Peanuts: Victim or Villain?
Jan 11th, 2009 | By nopsych | Category: revewz, snewz
A deadly menace
Allergies to peanuts in the United States has reached epidemic proportions, with over 3 million men, women, and children affected. An allergic reaction is incredibly severe, with some sufferers falling into anaphylactic shock, which can result in a fast asphyxiation and death. But what about the rest of the country?
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297 million Americans don’t have a peanut allergy, and they suffer because of those that do. Parents can’t give their children foods containing peanuts, because other students may be allergic. Airlines can be instructed to withhold complimentary peanuts from all passengers because a single passenger has an allergy. Prominent food makers are changing their recipes to accomodate those who would not be able to buy their products otherwise.
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And the 297 million suffer silently.
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- Sorry, Johnny. No snacks for you because Timmy is allergic.
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Soon, we may live in a world where all peanut products will be disposed of, never to return. Peanut M&M’s will be reviled in future generations like lead paint and asbestos is looked at now. The complete works of George Washington Carver will be burned and his monument in Missouri will be razed to the ground. Elephants will die out completely unless we, the silent majority, go out and do something.
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The future of peanut butter
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So go forth, all of you who are not deathly allergic to peanuts! Eat a Snickers in public without shame. Plant a peanut bush. Take a bath in peanut butter. Don’t just do it for yourselves. Do it for the future of America. Do it for the children.
My son has a peanut allergy. This is not something to laugh about. There are a lot of people who can and DO die from reactions.
How could you write such thing? What is I say I bring a loaded gun to your child’s school,don’t worry, I will not shoot it, but from time to time, just hang around, perhaps play the trigger a little in his face, would that be okay?
The rest of the America do not suffer from gun shot accident either, but for these who did, they can tell you the danger.
Peanut or other food allergy is real, and people, please DO eat your peanut products, but not in front of the ones who suffer. It surprises me every time I hear people complain about Not able to eat their peanuts at THAT PARTICULAR TIME. Why? Why put others in danger of losing their lives when you can just hold back for a hour? I know I will.
Nut allergies or yuppie hysteria?
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-stein9-2009jan09,0,3149168.column?track=rss
I’m allergic to shellfish, I’m not asking the whole world to change. I don’t eat shellfish, even if my friends are having a visibly awesome time eating them.
People need to grow up, tell your kids not to eat other peoples snacks. If we all stop eating peanuts eventually the whole human race will become allergic, and that would be LAME. I love peanuts.
This is an awful attempt at humour, and you’re clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel in a conscious effort at being funny.
Your ‘rant’ fails in so many ways. No-one is asking anyone to ‘dispose of’ ALL peanuts, you idiot. What you are being asked is to forego a few moments pleasure, substituting it with something else, so that someone else is not at risk of death.
If you don’t think that’s reasonable, you’re a tool.
“I’m allergic to shellfish, I’m not asking the whole world to change. I don’t eat shellfish, even if my friends are having a visibly awesome time eating them.”
How many kids brought shellfish to lunch when you were in grade school?? Reactions don’t always happen because a child ate someone else’s snack. People should really educate themselves before posting incorrect or incomplete information.
I don’t know of anyone who has truly suffered because they couldn’t eat peanuts for part of a day. I haven’t eaten any for over 11 yrs and I haven’t suffered a bit.
That really is ignorant. Why don’t you educate yourself on peanut allergies before you go off on your rants? Parents are just looking for a little support in school to make is safe for their children. My daughter can avoid peanuts all she wants but if they are present all around her in classroom, school, etc she can still have a reaction from the peanut residue left behind on the tables, etc. It’s easy to protect her when I am with her but I can’t help what happens at school. Yes, She has to grow up in a world with people who are cruel and get bullied at school, but we did not choose this for her and only want her to be safe. I am not a yuppie in “mass hysteria” this is REAL.
There is big difference in schools between shellfish and peanuts. In that matter, peanuts and really most other foods that known for severe allergic reactions. Most children, for example, do not bring in lobster or crab on a daily basis. But even it if they did, it does not have the abilty to contaminate objects as peanut butter does which inevitably gets smeared on things or peanut dust which can enter the air. Additionally, peanuts can show up in ingredients that you would not expect and thus can be tricky. For example, you probably do not need to read a cookie ingredient in fear that they some how put shell fish ingredient in.
