Leave the peanuts at home

ASHLEYWEYLER NEWSEDITOR

ARW723@CABRINI EDU

Ilove peanut butter. It is one of my favorite foods. I can’t imagine not being able to eat peanut butter. I can’t imagine that eating peanut butter could kill me. People who suffer from food allergies, more specifically peanut allergies, have to constantly watch what they eat because they fear deadly consequences.

Afew months ago, in my local paper, The Daily Times of

Delaware County, a woman who called herself “Fuming at Lindwood Elementary,” wrote to the Sound Off section. She was livid over the fact that her child, a kindergarten student at Lindwood Elementary in Boothwyn, Pa., was not able to bring peanut butter snacks to school anymore because a classmate had a peanut allergy.

The woman said, “As a taxpayer and parent of a kindergarten student, nobody has the right to tell me what I can pack in his or her lunch. Lindwood parents need to speak up. We have the right.”

This Sound Off upset my family, especially my Aunt Joanie who’s son, Joey, has a severe peanut allergy. I thought tomyself, well my cousin has rights too, lady. He has the right tolive. Call me crazy, but I think