Posted on 05/03/2013 6:45:33 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
Lesley University is not nearly so isolated, but it has the same mandatory policy about its student cafeteria. There was a problem however. Several students had Celiac disease. They needed to eat gluten free in order to not get sick.
So naturally they told the college and the college allowed them an exception to the mandatory cafeteria plan, letting them keep the money and use it to buy gluten-free food off campus. Right?
No, the students sued the college to mandate that the college accommodate them. I don’t feel sorry for Lesley because, frankly, I still bear a grudge against all colleges that use this business model so that students are forced to pay for services they don’t want on condition of being a student. (Of course, that was the organization’s choice. I never dreamed of suing over it.) Now it has turned into a big expense because the only way to provide economical food is to be able to buy in bulk and mass produce the meals. That is no longer possible. Lesley University did not even fight for their right to determine what food they will provide. They caved and made the following concessions:
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Food Allergy ADA Nanny State PING!
If the food allergies are as severe and as varied as my son - it can be and for him was, a life-threatening situation.
The captive student meal plans are a problem for folks who cannot eat most of the food that is served. Taking their money or meals even though you understand they’ll need to eat elsewhere is basic THEFT
Or be like my son- school did not permit moms to pack a lunch- he could eat virtually nothing at school- we lived in the country and each day I went in to get him at noon. Take him back after he ate.
either my sensitivity increased or they’ve added more gluten genetically.
Or they have added a gluten enhancer or flat out added a different wheat.
Can I get disability - and a monthly government check funded by sweat equity taken at the point of a gun from people that work - if I’m allergic to the narcissism of the latest “food allergy” craze?
Maybe a handicap parking permit good at anywhere other than Whole Foods?
Never heard of any of this.
In countries where people are really starving and dying of hunger, they would kill you for a nut and gluten filled dairy snack. They would club Michele Obama over the head like a baby seal for a Big Mac.
Airborn stuff?
I have never heard of a beef allergy.
It is a little unusual to be allergic to peanuts and almonds as they are totally unrelated, but certainly not impossible.One of the problems with food allergies is that you might eat something 100 times with no ill effects. The next time you might react.
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This is bad yo.
Schools cafeterias nowadays have “peanut butter tables”.
That’s where kids who are allergic sit, right? WRONG. That’s where the kids who bring peanut butter are forced to sit because a minority are allergic. Fascism.
If only being “homophobic” was a recognized “disability”, maybe I could sue to get faggotry off my tv screen.
Yeah, not that hard to find (and provide) alternatives in a cafeteria.
Mexicans have an excellent idea about that, but Salvadorans make them thicker and out of whole white corn ~ and with a touch of a few flakes of red pepper ~ exactly what you use with pizza ~ it tastes like bread!
I've even made creamy sausage gravy on toasted salvadoran tortillas ~ now, does that seem too difficult?
You never read about Rasputin ~ he had an incredible tolerance or arsenic! Just because he didn’t die from it didn’t make it nonpoisonous!
University of MD researchers discovered that the percentage of the elderly with gluten intolerance is higher than the percentage among chillun'.
Obviously we could leap to the wrong conclusion which is that by avoiding gluten we live longer ~ so let's leap to this one ~ it's a normal condition. Everybody was like that before agriculture was invented. Give me back my fresh seal meat and beluga whale! Take that bread and stuff it! Bwahahahaha!
Oh, the LgE test doesn't work on folks who don't produce E antibodies. That's a subset in all of this.
It’s ethnic ~ some analysts trace it back to lapland, although the first case was reported in Classical Rome, and the Greeks may have known about it. They, however, were busy mining amber in Scandinavia and undoubtedly brought back some really unusual platinum blond slaves ~ who had their way with the womenfolk! Again, a hearty Bwahahahahaa!!!
People slip that into food thinking they are heppin' out.
It usually causes some hemolytic anemia which needs to be followed with blood tests. Most people lose 1-2 gram of hemoglobin, an amount most people don't notice. It also can convert some hemoglobin to methemoglobin, but again not usually to a significant degree. Some people with DH are controllable with fairly low doses which cause less of this. Most patients don't report noticing any difference, but the potential for one is there. Those with G-6-PD deficiency are at higher risk, although I have one such on Dapsone and doing well. Dapsone also rarely causes aplastic anemia. You have to follow blood counts closely at first, but eventually I just check counts annually on most folks. Problems that arise, other than aplastic anemia, should reverse fairly quickly with lower dosage or discontinuation.
Have a cousin with it. Also, he drank goat's milk as a kid and now wolf's down the best goat's milk cheese with relish, on broad ~ his mother had celiac, but he doesn't.
The posters of this thread do not seem to understand that mandatory meal plans are a profit center for universities.
All universities pretend it’s not so, but a simple look at the financials proves otherwise. Tuition, fees, room & board are all profit centers. If they have to hold tuition steady for politics, they raise fees and room/board.
In this case they’ll love it. They’ll raise room & board and say they have to to comply with ADA, then they’ll brag how they’ve “held tuition steady”
The reason they don’t simply opt kids with allergies out is that they then can’t raise the rates on everyone and blame “ADA”.
Student loans will be happily increased to make up for it.
It’s a scam
>I have never heard of a beef allergy.<
I ran into the first beef allergy case in an acquaintance last year. Sure enough, she had been bitten by a tick.
My daughter had 7 vials of blood drawn for testing at a lab. Apparently, there is only one place in the country where they can test for this tick-borne protein.
I think there are several issues with the way foods are processed and the ingredients used. Over the years I have a bigger and bigger problem with processed foods. Almost everything has some form of soy now. They also take normal things, and process it down to just the particular thing they need for it’s qualities, whether it be thickeners, emulsifiers, or other enhancers etc. I think this breaking of food from whole natural ingredients is a problem for our bodies to process. The obsession with adding protein isolates and selective ingredients to make the product “look better” on nutrition labeling is harmful. We should be just eating normal food as it’s produced by nature. That doesn’t mean people won’t still have allergies but I think it will eliminate a lot of “created” allergies.
Give me some doultz, thin slices of chilled northern fish flesh, and imported wasabi, and it's all good!
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