-free.

I don't know what parents did before - information about the allergy is only recently becoming more and more available as it is only recently becoming more and more common. The peanut allergy in particular has grown dramatically in the last ten years - nd continues to grow.

I believe the main responsibility falls on the parents for looking after the welfare of their children. That is why we are careful about what we eat and where we go.

However, your post was about "Peanut Fascism" and as an example of this so-called fascism you cited a PRIVATE ENTERPRISE that had a peanut free day of their own accord. I am still trying to figure where there is fascism in that. How is having one peanut free day at a ballpark forcing one's views on others.

Approximately 1% of today's children have the peanut allergy. While certainly not a majority it is hardly what I would consider rare - especially when the consequences can be so severe.

No we cannot make the world allergy free. But we can do things that make sense. Take airlines for instance - if airlines continued to serve peanuts they would effectively be barring up to 1% of their potential customers right off the bat - and that is really dumb from a business standpoint. Most people don't make their flying choices based on what crappy snack is served.

The only thing that I fully agree with that can be construed as "forcing one's views down another's throat" is when it comes to labeling food packages. It is imperative that we know what we are eating - it is quite literally in our case a matter of life and death.

How did folks with peanut allergies survive before their recent efforts to make the world peanut-safe?

They didn't. In years prior, death in childhood due to an idiopathic histamine reaction would have been the most likely outcome. Of course, it's idiopathic no longer.

The problem is, we can find people with bad allergies to just about everything. We can't make the world allergy-free.

Not all allergies are created equal. For one reason or another allergies to proteins, such as peanut allergies tend to be severe and life-threatening, whereas most allergies are merely minor annoyances. Mrs. Melas RN

How did folks with peanut allergies survive before their recent efforts to make the world peanut-safe?

They went into anaphylactic shock, and died.

My daughter has a classmate with a peanut allergy. It hasn't proved to be a problem at all; She can eat all the peanut butter (her favorite food, BTW) she wants when she gets home. The other students and their parents have been very understanding about the situation.

I'm allergic to yogurt. Do you think someone will have a yogurt free day for me? I always carry Benadryl with me, just in case.

I think it was nice there was a peanut-free day at the ball park, as long as it's not forever. Some folks make their income by throwing those bags of peanuts, for goodness sakes.