Posted on 04/12/2018 9:28:03 AM PDT by bgill
A mother on a New York parenting blog wrote Monday that while shopping at the retailer, she gave her four-year-old daughter a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and "a woman stopped me to lecture me about peanut allergies." The child's mother then asked other moms on UrbanBaby if it was unacceptable to eat peanut butter in public. The anti-peanut butter backlash was swift and brutal. Most responses attacked the mother for potentially endangering children with peanut allergies. Some criticized her for feeding her daughter in a shopping cart, which they considered disgusting. "That's really inconsiderate," one person wrote. "So many kids have life threatening allergies to peanut butter. Eating it in a shopping cart GUARANTEES it will be smeared on the handle, etc. It's really awful you would do this. Sorry, but imagine if it were your child with the allergy."
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Before 1980, peanut allergies were rarely mentioned in medical literature or the media, said Miranda Waggoner, a postdoctoral researcher at the Office of Population Research in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Her article on the subject, “Parsing the peanut panic: The social life of a contested food allergy epidemic,” was published recently in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
Yeah, who plans so badly that the only time to give your kid a sandwich is when they’re trapped in a shopping cart?
She should realize Americans are meant to eat in the car...
I suspect the mania for vaccination of every conceivable type, in every conceivable combination and for every conceivable cause, is the culprit. The veterinary profession has severely curtailed its recommended vaccination protocols after it overvaccination became associated with inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, and some cancers.
There is serious talk of banning peanuts in public and mandating signs on private homes.
A kid in my daughters class has peanut allergies. It is a bad deal for him, but he makes sure to keep himself safe without mandating any type of madness.
My 1st though. May just go to the store and eat it with a spoon while walking the isles.
I'm convinced it all started with parents being paranoid about their newborns being in a "sterile" environment free of all bacteria.
The immune systems never fully develop, as a result.
I would have said something along the lines of, “GET OUT OF MY FACE!”...................along with some words I learned in the USMC..................
People can kiss my butt on this. If I want to eat peanut butter from a jar with a spoon, I am going to eat it wherever I want and I don’t care if someone gets bent out of shape on it.
I see a scenario where someone runs over a case of Skippy with a forklift or something smashing and spilling the contents all over the place. Then the building is evacuated and a HazMat team is called in to clean up!
It could happen!
“There were no “peanut allergies” forty years ago.”
I heard that exposure at an early age to peanut products lessens the problem. 40 years ago, parents weren’t so obsessed with the problem, hence it wasn’t one.
mole hill...meet mountain.
Note to self. If I ever have a baby avoid parenting forums.
I went to many different schools, in many states, and thousands of students.
I can’t remember even ONE peanut allergy. There were several diabetics, but that is all...................
Another thing that bothers me is this notion that the entire society should stand itself on its head to accommodate the needs of a relative few.
big question is WHY should the general public have to suffer so a tiny minority can feel safe?
eg....these "service animals" key word "animals" allowed in restaurants and planes and nobody ever thinks that maybe others are repulsed by it.
its always the tiny minority that dictates everything...
I am not responsible for your special needs child in any way.
We never had autism either. We just had a few kids in every grade that were considered “odd.”
“The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.”
Tell them to shutup....kids need to be around germs..
Scocial media is really bully media..
What percentage of kids have peanut allergy??
I’m with you on this, and not just where newborns are brought into the world.
For example, all this hand sanitizer 24x7 can’t be good.
For an immune system to be effective, it has to be exercised. It has to face threats, otherwise the first time it encounters something, it is going to get overwhelmed.
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