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Anubis

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Idiot of the day...
It's probably more common than you realize. I know two people with the same severe allergic reaction to penuts/penut butter.

the only reason its comon is because we dont let those people die off like evoloution wants them to
 

blinky8225

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That's a pretty lame argument. You could say the same thing about eating meat. As hippies have pointed out, meat is an incredibly inefficient use of land, so it's not really a big part of most diets. UK's royal guards were called "beef eaters" because they had the luxury of a diet high in protein. I don't see many Brits (or Americans who decended from Brits) reacting badly to meat.

Turkey is a perfect example of something new. Turkeys are not native to Europe. The first settlers had never seen them before, yet there's no problem eating them.
How can you say the same thing about eating meat? Meat has been around eaten since the dawn of human existence, which occurred about 200,000 years ago. Before that, our ancestors also ate meat.

Earliest evidence of eating peanuts is a mere 10,000 years ago (source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/vu-eeo062507.php). That pales in comparison to eating meat.

Also, we can eat turkeys because we have been eating things similar to turkeys for quite some time, that is, other forms of meat. All meat consists of more or less the same proteins, fats, etc. Peanuts are a legume, which weren't commonly consumed until recently. They have a specific protein that certain people are deathly sensitive to.

Anyway, I was just presenting a theory. I don't think peanuts are awful for people that tolerate them well. It's just silly to say that everyone allergic to peanuts should die because natural selection would kill them in nature when the fact of the matter is that if we lived a "natural" lifestyle, few people would encounter them. They are not a common food unless cultivated to be one by humans.

As to those hippies, how else would we cycle the nutrients in soil without animals? Artificial fertilizers?
 

edro

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You really need to educate yourself before opening your mouth and inserting foot....
Elaborate you will, educated one.
I'm guessing you are a peanut allergy specialist.

You're telling me that an oil encapsulated irritant can magically transport through the air?
This isn't quantum physics...
 

edro

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Wikipedia quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_allergy
Dr. Michael C. Young notes in his book The Peanut Allergy Answer Book that while such secondary contact might pose a risk to an allergic individual, the occurrence of a reaction is rare and limited to minor symptoms.[21] Some reactions have been noted to be psychogenic in nature, the result of conditioning and belief rather than a true chemical reaction. Blinded, placebo-controlled studies by Sicherer et al. were unable to produce any reactions using the odor of peanut butter or its mere proximity.
Science, it's what's for dinner!

Its all these retarded paranoid parents who keep their children locked up and panic about anything they are ignorant about.
It's easier to panic about a risk than to understand it.
 

JulesMaximus

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Two of my son's friends are allergic to cats. One of them has been around our house enough that I think he's built up some immunity to them but this new friend came over last weekend and one of his eyes was all puffy and red and he was sneezing quite a bit within 20 minutes of being in our house.

We have 2 very friendly cats who are constantly around so they are impossible to avoid really.
 

Imp

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And it should, by not allowing them to attend the school in the first place. Or put them in a special confined class like the special needs children and also force them to wear masks as opposed to forcing the rest of the school not to ever bring anything with peanuts to school

the only reason its comon is because we dont let those people die off like evoloution wants them to

F*ck Yeah!

We should let the old, the retarded, and the handycapped die too. Yaaaaaa!!!! Natural selection FTW!!!!

I want my tax dollars pulled from all medical research. And no birth control.
 

Fayd

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One of my friends is allergic to cotton. Should we ban all schools from allowing kids to wear cotton clothes? Pretty much all of my clothes are cotton.

we should ban all things that anyone can be allergic to.

we go to school naked, carrying nothing.
 

Capt Caveman

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Well deserved banned, though the district grossly exaggerated the dangers of peanut allergies.

Should read the article you posted

The extensive nature of the hijinks led to one student with a peanut allergy being sent to a doctor and others not being able to attend school.

"That was an immediate factor because I knew several of our students have peanut allergies," said McClatchy High Principal Peter Lambert.

He said he called students with peanut allergies and told them not to come to school until later, but not all of the students were spared. "One student with a peanut allergy did come in and had a bad allergic reaction."
 

