BITE — Banning peanut butter

Short & Curly

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Philosophy, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Nut allergies are one of the super dangerous food allergies. If you’re allergic to nuts, it causes anaphylaxis and sometimes death. Today’s BITE: Should we ban nuts since people with allergies can die if they eat them? Thanks to Tammy for this excellent question.

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0:00.0	This is an ABC podcast.
0:05.0	Big questions, bite sized.
0:09.0	Short and curly bite.
0:11.0	Bites, bites, bites, bites, bites.
0:12.8	Short and curly bites.
0:15.2	Big questions, small serving size.
0:18.2	Hey Carl, welcome to Molly's House of Smoothies.
0:25.0	Wow, hello, do you guys sell smoothies?
0:27.0	Do we sell smoothies at Molly's House of Smoothies?
0:31.0	Yeah, do you?
0:32.0	We do. We actually only sell smoothies. It's the entire business.
0:36.0	Oh, great. Okay, well in that case, can I get banana, blueberry, peanut butter?
0:42.0	Oh, sorry, matey, we don't do peanut butter. Oh, sorry matey, we don't do peanut butter.
0:45.0	Or any kind of nut product for that matter.
0:47.0	Oh, I love me some buttery crunch. Why not?
0:51.0	Because if you're allergic to nuts, you can die from them?
0:55.0	Right, but I'm not allergic to nuts.
0:58.0	Yeah, but other people are.
1:00.0	Three out of 100 children in Australia have a peanut allergy.
1:04.3	Blanket rule, I've just banned all nuts so that we play it safe and everyone can enjoy a risk-free
1:09.8	smoothie.
1:10.8	But if something is really bad for just a few people, does that mean everyone has to miss out?
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