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Peanuts on Northwest Airlines prompt protests.. War on Peanuts!
CNN ^ | Feb 16th, 2009

Posted on 02/16/2009 10:33:29 AM PST by TaraP

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To: TaraP

If you can’t live in the real world. Stay home.

A peanut handicap makes you unfit for living in society


21 posted on 02/16/2009 10:43:30 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The original point of America was not to be Europe)
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To: Badeye
I am actually not certain how many people are actually allergic to peanuts. We have a neighbor who claims her daughter is allergic to peanuts and has had them banned from the local public schools...and not just peanuts but peanut butter and all other products that have peanuts in them. Her claim is that her daughter will go into shock and may die if she comes in contact with any peanut product.

The other day I saw the daughter with her friends sharing a box of Girl Scout peanut butter cookies. There was no shock. I was surprised but stayed around for about an hour to make certain there would be no reaction.

Then I realized, her mother is about 40 years old which means the mother was born around 1969 and would have been between 8 and 12 during the Carter years when peanut butter was a staple in many if not most struggling households. I was in my late 20s and early 30s and ate a ton of peanut butters which was plentiful and relatively inexpensive as Carter drove our economy into ruin.

Flame away all you people who think that the percentage of people with life-threatening peanut allergies has quintupled since 1991. And I can save you a lot of time. You can also flame me for noting that there is no scientific evidence that vaccines cause Autism while you are at it.

22 posted on 02/16/2009 10:45:00 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: rovenstinez

Not knocking anyone who has a food allergy..

But IMHO Many people today have a Allergy to Sanity.


23 posted on 02/16/2009 10:45:23 AM PST by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Separation of Church and State)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

LOL!!!

Thanks for the ping!


24 posted on 02/16/2009 10:45:50 AM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: TaraP

Peanuts are not nuts. They are legumes. “Peas” People allergic to peanuts are the nuts.


25 posted on 02/16/2009 10:46:36 AM PST by DogBarkTree (Sometimes you have to let it go in order to get a Grip.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

>>The other day I saw the daughter with her friends sharing a box of Girl Scout peanut butter cookies. There was no shock<<

Get out!


26 posted on 02/16/2009 10:48:18 AM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

There is a small percentage of the human race that will in fact enter shock and die if they ingest peanuts, or its derivitives. Had a kid at Miami University (Ohio) a few years ago die when he ordered chinese take out.

He asked if there were peanuts in any of the food, and was told no.

They forgot to tell him they were using peanut oil in the fryers. Kid died within an hour of eating.

The bottom line is if you are one of these 1% types, its up to YOU to avoid them. JMHO.


27 posted on 02/16/2009 10:48:46 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: Darkwolf377

” but this tragic event is very rare, affecting approximately one per 830,000 children with food allergy every year. The prevalence of peanut allergy is about 1percent — “

Must be ‘new math’....

I don’t see how the author derives that 1% number fro 1 in 830,000......


28 posted on 02/16/2009 10:48:48 AM PST by Uncle Ike (At some point, government has to be the next bubble to burst. (H/T Freeper This_far))
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To: autumnraine
Kind of hard to ban these inexpensive, high protein treats (and PBJ sammiches!) from the schools and implement socialized, taxpayer funded lunches, if peanuts were NOT evil, you know.

Second hand peanuts killing children, second hand smoke killing children, what's next?

29 posted on 02/16/2009 10:51:15 AM PST by KittenClaws
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To: Badeye

To those that are allergic to peanuts...don’t eat them.

Now that we’ve covered this clearly...shut the hell up.

Thanks in advance,

Badeye

You don’t need to eat them to be effected in a closed environment with your air going everywhere you can give a person next to you or several rows back an anaphylactic reaction... but hey at least you got peanuts right..


30 posted on 02/16/2009 10:51:59 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: Uncle Ike

Wouldn’t 1% be something like 3 million? Weird.


