In article >, Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
[snip]
>
>So you would obliterate peanuts from the face of the earth? How idiotic is
>that?
[...]

Actually, this is one of the things that I find quite amusing in a
warped way, given modern concern over GM foods and such.

If someone was only now trying to introduce peanuts to Western cusine,
they would be banned. The same would apply to spuds (contain poison);
prawns and most other crustacea (similar allergic effects to peanuts);
mangoes (contain caustic sap); and ... and ... and. In fact we would
have a pretty boring menu today if the so-called precautionary
principle had been applied by our ancestors some millennia ago. :-)


Cheers, Phred.

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