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Apparently Samsmom is the ignorant one. She attacks what she clearly does not understand. If her child has a true peanut allergy that is so severe, he shouldn’t be flying, since her argument is that any contact with peanut dust or oil would cause anaphylactic shock. Since that possibility is very real even outside an airline cabin, she’s making her own argument for living in a bubble.
Facts are stubborn things, and one of those facts is that the air onboard an airliner is cleaner than in most public buildings, so there’s very little, if any, real risk involved in flying on a jet where peanuts have been consumed before or are even being served now.
Another stubborn fact is that you can be desensitized to peanut allergies, but if you’re unwilling to do it, don’t blame others for not bending to your petty fears.
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I am utterly amazed at the ignorance displayed by some of those commenting here. Allergies are not “perceived” as Mulder suggests, and it is ridiculous and unrealistic to suggest that people with severe food allergies “live in a bubble”. No one who has an allergy chooses to be in this situation, and walking onto an airplane where peanuts either are being consumed or have been consumed is like playing Russian Roulette.
We are talking about a SNACK ON AN AIRPLANE. Can you really be complaining about your rights to eat a snack?!? My son could DIE because you can’t forgo a snack for two hours.
While we could drive everywhere we need to go for the rest of his life, there may come a time when time constraints force us to fly. No matter how much “responsibility… more »
An outright ban should be in place. « less