31 posted on 02/16/2009 10:52:09 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life Capitalist American Atheist and Free-Speech Junkie)
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To: autumnraine

Peanuts are nasty and yes for many who have it the allergy becomes sever enough to kill with only a miner exposure to the dust (the dust is actually the protein people are allergic to).


32 posted on 02/16/2009 10:53:07 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: N3WBI3

If thats the case, buy a bubble to live in, and don’t fly.


33 posted on 02/16/2009 10:53:56 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: indcons

no you’re supposed to not eat them in a closed air environment where others can get sick... Didnt your mother teach you any manners and consideration or is sticking it to other people just too much damn fun?


34 posted on 02/16/2009 10:54:04 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: N3WBI3

See #33


35 posted on 02/16/2009 10:55:18 AM PST by indcons (An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

The number of people with allergies is on the rise especially peanuts. Nobody knows quite why but you cant fake a peanut allergy..


36 posted on 02/16/2009 10:55:21 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: muawiyah

yes but you Celiac disease is not affected if the person next to you eats them...


37 posted on 02/16/2009 10:56:28 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: KittenClaws

Whats next? Little green crackers


38 posted on 02/16/2009 10:57:54 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: bert

I pray no kid in your life is ever subject to an allergy that would lead you to lock them in the house because they are unfit for society..


39 posted on 02/16/2009 10:57:56 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: autumnraine

from junkfoodscience.com:

“One of the most commonly held beliefs is that the odor from peanut products, such as peanut butter, can result in an allergic reaction and anaphylaxis, said Dr. Michael C. Young, M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, allergy and clinical immunology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Young is also the peanut allergy expert, helped to develop the first guidelines for schools in managing food allergies as a member of the Massachusetts Dept. of Education Task Force on Anaphylaxis, and authored The Peanut Allergy Answer Book. In an article [available here] for the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, he said: “It is important to examine the scientific basis of these ideas before accepting them as fact.”

As he explained about the popular myth that the odor from peanut products could bring on a severe allergic reaction:

There are, in fact, a number of case reports in the medical literature of patients who report symptoms of difficulty breathing, chest tightness, skin rashes, itching, and various other symptoms—all from smelling peanut butter or being in the presence of peanut products. However, a recent blinded, placebo-controlled trial of children exposed to open peanut butter was unable to document any reactions.

Based on these reports of allergic reactions resulting from “inhalation”, many parents express concern that the mere presence of any peanut product can contaminate the surrounding airborne environment resulting in an entire room or area being unsafe for a child with peanut allergy. In evaluating these reactions from “airborne exposure,” it is important to remember several facts. First, allergic reactions to food are triggered by specific food proteins. Without contact with protein, there is no allergic reaction.

The study Dr. Young referenced was conducted by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. They took thirty young children with documented severe peanut-specific allergies (using IgE antibody testing and clinical anaphylaxis, contact reactions or positive reactions on double-blind, placebo-controlled oral challenges). These children underwent double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized exposures to peanut butter through skin contact and inhalation. Neither the children or researchers knew which exposure contained the peanuts or placebo (scent was masked with soy butter, tuna and mint) and contact exposure used soy butter with histamine. There were no serious reactions. They concluded that “casual exposure to peanut butter is unlikely to elicit significant allergic reactions,” even in at least 90% of highly sensitive children with peanut allergy.

Dr. Young’s article goes on to explain how food particles containing proteins can become airborne, such as during the peanut shelling process which can create a cloud of peanut particles, or releasing particles under pressure in an enclosed space; or high heat processing of peanuts; all of which can affect food industry workers. So, while there are case reports of severe asthma from airborne exposure to food in these extreme situations, “the typical inhalation reaction would be similar to that suffered by a cat-allergic person exposed to a cat walking into a room: itchy eyes, sneezing, and runny nose.” As he said, the “chance of a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction from airborne exposure is very small.”


40 posted on 02/16/2009 10:58:06 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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