[vabeachrepub]

1% of today's kids are getting the allergy. About half that are into the fatal range. I still don't see how a peanut free section at a ballpark has changed the way you live. Especially considering that none of those sections are government mandated - they are all private enterprises doing their capitalistic thing. Have you really been affected by a peanut free section at a ball field? Or are you just trying to create straw men. We are not talking about the whole stadium - just one section.

[discostu]

Whether it comes from the government or from private enterprise has no impact of of ot changes the way I live. And how it changes the way I live is then I have to find out which section is peanut free and either not sit there or not eat peanuts if I happen to want to sit in that location. All so that .1% of the general population, or about 3 people out of a standard 3,000 person minor league game attendance, can feel safe.

I'm not creating a strawman at all. If there's somebody here making a strawman that would be YOU, since the article is talking about peanut-free GAMES not sections.

[stands2reason]

Or are you just trying to create straw men. We are not talking about the whole stadium - just one section.

From the srticle

The "Peanut Free" day was started last year when Rebecca Andrusiak, a parent from Ada Elementary, contacted the Whitecaps. She told the team that because of her son's allergy, he would not be able to attend the School Days game with his classmates unless peanuts were removed from the stadium.

Not a strawman. And in schools across the country it's not just separate tables that are peanut-free (that makes the allergic kids feel different and separated out from the group. Cant have that.) No, it's now peanut-free schools, where NOBODY can bring in any peanut products. Do you support that?