So in making your analogy that shell fish is the same as peanuts, as far as danger for children in schoool, just use some common sense to understand the difference.
You are ignorant. This is a life or death matter. You suffer because you can’t have peanuts??? My son almost died because of peanuts and lives everyday with the chance that he will die because of someone’s touch or kiss. Now, that is suffering. And also, you idiot, elephants don’t eat peanuts!!
o Food allergies have doubled in 10 years (the guy who wrote the yuppie histeria article is hysterical himself.. and uninformed)
o nut allergies cause the most fatalities out of all allergies
o Nut oils STICK TO EVERYTHING and will stay there until the object is cleaned (thats why its not like fish or milk or egg allergies)
o Most schools only ban nuts in the classrooms where kids are not yet able to care for themselves, like K-5.
So develop a bit of compassion, will you?
Sometimes I wonder whether the people who write this stuff are just doing so to get attention. Its sad, really.
If your comments were an attempt at humor, you failed.
The pungent odor emitted from peanut products is adequate to initiate anaphylactic reactions in many allergy sufferers.
My first anaphylactic reaction to peanuts in 1979, and at least 10 reactions since, almost resulted in death. I was fortunate enough to receive adequate quantities of epinephrine to reverse anaphylacsis while being rushed to the nearest hospital. I consider myself lucky to be alive.
Many of my reactions were the result of mislabeled products and the careless actions of others. I support accurate labeling practices and the removal of peanut products to eliminate the possibility of cross contamination.
I suggest you develop some compassion and consider how your life would change if the SMELL of something being consumed in a public place could KILL YOU.
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Сразу видно что вы в этой теме рулите, не то что я.
Я совсем не верила в самые неправдоподобные сверхъестественные события, особенно когда кто-то из “посвященных” заверял, что на меня саму колдовскими силами наложено какое-то сильное заклинание или приворот. Все-таки всего только чуть меньше месяца назад мы с моей лучшей подругой решили все-таки наведаться к бабушке-гадалке. Меня потащили к гадалке просто за компанию. Наверное – подумала про себя я – пришел мой черед узнать свою судьбу.
Когда все-таки мы приехали по нужному нам адресу, она сразу же подошла ко мне со словами: “Ой, доченька, непрожить тебе более единого месяца на этом свете…”. Понятное дело кроме улыбки у меня у меня это уверение не смогло вызвать. А гадалка продолжила свое невеселое повествование: “Наколдовали на тебя, дочка
самое что ни на есть ужасное на свете проклятье – суть твоя уже по правде одной ногой на том свете… и род свой ты не можешь продолжить из-за того же…”. Правду говоря, врачи мне уже почти как 3 года назад рассказали о том, что я бесплодна, но вот откуда она смогла узнать о моем состоянии – ведь как никак я старалась держать это в секрете и ни кому, ни родителям, ни друзьям не рискнула сказать о своей беде.
После этих слов гадалка нашла книгу Вуду, раскрыла её и сделала какой-то непонятный ритуал. После всего этого посмотрела на нас и уверенным тоном сказала, что по традиции стоит принести жертвенное приношение. Я едва услышав о жертвоприношении, решила быстро ретироваться и мы с подругой ушли от вещуньи, не доведя до логического завершения разговор.
Больше в тот вечер четкого гадалка не не поведала нам – как вам кажется, необходимо ли мне верить старушке?
Nice site really!
Отлично! Реально познавательно написано.
Интересная статья, только плохо, что у меня Интернет небезлимитный, а почасовой. Долго читать не могу, вынужден отключится.
Спасибо за регулярные интересные статьи.
Оч понравилось.
Харошенькая статья, по делу и неплохой стиль изложения.
Кстати это все придумали порядка лет 10 назад .:
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Whoever wrote this pathetic attempt at humor seriously lacks compassion and consideration. Cruel and ignorant people such as you make my blood boil and skin crawl; to read this enfuriated me. You acknowledge that peanut allergies are serious and fatal, yet continue to poke fun at them. The other 297 million should be understanding of those who actually suffer from a peanut allergy, rather than be consumed with their own “sufferings” of being asked to avoid eating peanuts in their presence, which are minor “sufferings” in comparison to living with a peanut allergy daily. And, they don’t suffer silently.. I, along with others with peanut allergies, must hear their complaints frequently. I do not believe someone could actually write this nonsense with convinction; instead, it was more likely to be written to see a reaction from furious readers.
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