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sesamenom-misc · 1 month ago

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adding these additions from @vaspider in the reblogs in because yes, allergies/celiac CAN actually be That Sensitive. two weeks ago I nearly had to go to the ER because I was in the same building as a popcorn machine dispensing buttered popcorn, using "dairy free" butter with artificial flavoring vaguely derived from casein/dairy butter for two minutes. i am allergic to the flu vaccine because the viruses are grown in chicken eggs. i am allergic to the very air in starbucks. my immune system can detect egg and dairy contamination in concentrations too small to be legally required to be labeled.

polyculture crops definitely are an improvement for the vast majority of people, but the impact on the minority people consists of symptoms ranging from "miserable and unable to work for a week" to "death". personally, I do support finding better/more sustainable agricultural practices to replace the Corn Monoculture TM, but it is in some cases a literal matter of life and death for products such as walnut-grown wheat and wheat-grown walnut to be clearly and properly labeled, and for those products to not be the only available and/or affordable options at any given grocery store.

#text posts #agriculture #allergies #food allergies #problems #for non allergy people (or at least non-off-the-charts-anaphylactic allergy people) of whom i assume OP is one #imagine there is a field of lets say. lettuce #and in order to combat an infestation the farmer has decided to cover the field in rat poison pellets 24/7 for the entirety of its growth #and by cover i mean those poor lettuces are barely poking out of the sea of poison. every small animal within a two mile radius is dead.#and then the farmer harvests it #and *separating large leafy plants from poison pellets is easy enough right?*#and now you're at the grocery store. you see the Rat Poison Lettuces.#there aren't any poison pellets in the display box as far as you can see #but would you really still eat the Rat Poison Lettuce -_-#'there is functionally no danger of cross contamination' and yet there is 'functionally' no danger of half the situations i have reacted to #IF YOU CANNOT SAY THERE IS *NO DANGER AT ALL* YOU NEED TO TREAT IT LIKE A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION #it is approximately a one in a million chance last i checked to have *any* reaction to flu virus egg protein residue #meanwhile i had Instant Anaphylaxis #nobody i live with can eat eggs or anything overly cheesy in the house.#i have my own set of dishes and if you use a pot for eggs or dairy that is forever an Allergy Pot #which must be washed and stored separately from everythign else and never again used for anything in proximity to my food #not to mention that ops second post focuses entirely on wheat-contaminated walnuts and not walnut-contaminated wheat #when celiac can be one of the most sensitive food related immune disorders #AND every subsequent allergic reaction can increase the severity of your next one.#within ten years i went from 'stomachache from eating a full plate of contaminated food'#to 'i breathed in One Oxygen that touched a cheese once and i am trying very hard not to die in the middle of the sidewalk'#if youre going to dismiss every single person in the reblogs mentioning severe allergy risks please go inhale rat poison /s #apologies if this comes off as overly aggressive. cross contamination keeps nearly killing me and i feel overly aggressive right now

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