When did kids begin to be allergic to peanut butter? Apparently there is some kind of pandemic peanut butter allergy going around. And it has condemned us to pretzels on airplanes. Yet when I was a child in elementary school and high school, I don’t remember ANYONE ever being allergic to peanut butter. Does anyone know of any studies showing what has caused this?”””.....
Good question. Along with Asthma and Autism. I was raised in rural Wisconsin, and I don’t remember anyone with Asthma- child or adult.
Now they claim that One in every 150 children has Autism. I don’t wish to castigate the problems for parents, but where is this coming from? Former drug use by parents who won’t admit to it? A change in the processing of peanuts into peanut butter? Some sort of combination of the peanuts and the margarine used by the parents? God forbid they use real butter like we did!!!
I am tired of the mainstreaming aspect of the austic child being put into the classroom where all it does is disrupt the learning process of the other 149 kids of the group who do not have autism. Where is the fairness in that and what kind of education is your normal child getting which will prepare them for a decent job or college? The school boards love the inclusion of the “learning problems” children. In this area, a regular child gets a budget of about $7000/year, and the “learning problem kids” get a budget of about $25,000 per pupil per year. Doesn’t take a genius to see why the school boards want these kids “included”. It bloats their income and in the long run, it stunts the learning of ALL the kids, IMO.
When we were kids, it took a whole loaf of Wonder bread with peanut butter and jelly to make sandwiches for the 4 of us kids. I don’t know of much else we had for our school lunches. We not only all survived, all 4 of us were self- employed, 3 with employees. I stayed alone doing bookkeping. I can remember the largest jars of peanut butter and strawberry jam on the kitchen counter. Those were the days of the waxed paper sandwich bags. Brown paper bags. Apples, etc. Bought a half-pint of milk from the dispensor in the school for a nickle. No cafeteria.....But we all got an excellent education.
The craziest part is that the little dairy town I grew up in and went to school in was named the best place in USA to live and work this past August by Money Magazine. Middleton, Wisconsin. Blew me away. Town has grown and gotten waaaayyy too yuppified for my tastes, but I couldn’t call it #1 in the country. Homes too expensive and property taxes WAAAAYY too expensive.