Your Peanuts Are NOT More Important Than Someone Else’s Life
<p>She was only <em>12 years old</em>. She had her whole life ahead of her.</p>
<p><strong>But now she’s been cruelly taken away by a culture that still doesn’t take nut allergies seriously.</strong></p>
<p>Her family is broken into pieces that can never be fit back the same way again. All because education and legislation on nut allergies are appallingly bad <em>(read: practically nonexistent)</em>.</p>
<p>In this case, it was a drink she enjoyed regularly that had somehow been contaminated by nuts. She knew immediately that something was wrong. But by then, it was too late.</p>
<p>And her story, like so many others, will probably never make front-page news. It will probably be ignored once again by those who <em>could</em> make change but choose not to.</p>
<p>And so the cycle continues, and people with severe nut allergies continue to live in fear that someone else’s incompetence will be the end.</p>
<p>To honour her memory, I’m writing this piece to highlight the real threats of nut allergies and to help fuel much-needed social change on the matter.</p>
<h1>Here’s the thing…</h1>
<p>Some people seem to be under the impression that if they are eating nuts in public, they can’t harm people with a nut allergy. After all, it’s not like they are shoving it down their throats, right?</p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/illumination/your-peanuts-are-not-more-important-than-someone-elses-life-69ee7465c9e4"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>