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When you have a potentially life-threatening allergy, everything involves calculations about potential risks and tradeoffs, all the way back up the supply chain
by stevesimmons 2y ago
When you have a potentially life-threatening allergy, everything involves calculations about potential risks and tradeoffs, all the way back up the supply chain to the farm.
Otherwise you're condemned to staying home with no social life, eating unprocessed basic food. And that's no way to live.
Even then, that's not risk free, either. I've had a severe peanut reaction to porridge I made from plain rolled oats, from a brand I'd been eating for years and trusted.
- gedy 2y ago> Otherwise you're condemned to staying home with no social life, eating unprocessed basic food. And that's no way to live. You can live a full life and still bring or prepare your own food without eating out. If a place bars you from bringing food, I think that's lawsuit worthy with a condition like hers.
- tsimionescu 2y agoThe point is that food you're preparing yourself is only marginally safer than food at a restaurant. You still have no way of knowing if the ingredients you're using haven't been accidentally contaminated with the allergen.
- shiroiushi 2y agoNo, you can't be 100% sure, but factories are much more controlled environments than restaurant kitchens.