OutHouse

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Well deserved banned, though the district grossly exaggerated the dangers of peanut allergies.

wtf man. we had 2 kids in my sons cub scout pack who had nasty allergies to nuts. that shit is not a joke or exaggerated. epi pens on hand at all times.

its amazing when people dont understand something about somebody else they like you dcal think its all made up and bs.
 

alkemyst

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IMHO peanut butter is a school staple, when our kids started getting allergies from it that was the sign to weed them out.
 

unokitty

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Each year about 100 Americans die because they are struck by lightning.
About 45,000 die in car crashes.
About 1,300 are killed in gun accidents.
And about 150 die from allergy-related causes. [1]

So if you are expecting me to think that a Snickers bar in the same room with some precious child represents a clear and present danger, you are likely to be disappointed.

Just the facts.

Uno
 

ShawnD1

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Two of my son's friends are allergic to cats. One of them has been around our house enough that I think he's built up some immunity to them but this new friend came over last weekend and one of his eyes was all puffy and red and he was sneezing quite a bit within 20 minutes of being in our house.

We have 2 very friendly cats who are constantly around so they are impossible to avoid really.
I'm like that too. My eyes get puffy and I have difficulty breathing. I take enough ephedrine to kill an elephant before I go into my friend's apartment. He has 2 cats and he's a fucking slob who never vacuums or dusts or anything.

we should ban all things that anyone can be allergic to.

we go to school naked, carrying nothing.
Alright, but I can only fit 1 textbook in my ass.
 
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zinfamous

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Actually its not. I know a young boy right now, that wherever he goes, no matter who he is with, they have to have an epipen with them. And he has to be at an hospital with 10-15 mins if something should happen.

I doubt he's disputing the peanut allergy--This is VERY Common.

Just that some kid somehow gets an allergic reaction to....peanut vapors? I don't know what they are trying to suggest
 

Red Squirrel

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LOL what stupid kids. They could have graduated and be done school and they blew it on the last day. Not sure what will happen from there but they asked for it.

And LOL at the peanut allergy thing. Why is that such a huge deal now in schools? It's not like peanut allergies did not exist before.
 

zinfamous

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LOL what stupid kids. They could have graduated and be done school and they blew it on the last day. Not sure what will happen from there but they asked for it.

And LOL at the peanut allergy thing. Why is that such a huge deal now in schools? It's not like peanut allergies did not exist before.

i think they are just banned from the ceremony. no big deal.
 

sactoking

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If you think that smearing PB on the walls isn't a big issue because PB vapors or proximity aren't an issue then you don't know why PB restrictions exist. When someone with a severe peanut allergy is in a public classroom and sanitation measures are needed it's to ensure that peanut residue is not transmitted.

If someone smeared PB on the walls of the school, what do you think the odds are that PB might end up on someone's skin or clothes? Pretty high, I'd say. Someone bumps into a wall or, worse pushes a kid into a wall, with PB on it and trouble can be the result. What if someone puts their finger in the PB and doesn't sanitize afterward? They go to class and sit at a desk and inadvertently smear PB on it. The bell rings, periods change over, and now someone with a severe peanut allergy is at that desk...
 

ShawnD1

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If you think that smearing PB on the walls isn't a big issue because PB vapors or proximity aren't an issue then you don't know why PB restrictions exist. When someone with a severe peanut allergy is in a public classroom and sanitation measures are needed it's to ensure that peanut residue is not transmitted.

If someone smeared PB on the walls of the school, what do you think the odds are that PB might end up on someone's skin or clothes? Pretty high, I'd say. Someone bumps into a wall or, worse pushes a kid into a wall, with PB on it and trouble can be the result. What if someone puts their finger in the PB and doesn't sanitize afterward? They go to class and sit at a desk and inadvertently smear PB on it. The bell rings, periods change over, and now someone with a severe peanut allergy is at that desk...

Instead of wrapping the entire school in bubble wrap, why don't you just wear a bubble suit?
 
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