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Given the uncertainty of the posters it's obvious most of you didn't even watch the video. Instead you just start in with your uninformed opinions without even making the slightest attempt at gaining a better understanding of the issue. The link is even in that damn thread, you don't have to do any work.

Actually, they can. The law is, food products that contain peanuts must be so marked, for this very reason.

To do so is part of the responsibility that comes with raising a child with this particular disability.

It is in childhood a child should learn to be mindful of his difficulties, whether it's a physical handicap, an allergy, whatever, and take the appropriate precautions. This is something all normal kids with allergies learn to do.

You never hear conservatives introducing retarded legislation requiring everyone to appease the minorities at the cost of the liberties of the majority.

I'm with Aestu and Eturnal and Azelma and company on this one. Just seems like more liberal bullshit to me..and I'm pretty liberal in many ways. You never hear conservatives introducing retarded legislation requiring everyone to appease the minorities at the cost of the liberties of the majority.

I use the term legislate loosely, to include creation of rules and policies..and not strictly limited to legality.

Is it the responsibility of every single parent in the kid's class too? What if they just don't give a shit and they give the kid peanut products and that kid shares with the girl in question, (at the very least) putting her in the hospital?

I think its really telling when the reporter asks "What happens if you get your way [getting the changes reverted] and the kid with the allergy accidentally eats peanuts and dies?" and the parent completely dodges the problem. The parents don't give a shit about the life of another child because their children have to (god forbid) LEARN TO WASH THEIR HANDS and ACCOMMODATE OTHERS WITH MEDICAL ISSUES.

This is very wrong because while incidental sickness is highly unlikely to kill or cause serious illness to a child, excessive cleanliness/lack of exposure to bacteria weakens the immune system and ensures the child will get sick much more often as an adult.

Children are naturally disgusting by design for a very good reason.

Dirt and bugs from other naturally disgusting kids will not kill a non-compromised child. Later in life, an opportunistic infection that an adult with a stronger immune system would survive could well prove lethal to an individual who was a victim of overprotectiveness as a child.

Also, the only reason for frequent handwashing WITHOUT antibacterial soap is hypochondria. Water is sticky, and all organisms need water to live. Sinks, even if they appear clean, are cesspools of disease. If you are not using antibacterial soap, all you are doing is exposing yourself to bugs, providing the bugs with a means of adhering to your hands, and with what they need to live, picking up whatever bugs whoever else used the sink had, and dropping your own off in turn.

If you want to clean your hands in a meaningful and effective way, either use antibacterial soap, or just DRY your hands without washing them.

Anyway, back to the topic, if these parents want a "peanut free environment" it is for them to have their child sent to one. It is not for other parents to suffer their compulsive behavior. Azelma is right on that this entitlement BS is bringing down this country and creating a generation of weaklings.

Will someone explain to me as to how not eating peanut products for one meal in the day and washing your hands twice a day is some sort of unreasonable repression?

but I'm pretty sure if you were the parents in this situation you'd do the exact same thing.

Go take a microbiology class. Re-read your post. Discover how wrong you are.

First off, the kid can just sit at the hypoallergenic table and all is well. Second, what other kids bring to school is irrelevant. The child should be taught discipline and to refuse snacks from others.

The fears of a hypochondriac are by definition unrealistic.

I agree with this, but for right now, the kid barely knows how to write, the school shouldn't be forced to say "your kid can handle it herself" when they're going to be the ones to blame if something goes wrong. Like I said before, if this was a couple years down the road, I'd say its unnecessary. Right now, however, its probably a good idea.

So I see you've been completely ignoring the fact that there could actually be a life or death situation about this, considering since you ate Amerinese (do you get it? its a food joke because General Tso's is an Americanized Bastardization of grease and brown sauce) food around some kid you used to know, peanut allergies can only be as bad as his and nobody can actually die from it. I shouldn't be surprised that you're basing your entire argument on this one kid you know (and thus, by proxy, everyone with a peanut allergy is just like him), but I'm still flustered.

