Petition calls for peanut-free zones on planes

The Hill ^ | September 2, 2014 | Tim Devaney

[Gabz]

Smoking was proven to impact the health of all people, not just a very very tiny minority of folks. That’s apples to oranges and you know it.

Actually, you are the one who is wrong.

Smoking has only proven to impact the health of SOME smokers and not to otherwise healthy people who may get a whiff of a smoker's smoke.

[Dartman]

What happens if a peanut falls on the floor and rolls down the aisle into coach? Do they have to do an emergency landing?

Don't forget the fighter escort.

[hal ogen]

How about LIB free zone?

[bgill]

I grew up in peanut country. Everyone who had a patch of land grew peanuts. Kids would work the harvest. There was peanut dust everywhere. That was also during the time the government had free peanut butter so every school lunch tray had some sort of peanut on it. One day it would be a peanut butter cookie, the next would be peanut butter smeared on apple slices, the next a dixie cup of peanut butter and honey for the homemade yeast roll - yummmm! Not one kid was allergic to peanuts back then.

I'm not saying there aren't people who are allergic to peanuts, people can be allergic to anything, but I do not believe there are as many as parents make it out to be. These days, their precious little treasures are allergic to more things than what they're not. I'd like to see the stats on these allergies in countries where there are no helicopter parents and kids are still allowed to play outside in the fresh air.

[buffyt]

Could be all the chemicals in and on our foods. Hormones, insecticides, GMO, etc. The foods we eat today are not the same as the foods we ate in the 1950s. Remember how tiny strawberries and chickens were back then? Now everything is GMO and laced with chemicals and drugs.

[miss marmelstein]

I never knew anyone who was seriously allergic to anything as a kid. Maybe parents didn’t brag about it when I was a kid - helicopter parents love to brag about their kids problems. My parents were embarrassed by their children and so never spoke about them to anyone - which is how it should be!!!

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Well Dave, if someone were to ask me personally and politely, not to open that bag of peanuts, I'd be happy to leave it closed.

On the other hand, if they want to sicc the FedGov on me, yes, f--- them. Repeatedly, and with various implements.

[bgill]

“Hey I have a severe allergy and might die, could you refrain from eating peanuts for an hour or two, please?”

You asked politely and said please. That brings out more civility than being ordered to do something.

[miss marmelstein]

Boy, you’re on fire! Good for you. These people will never stop with their demands - because it feels good to roll passengers and airlines - what a power high it all is.

Where are these kids on trains? I never heard of peanuts being attacked on a train or a Greyhound bus.

[miss marmelstein]

A smoker friend of mine would say, after being asked to put his cigarette out: Sure I will - in your eye. He was what you’d call, Hardcore.

[trisham]

I hate flying.

[bgill]

What!?! I raised chickens. We had chickens half again the size of chickens now days and strawberries twice the size. Strawberries are picked too early so they have no taste, have too much white and are small.

I do agree about GMOs and other chemicals in our foods and carpets and uphostery, etc. Living 24/7 indoors is not helping kids build up their immunities. Let them play in the sunshine. Let them run around the yard. Let them scrape their knees.

[Organic Panic]

I would think calling ahead and politely asking fellow passengers would wprk just fine. I know there are jerks everywhere but is some jerk going to insist on peanuts when the peer pressure is tgere? Better yet bribe the 3 rows in back and front with a glass of gratitude wine. No more rules and laws for cryin out loud.

[Fledermaus]

I was born in 1959 and up to about 5 years ago I never heard of ANYONE with “peanut allergy”. Peanut butter was/is a staple in millions of homes.

[catnipman]

I’d sign a petition for a baby-free zone as long as the zone was big enough to cover the whole airplane.

[Gabz]

Are you kidding? That never happened. Smokers attitudes were like yours about peanuts..."If you don't like my smoke, deal with it...your problem, not mine."

I beg to differ. With one exception, the only time I have ever encountered that type attitude was in the home or business of a smoker. That one exception was my mother and even then it only applied to my brother's house or car - and I still found it appalling.

[Gabz]

Living 24/7 indoors is not helping kids build up their immunities. Let them play in the sunshine. Let them run around the yard. Let them scrape their knees.

Exactly.

I picked my daughter and a friend up from school this afternoon following an extra band class session they are both taking, originally they were going to practice on our upstairs back deck, but I suggested they do it under the tree out front because at least there is some shade there. The deck has no shade and it was 103 out there at 5pm because it is on the west side of the house.

When the friend's mom came to pick her up she and I laughed because she thought it great I had chased the girls into the woods so the deer could hear the off notes!!!

[Hulka]

No need for apology. I offer mine if I came off rude.

[miss marmelstein]

That’s OK! Freepers are a tough lot and we need thick skins, I’m afraid.

[KoRn]

You are sadly spot on in your analysis....

I couldn’t have said it any better. :(