Posted on 02/16/2009 10:33:29 AM PST by TaraP
It may be sad, but it is true.
How about mentioning the primary issue - air recirc systems - smoking was banned because it’s cheaper to make everyone on the aircraft breath bad air?
They are germ-soup incubators on a red-eye because of this. Venting fresh air costs more, I guess. Hm.
yea and last month I faked a trip to the ER and drugs for my kid because she got a hold of some PB... We nutty anti peanut people are devious indeed..
LOL!
For the most part I agree with you but Airplanes are a special deal because of the closed environment.
Yes it is serious and deadly.
Don’t you think its unreasonable of people suffering from a rare disease to make reasonable accommodations to the world and not make the world meet their needs?
Of course this is a parallel to the americans with disabilities act which is frequently used to bankrupt small companies because 1 customer decided he was discriminated against. I know one blind guy who goes around looking for people he can sue.
Southwest Airlines has been serving peanuts as snacks for most if not all its 35+ years of operation. Last year they flew over 104 million passengers and not one died from peanuts or second hand peanut odors that I know of. Given the lawsuit happy legal profession, I’m sure that Southwest would have banned peanuts a long time ago if they were bad.
it takes a special kind of person to 5h17 on other people for a bag of peanuts..
See #40 too - the “peanut allergens spreading through air” nonsense is exactly that - junk science and nonsense.
I love peanuts. Out of the shell, out of the can, peanut butter straight out of the jar.
I'd be real *issed if they started banning them.
There has to be some scientific reason for this upsurge in peanut allergies.
Horse crap its true... not asking the peanut plant, or food derived, be obliterated merely that on a three hour plane ride people go without.. That does not disqualify one from society..
Doesn’t your daughter have one of those emergency injectors? Seems reasonable to carry one of those if you are that allergic.
” I know one blind guy who goes around looking “
Ummmmmmmmm.........
If I were a passeger in an airplane and someone asked me to stop eating peanuts because of some junk science peanut inhalation theory, I’ll call that person an idiot and continue eating them.
There are other airlines that don’t serve peanuts. People with allergies relating to peanuts have that choice.
Nobody is dying because the passenger next to you is eating peanuts.
Nobody. This is ridiculous, IMHO.
Sorry forgot my drum roll after that. But seriously he goes ‘seeking’ some company with a perceived failure to comply.
Did you read the part of the report above about the double blind study?
Contact with the actual protein in the peanut product is crucial, the mere odor is merely discomforting.
I’ve seen people gasp for breath at the sight of a cigarette in someone’s mouth only to fail to notice that it had not been lit.
Hard to keep children away from something so ubiquitous as peanut butter products.
Stay vigilant.
But they have peanuts in airports, in taxi’s, rental cars and so forth.
How is a airplane any different?
Yes we do... are you aware that every expose to something you are allergic to makes that allergy worse? Are you also aware that the epipens have an effective use time of about a half hour during which you’re supposed to be getting to an ER?
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