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September 27, 2008 Blog I love peanut butter and can hardly live without it. When my wife goes out to eat with her friend, I rejoice because I can finally have a peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Yesterday, I read a sad story in the Press of Atlantic City that really disturbs me. http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/186/story/268525.html The Long Beach Island School District has decided that kids who eat peanut butter sandwiches are not permitted to eat with the rest of the kids because some of them might be allergic to peanuts. Reporter Donna Weaver writes, "Nine-year-old Jasper Feudi has a decision to make: Eat peanut butter or sit with his friends at lunch." The school district's Web site gives its explanation for such a drastic measure. "Since 1960, the incidence of food allergies in children has grown fivefold, from one in 100 children to one in 20 children." School District Superintendent Garguilo said that the state Department of Health and Human Services now requires schools to come up with new policies to deal with students who have food allergies. This decision reminds me of the Philadelphia restaurant owner who was told to remove a sign from his establishment requiring customers to place their orders in English. The court said his employees must learn Spanish. It amazes me that no one complained about this blatant prejudice against speakers of 5000 other languages! Why did the school district single out kids with peanut allergies? What about kids allergic to tomatoes, french fries, milk or a thousand other foods? This is a typical example of the stupidity and illogical "thinking" prevalent in our modern society. The next step will be chasing us peanut butter lovers out of restaurants and making families eat separately if one of the family members has an allergy. I doubt if the ACLU will go to bat for us peanut butter lovers. They only fight for the rights of abortionists, gays and criminals. Peanut butter lovers, stand up for your rights or lose them! Not long ago, it was like that with smoking rules. One smoker had more rights than a thousand non-smokers. If we non-smokers didn't like their stench, we could go elsewhere - and most of us did. The rules have changed and smokers are now the ones who have to leave if they don't like the rules. That didn't happen because non-smokers stood up for their rights, but because of greedy smokers and lawyers, who started suing the tobacco companies for big money. Which gives me an idea. We peanut butter lovers are still in the majority and those with food allergies only make up 5% of the population. We must fight for our rights and threaten to sue if this situation is not reversed. Are you with me kids?
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