I can certainly sympathize with the decision of this school district to ban peanut (and certain other nut) products -- my son is allergic to peanuts. I'm wondering, though: where were all of these sensitive people when I was growing up? The explanation given in the article does not seem persuasive:
An allergy specialist at Eastern Maine Medical Center says such allergies are on the rise because of an increasingly nut-rich American diet.
"On the rise"... I wasn't aware of any incidences of the allergy more than 15 or so years ago. They may have been there, but they were completely off the radar. I would also be interested in seeing some details regarding how the American diet has been increasingly nut-rich in recent years.
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