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Peanuts on Northwest Airlines prompt protests.. War on Peanuts!
CNN ^ | Feb 16th, 2009

Posted on 02/16/2009 10:33:29 AM PST by TaraP

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The return of peanuts to the snack menu at Northwest Airlines this month has prompted a spasm of protests from travelers with allergies.. The change comes four months after Northwest merged with Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and in the midst of a national salmonella outbreak involving Peanut Corporation of America. Georgia, where the company has a plant, is the top peanut-producing state in the country. Northwest began handing out the goobers as snacks on February 1, as Delta has been doing for years. In Minneapolis, where Northwest is based, news of the change has resulted in a flood of responses on the Web site of the Star Tribune, a local newspaper. "This is a very disappointing development," wrote one man who responded to the story. "My wife's allergy is so severe that if someone is sitting next to her and eating peanuts, the odor is enough to trigger an allergic reaction." "Northwest is really out of touch with its customers and the reality of allergies to peanuts," wrote another reader. "What's wrong with pretzels?"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; foodpolice; nwa; peanuts
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To: N3WBI3

It may be sad, but it is true.


41 posted on 02/16/2009 10:58:51 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The original point of America was not to be Europe)
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To: TaraP

How about mentioning the primary issue - air recirc systems - smoking was banned because it’s cheaper to make everyone on the aircraft breath bad air?

They are germ-soup incubators on a red-eye because of this. Venting fresh air costs more, I guess. Hm.


42 posted on 02/16/2009 10:59:51 AM PST by Freedom4US (l)
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To: netmilsmom

yea and last month I faked a trip to the ER and drugs for my kid because she got a hold of some PB... We nutty anti peanut people are devious indeed..


43 posted on 02/16/2009 10:59:51 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: driftdiver

LOL!


44 posted on 02/16/2009 11:00:17 AM PST by KittenClaws
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To: Badeye

For the most part I agree with you but Airplanes are a special deal because of the closed environment.


45 posted on 02/16/2009 11:00:36 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: N3WBI3

Yes it is serious and deadly.

Don’t you think its unreasonable of people suffering from a rare disease to make reasonable accommodations to the world and not make the world meet their needs?

Of course this is a parallel to the americans with disabilities act which is frequently used to bankrupt small companies because 1 customer decided he was discriminated against. I know one blind guy who goes around looking for people he can sue.


46 posted on 02/16/2009 11:01:22 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: TaraP

Southwest Airlines has been serving peanuts as snacks for most if not all its 35+ years of operation. Last year they flew over 104 million passengers and not one died from peanuts or second hand peanut odors that I know of. Given the lawsuit happy legal profession, I’m sure that Southwest would have banned peanuts a long time ago if they were bad.


47 posted on 02/16/2009 11:01:33 AM PST by CedarDave (Pray that during the next four years we don't lose the America we so love.)
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To: Badeye

it takes a special kind of person to 5h17 on other people for a bag of peanuts..


48 posted on 02/16/2009 11:01:49 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: N3WBI3

See #40 too - the “peanut allergens spreading through air” nonsense is exactly that - junk science and nonsense.


49 posted on 02/16/2009 11:01:58 AM PST by indcons (An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.)
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To: rovenstinez
I'd like to know where it came from as well. Growing up, I never heard of this type of allergy. PB & J was a school staple.

I love peanuts. Out of the shell, out of the can, peanut butter straight out of the jar.

I'd be real *issed if they started banning them.

There has to be some scientific reason for this upsurge in peanut allergies.

50 posted on 02/16/2009 11:02:26 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: bert

Horse crap its true... not asking the peanut plant, or food derived, be obliterated merely that on a three hour plane ride people go without.. That does not disqualify one from society..


51 posted on 02/16/2009 11:04:21 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: N3WBI3

Doesn’t your daughter have one of those emergency injectors? Seems reasonable to carry one of those if you are that allergic.


52 posted on 02/16/2009 11:04:22 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

” I know one blind guy who goes around looking “

Ummmmmmmmm.........


53 posted on 02/16/2009 11:04:36 AM PST by Uncle Ike (At some point, government has to be the next bubble to burst. (H/T Freeper This_far))
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To: N3WBI3

If I were a passeger in an airplane and someone asked me to stop eating peanuts because of some junk science peanut inhalation theory, I’ll call that person an idiot and continue eating them.


54 posted on 02/16/2009 11:04:58 AM PST by indcons (An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.)
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To: TaraP

There are other airlines that don’t serve peanuts. People with allergies relating to peanuts have that choice.


55 posted on 02/16/2009 11:05:12 AM PST by meyer (The left is flooding the ship - let's quit bailing water. We are all John Galt.)
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To: N3WBI3

Nobody is dying because the passenger next to you is eating peanuts.

Nobody. This is ridiculous, IMHO.


56 posted on 02/16/2009 11:05:31 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: Uncle Ike

Sorry forgot my drum roll after that. But seriously he goes ‘seeking’ some company with a perceived failure to comply.


57 posted on 02/16/2009 11:05:42 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: N3WBI3

Did you read the part of the report above about the double blind study?

Contact with the actual protein in the peanut product is crucial, the mere odor is merely discomforting.

I’ve seen people gasp for breath at the sight of a cigarette in someone’s mouth only to fail to notice that it had not been lit.

Hard to keep children away from something so ubiquitous as peanut butter products.

Stay vigilant.


58 posted on 02/16/2009 11:05:57 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: N3WBI3

But they have peanuts in airports, in taxi’s, rental cars and so forth.

How is a airplane any different?


59 posted on 02/16/2009 11:06:56 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Yes we do... are you aware that every expose to something you are allergic to makes that allergy worse? Are you also aware that the epipens have an effective use time of about a half hour during which you’re supposed to be getting to an ER?


60 posted on 02/16/2009 11:07:04 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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