Posted on 09/27/2007 2:22:06 PM PDT by UKrepublican
I think I’m developing an allergy to bureaucratically inspired ambulance-chasing shyster lawyers...
PS LOVE your tag line!
This is exactly what FR has said should be done in the past on these threads. Some minds changing?
I guess we both could go to England....
You are right, using an EpiPen is not a big deal...
So you can die by breathing the air near where someone is eating gluten, like is the case with peanuts? Learn something new every day ...
My son has a severe peanut allergy for which he could die, and I’d like to protect him from death even if it means I think some other kids should suffer the great humans right violation of eating bologna for school lunch instead of pbj if they want to sit at the same table as my son ... which fact will probably qualify me for flaming on this thread.
So be it.
I just wonder why some people evidently take pleasure in the misfortune of others.
Nothing. The allergic kids are safe, and you’re daughter can still eat her precious pbj.
Why is this absurd? Nut allergys are not particularly rare, and can be life threatening. Nuts are not exactly one of the basic food groups, so if you make it safe for those students at the cost of not serving nuts the only people who suffer are the nut growners. I like pecan pie, but I'd be willing to give up eating it in restaurants if having pecan pie puts other at risk of dying. (I can always bake some at home - better anyway) There's nothing so great about nuts that banning them causes any harm. (you don't happen to be a pecan grower do you?)
And this would be bad because? Would anyone in their right mind WANT to shake dismal Jimmy's hand?
Nothing
” Absurd. “
As absurd as completely banning all nuts (and nut products and items which may have the remote possibility of having some relation to nuts) from a school campus because one student has an allergy??
As absurd as sueing airlines to force them to stop serving ‘airline peanuts’ because someone who has an allergy *might* want to fly someday??
Since when has the world gone so topsy-turvy that the vast majority must now ‘adjust’ to accomodate the tiniest minority, instead of the other way around??
Bravo! I could not have said that any better ping.
This is an eye-opening article concerning pregnancy and peanut allergies:
http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/09/25/mothers-told-to-eat-peanuts-in-pregnancy-after-years-of-warnings-to-avoid-them/
I'm with you! If a kid is allergic to peanuts, why punish the whole bloody school?
This makes a lot more sense than banning nuts and peanut butter from school.
Though I wouldn’t call him a “health and safety risk.” I’d tell ‘em the truth - he’s a lawsuit waitin’ to happen.
That happened last year at my son’s school. The little girl is no longer attending, so I can smear peanut butter all over him again.
Thank God, it must have been horrible for your child had to wait until 3:00 to eat peanut butter. Has he recovered from the trauma?
There was no trauma smart butt. Where in my post did I indicate that?
Her precious peanut butter and jelly sandwich someone called it.
But see to me it is precious. Not because it is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or that it is her favorite thing to eat. But because it goes deeper than that.
Yesterday it was the peanut butter and jelly sandwich banned.
Today its the doughnuts at the senior citizen center. Too many carbs and fat and sugar you know and not good for their cholesterol.
I already cant pray out loud anywhere in public.(Not if you
are Christian anyway.) Geesh God is being erased from buildings and documents as we speak. People can trash my religion and I have no right to defend it or I am labled ignorant and intolerant.
People can trash my country and its laws and I have no right to defend it or I am labeled a racist and a bigot. I have to read Spanish as I enter and exit buildings,
and have you seen instructions for anything lately? forget it! It takes 15 minutes just to find where the English part is. I already have to push 1 for English.
Who knows what it will be tomorrow. Will I still be able to wear my favorite perfume because I might unwittingly offend someone thats allergic to perfumes? Or will it be in the not
so distant future when we are told that that we MUST have insurance and what insurance to have, or face a penalty? Or when will they begin to tell us we have to go this doctor or that doctor,and when we have to go and what information he will share with whomever? And when they have chipped away at it, starting with seemingly harmless bans, will guns be next? Well, we can safely say they are already trying that too.
We cant simply pick and choose ..one from column A and two from column B, for the freedoms we are willing to just give away. Because before you know it, there will only be column A and that wont have that many choices on it.
Where and when do we draw the line?
A precious peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
You darn right it is.
Whenever you hear a left wing Socialist say “It’s for the chilruns”, that is code word for “grab your ankles and bend over, we are going to take your money and freedom away from you for the greater good.”
just wonder why some people evidently take pleasure in the misfortune of others
Looks like you do. You don't give a flip about others, only your own. Your rights do NOT trump my rights (at least they shouldn't in a just world).
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