Comments on: Peanut plaintiff feeds airline lawsuit surge

By: Miss_Lyss

Miss_Lyss — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:48:00 +0000

Some people are so severely allergic that even the dust molecules are deadly. My mom is one of these severely allergic people and we carry epi pens on all 5of us and there was an old couple who opened the bag 4 aisles behind us and she went into anaphylaxis just because of the molecules so justbbecause you carry them doesn’t mean anything u can still die.

By: Miss_Lyss

Miss_Lyss — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:37:00 +0000

So what your saying that if someone you love for example your mom dad son daughter husband brother sister niece nephew best friend…. ECt….was allergic to peanuts and you politely ask people to not eat peanuts and someone as inconsiderate and selfish as you gave you the same answer as your giving to others you be ok with allowing them to put your loved ones life in danger because they wanna eat peanuts ? It’s not like your going to die without peanuts substitute it out for the short flight your on instead of endangering the lives of others.

By: KW

KW — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:22:16 +0000

Hello,

People have got to wake up and see what is really happening. Those that have a severe peanut allergy go into analphylatcic shock and may die when peanuts or peanut products are ingested. So do not be so selfish as to eat some thing that may cause someone else to die. Remember, 80% of all allergy deaths are from PEANUTS!

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:22:32 +0000

In this country, we’ve been going down a path of “individual rights trumping group rights” for a long time. At some point, everything you want to do will violate someone else’s “rights”. There will be no principle of “majority rule” anymore: it will be “minority rule”, and if you take that far enough you end up with anarchy, or no rule at all. There are two planes of discussion going on here: 1) the health of a poor defenseless child; and 2) the principle of a free society. Both need to be protected. The challenge is to arrive at some agreement in which both principles are protected. There are certainly many people with many different food allergies. I am allergic to shellfish, which has the same symptoms as a peanut allergy. Of course, I am an adult now, and I don’t feel empowered to prevent a restaurant from serving shellfish, just because of my allergy. Life needs to go on. I look at this as MY responsibility and no one else. If a child has an allergy, the parents are responsible to teach the child on what to do, in cooperation with his environment outside of the home. It is wrong to teach a child that he can expect to have control over others’ environment in order to not worry about the effects of his allergy. It is something HE needs to be taught about controlling what he does, otherwise, when he leaves home, he will not be able to cope with an unrelenting environment. I can guarantee you that, although you may be able to pressure a school system into compliance, there’s no way you’re going to be able to pressue the whole society into compliance. At some point, the allergic person IS going to be the ONLY person responsible. Period.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:39:59 +0000

Have you ever thought that you might be suied for not putting the peanuts away when you were told to by the airline? If you caused my child to die on a flight you better believe I would be coming after you for everything and that is if you make it off the flight alive!

By: Greg C

Greg C — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:37:45 +0000

Anyone who thinks the peanut lawsuit is silly is an idiot. The fact of the matter is that peanut allergies are rising in this country dramatically. Peanut free public transportation is not an unreasonable option. Does it honestly inconvience you that much to not eat peanuts for the duration of a flight, a train ride or a bus ride inorder to prevent killing someone. Peanuts kill people with these allergies pretty quickly, it is not like it takes months or years, it can be a few minutes. I can garuntee that if someone sparked a cigarette on a form public transportation everyone would be “singing a different tune.” The travel industry could even offer peanut free busses, planes and train cars at little expense and I would bet that the profit from these flights would not be effected too much. The fact of the matter is that in this day in age people have to travel. Whether it be for a job, getting home from school, seeing relatives, ect. Are people with these allergies supposed to stop living a normal life because people like peanuts? What about in schools? I can only assume that the same people that believe that these lawsuit are silly are against peanut free schools because of their child’s “right” to eat peanuts.

This really seems like a stupid argument to me. If one can save another’s life by not eating a peanut, the soultion seems simple. Besides, how do you think someone going into anaphalitic shock (a life threatening condition btw) would effect your travel plans? Here’s how, the plane would have to make an emergency landing and that person would need to be brought to the hospital (Yes, this needs to happen quickly, even with benadryl and an epi-pen.). Your travel plans would be all messed up because you could not go the flight with out a peanut.

By: LYNNE SMITH

LYNNE SMITH — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:35:32 +0000

I am a Grandmother of a 9 yr Grandson who has peanut allergies, all tree nuts actually. We take every precaution that we are capable of doing. We love our Grandson Bigger than the Moon, and the thought of what might happen to him because of this curse of allergies, is sooooo frightning ! It makes my blood boil to read what some of you have written on the matter. Have you no heart at all ? How selfish can you be to not be willing to sacrifice just a little by not eating the nuts you brought on a flight, even if someone right next to you ask you nicely not to, because it could kill them ! YOU JUST DON’T CARE ??? I garantee that if you had a loved one that had the same problem as my grandson and so many others, you would be singing a different tune. This world could surly use more people, like some that wrote, that care for there fellow human being !! I’ve seen stories about animals that take in and care for perfectly strange animals to there own species and nurse them and care for them. Wouldn’t it be nice if the human race could all have that same instinct.
Yes, I am speaking to you Jane K.

By: Unicorn

Unicorn — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:22:23 +0000

You know, there just might be an opportunity here for someone to create an airline that can accomodate people with these severe food allergies. Extensive air filtering, peanut-free snacks/meals, severe limits on what kinds of food passengers can bring onboard… it can be done, if people are willing to pay for it.

I would NEVER trust an airline in today’s environment to promise that a flight was peanut-free. You’re lucky if they can get you from point A to point B with your luggage reasonably on time, forget about feeding you or making sure what they do feed you doesn’t have any peanut products.

It’s the old story: the rights of the group vs the rights of the individual.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:35:21 +0000

Yikes! I think a lot of people are barking up the wrong tree on this one.

@ Regina: “This lawsuit is typical of what is going on in our society…another person who thinks the world revolves around her.”

I think Regina hit it right on the nose here.

The bottom line is what is a reasonable accomodation? I can’t think of a feasible way that the airline can GUARANTEE that a flight is completely peanut free. Passengers bring peanuts and other food types on the airplane all the time. There are patients who are so severely allergic to peanuts that a trace of peanut dust from days ago will cause them to go into anaphylaxis. Therefore, these patients simply just should not fly. Yes, it sucks, but thats life!

I know these are a little extreme, but
- Maybe we should black out the sun, because patients with xeroderma pigmentosa will become very ill when exposed to the sun
- Maybe we should pave a wheelchair ramp to the top of Mt Everest, for everyone in a wheelchair who wants to “climb” Everest
- Maybe the airline should rip out a row of seats to accomodate someone in a body cast

The bottom line, airlines should take REASONABLE precautions. Guaranteeing that an airline is peanut dust free in my opinion is IMPOSSIBLE!

By: JEH

JEH — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:39:58 +0000

If you, your child, or your loved one are THAT allergic – drive!