Why would this kid's peanut allergy be any different than anyone elses?

It was a good, classy, authentic Chinese restaurant with high quality ingredients. To this day I remember how crispy and savory the pecans were in the prawns with lobster sauce

General Tso's chicken (sometimes Governor Tso's chicken, General Tao's chicken, General Tsao's chicken, General Gao's chicken, or General Gau's chicken) is a sweet-and-spicy, deep-fried chicken dish that is popularly served in American Chinese and Canadian Chinese restaurants. The origins of the dish are unclear. The dish was previously largely unknown in China and other lands home to the Chinese diaspora.[1]

The association with General Tso Tsung-tang, or Zuo Zongtang, a Qing dynasty general and statesman, is unclear. The dish is atypical of Hunanese cuisine, which is traditionally very spicy and rarely sweet. Instead, the dish is believed to have been introduced to New York City in the early 1970s as an example of Hunan- and Szechuan-style cooking.[1][2] The dish was first mentioned in The New York Times in 1977.[3]

Taiwan claim

As documented by Fuchsia Dunlop in the New York Times,[1] one claim is that the recipe was invented by Taiwan-based Hunan cuisine chef Peng Chang-kuei[6] (a.k.a. Peng Jia) (Chinese: 彭長貴; pinyin: Péng Chánggùi), who had been an apprentice of Cao Jingchen's, a famous early 20th century Chinese chef. Peng was the Nationalist government banquets' chef and fled with Chiang Kai-shek's forces to Taiwan during the Chinese civil war.[6] There, he continued his career as official chef until 1973, when he moved to New York to open a restaurant. That was where Peng Jia started inventing new dishes and modifying traditional ones; one new dish, General Tso's chicken, was originally prepared without sugar, and subsequently altered to suit the tastes of "non-Hunanese people." The popularity of the dish has now led to it being "adopted" by local Hunanese chefs and food writers, perhaps as an acknowledgment of the dish's unique status, upon which the international reputation of Hunanese cuisine was largely based.[1][4] Ironically, when Peng Jia opened a restaurant in Hunan in the 1990s introducing General Tso's chicken, the restaurant closed without success because the locals found the dish too sweet.[4]

New York claim

Peng's Restaurant on East 44th Street in New York City claims that it was the first restaurant in the city to serve General Tso's chicken. Since the dish (and cuisine) was new, Chef Peng Jia made it the house specialty in spite of the dish's commonplace ingredients.[1] A review of Peng’s in 1977 mentions that their “General Tso's chicken was a stir-fried masterpiece, sizzling hot both in flavor and temperature”.[7]

New York's Shun Lee Palaces, East (155 E. 55th St.) and West (43 W. 65th St.) also says that it was the first restaurant to serve General Tso's chicken and that it was invented by a Chinese immigrant chef named T. T. Wang in 1972. Michael Tong, owner of New York's Shun Lee Palaces, says, "We opened the first Hunanese restaurant in the whole country, and the four dishes we offered you will see on the menu of practically every Hunanese restaurant in America today. They all copied from us."[2]

The two stories can be somewhat reconciled in that the current General Tso's chicken recipe—where the meat is crispy fried—was introduced by Chef Wang, but as "General Ching's chicken," a name which still has trace appearances on menus on the Internet. However, the name "General Tso's chicken" traces to Chef Peng, who cooked it in a different way.[4]

First off, the kid can just sit at the hypoallergenic table and all is well. Second, what other kids bring to school is irrelevant. The child should be taught discipline and to refuse snacks from others.

The other kids DON'T have to wash their hands to safeguard this kid's life. Failure to wash hands isn't a danger to this child any more than to any of the many, many people who have this allergy.

Options have been presented to fully allow the child to be safe and well regardless of what the other children do. These parents are victimizing everyone else as a shill for their own anxiety.