If you’re in Europe, we’ll I’ve got news for you, 2/3rds of European schools have at least one child with an anaphylactic peanut allergy. So peanut allergies are not just from excess freedom it would seem.
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ExLisper@linux.community 11 months agoIt’s because all the freedom they have.
But seriously, they have some crazy allergies there. No idea why, probably because of all the artificial food and contamination in general. It’s just not a very healthy place to live.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
ExLisper@linux.community 11 months ago
Cool, why peanuts are not banned in European schools then?
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
/shrug
I think it’s mostly people in the thread are over exaggerating how common it actually is to ban them for a humorous effect. Maybe overly litigious society, schools don’t want to be sued because some dumb bully throws a peanut at a kid who can die from it.
The increasing allergies across the industrialized world is really interesting though, and not a United States specific thing. A lot probably has to do with eradication of parasites. Much of the immune system parts responsible for allergies don’t have any role in response to bacteria or virus, but are intended to fight off parasites. And this is a gross over simplification, but the basics are without any parasites to fight off (since they’ve been eradicated in the industrialized world) it gets dysregulated and starts reacting to benign targets.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do you know if they’ve tried… shooting the allergies?
MustrumR@kbin.social 11 months ago
Can't we just nuke the allergies?