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.
A little more than bent out of shape...
When my niece comes in contact with it, her airways constrict and she cannot breath. She has been to ER countless times—especially when she was young kid.
She is older now and carries EPI pens, so seems to be less of a problem.
She was not raised in a sterile environment...Not sure of the cause, but it is serious...
Nothing personal against you, and I am genuinely sorry to hear about your niece, but I am opposed to anything that would infringe on the actions of a large number of people and industries due to the limitations of a few.
This is why the Americans with Disabilities Act is such a horrible and horrendously vile piece of legislation. Is is so broad and open to interpretation that is it deliberately used as a cudgel that creates a "tyranny of the few".
You might well feel this scenario would be hyperbolic and utterly ridiculous, but I could see the ADA being used as a cudgel by a plaintiff in a lawsuit to mandate the use of peanut butter "sniffers" that would be mandatory in any business or facility.
Check out these two graphs about the Federal Register, the comprehensive summary of all statutes, rules, and regulations in this country:
Total pages in the Federal Register by Year:
Number of significant rules added to the Federal Register by President:
We are drowning in rules and regulations, never mind the burden that this places on industry and makes us non-competitive with many foreign industries. The bright spot is someone like Trump who has dramatically reduced this trend, but he is a once in a lifetime President in this respect, we won't see his likes again.
I know you think this kind of legislation would never happen, but I can guarantee you that it will. And that is why I believe the sole responsibility for protecting this lies with the parents of a child and an individual. I regret if someone has to live in a bubble due to this, I really, honestly do. But if that is how it must be, I would prefer that over impinging on millions of people and their livelihoods to protect them.
When my niece comes in contact with it, her airways constrict and she cannot breath. She has been to ER countless times—especially when she was young kid. She is older now and carries EPI pens, so seems to be less of a problem. We sincerely do sympathize; but we still don't think everyone else should have to be the cure. Kudos to her for carrying her pen and whatever other steps she takes to manage her condition.
I hope she works with a good nutritionist and diagnostician to find out if some necessary food, vitamin or mineral is missing from her diet or some other aspect of her diet or household chemical such as formaldehyde in carpeting or chemicals in paint or cleaning supplies is co-morbid with nut allergy.
Hope she does grow out of it. We had food allergies in our house, but eventually our sufferer is now able to eat all those foods in moderation, now being a grown person. There was co-morbidity between foods and pollen, and we got a lot of relief from a water-tank vacuum cleaner instead of a dustbag vacuum.