Gabby wrote:
> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>> I didn't think they still gave out peanuts on planes. Whenever I
>> fly, which is a heck of a lot in the last couple of years, you get a
>> bag of pretzels or a granola bar. What if someone is allergic to
>> the oats used in granola? Or has a sensitivity to flour used in the
>> pretzels? At some point a person has to be responsible for
>> themselves and not expect the world to kow-tow just because they
>> have an allergy. A person with such severe allergies should carry
>> an epi-pen. My 2 cents.
>
> Peanut allergy is one of the few I know of where the allergic person
> can die because YOU ate peanuts. Just the opening of bags of peanuts
> on a plane can trigger an anaphylactic reaction. I'm not aware of
> anyone ever dying because someone else ate wheat.
>
> The epi-pen is a stop-gap measure to buy time while you haul ass to
> the nearest ER. Depending on the flight, an ER may not be accessible
> in enough time for the epi-pen to be worth anything. All it would do
> is prolong death.
>
> FWIW, not all airlines have stopped offering peanuts. A few have
> taken the attitude of some of the posters he your allergy is your
> problem, not ours.
>
> Gabby

I generally fly Northwest (although with the bankruptcy that will probably
stop) or Delta. I've never been offered peanuts on any of their flights.
Call me insensitive, but I still don't believe it is the airlines
responsibility to worry about a single customer possibly having a food
allergy. You get 150 people on a plane and they are supposed to change
their policy because they might have one passenger with a peanut allergy?
You know that's not how big business works.

And a lot of people bring their own snacks on the plane with them; I know I
do (usually cheese crackers, but sometimes evey PB crackers!). What are
they supposed to do, start confiscating anything with peanuts? I, for one,
would protest.

I also do not remember anyone having peanut allergies when I was a kid in
the 1960's. I took a PB sandwich for lunch every day and no one ever got
ill from being around me while I was eating it. I can't comment on why this
has become so prevalent; I can only comment on personal experience which is
this: no child around me ever had an allergic reaction when I was eating my
lunch.

Jill