• This week’s Newsweek features an essay called “A Plea For My Daughter” by a mom who unexpectedly discovered her daughter’s severe peanut and tree nut allergies during a workup for asthma. It’s a well-written piece, and her worries about how classmates’ parents will respond when her daughter starts school will no doubt strike a chord with other moms and dads.
  • Check out the latest Living with Food Allergies Blog Carnival!
  • Finally, one section of a minor league ballpark being made peanut-free for a few games wouldn’t seem to be too much of an imposition on truth, justice, and the American way of life, would it? Apparently not everyone agrees. What do you think is behind outright hostility towards accommodations of this sort — the type that don’t even prevent folks who want, for instance, peanuts at a ballpark from buying or bringing them? (Rational Jenn has some ideas…)
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