First they came for the smokers. Then they came for peanut butter.

mkpdavies · 14-02-2008, 02:48 PM

Junkfood Science: Food fears run amuck: Government outlaws aromas

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Government officials in Sydney, Australia, have determined that employees must be protected from any exposure — the mere whiff of a scent of food that might be harmful to some. Officials have banned peanut butter sandwiches from a government building, which houses seven government agencies. According to the Daily Telegraph, employees were told in an email that the ban was put into place because “the smell could trigger a deadly allergic reaction.” As reporter Byron Kaye writes:

Lord, give me strength.

B.A.Ware · 14-02-2008, 02:56 PM

You bloody well couldn't make it up.

I hope some of these I'm alright jack people will realise in one way or another these banning fanatics will affect their cosy little lives

g hall · 14-02-2008, 04:01 PM

My son suffers from a nut allergy would you want his death on your conscience ?

and we still blame the MMR jab he had

B.A.Ware · 14-02-2008, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by g hall

My son suffers from a nut allergy would you want his death on your conscience ?

and we still blame the MMR jab he had

So would the smell of peanut butter kill your son.

mkpdavies · 14-02-2008, 04:13 PM

I suggest anyone who dies from the smell of any food, needs to take major precautions themselves.

This could be.

1) Stay at home.
2) Get a gas mask.
3) Keep an eye out for people eating ANYTHING and avoid them.

Roland · 14-02-2008, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by g hall

My son suffers from a nut allergy would you want his death on your conscience ?

and we still blame the MMR jab he had

A friend of mine used to have a extraordinarily vicious allergic reaction to bananas as he found out when we were at school. Should we ban bananas?

Apparently over a thousand people a year die as an allergic reaction to aspirin should we ban this?

People have drowned in their own baths should we ban baths?

People have died slipping out of the shower should we ban showers?

Little Englander (sour) · 14-02-2008, 04:37 PM

Bananas, aspirin, baths and showers.
The Gummint hadn't thought of those until you opened your mouth.

steve fowler · 14-02-2008, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by mkpdavies

Junkfood Science: Food fears run amuck: Government outlaws aromas

Lord, give me strength.

I said this sort of stuff that labour here in Britain have done to us would start to happen in Austrailia once they elected their labour party.

TannyD · 14-02-2008, 04:49 PM

Why peanut butter? If anything smoking will do more harm that peanut butter.
Are they trying to make everyone's life a complete misery because they are too stupid to think of anyhting else to do to entertain their putrid bug-infested minds?

Roland · 14-02-2008, 04:55 PM

I hope their will be out door peanut butter shelters separate from smoking shelters it would not be fair to smokers being exposed to second hand peanut butter smell also known as environmental peanut butter.

14-02-2008, 02:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
B.A.Ware Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Birmingham Posts: 4,773 Party: UKIP	You bloody well couldn't make it up. I hope some of these I'm alright jack people will realise in one way or another these banning fanatics will affect their cosy little lives __________________ We’re not just about Europe.

14-02-2008, 04:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: erewhon Posts: 5,935	My son suffers from a nut allergy would you want his death on your conscience ? and we still blame the MMR jab he had __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." TANSTAAFL TANJ

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mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 32,059 Party: Libertarian Party	I suggest anyone who dies from the smell of any food, needs to take major precautions themselves. This could be. 1) Stay at home. 2) Get a gas mask. 3) Keep an eye out for people eating ANYTHING and avoid them. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Lib Dems

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Little Englander (sour) Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Portsmouth Posts: 949 Party: English Democrats	Bananas, aspirin, baths and showers. The Gummint hadn't thought of those until you opened your mouth. __________________ Little Englander (bigoted)

14-02-2008, 04:49 PM	#9 (permalink)
TannyD Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Cafe Rene. :D Posts: 917	Why peanut butter? If anything smoking will do more harm that peanut butter. Are they trying to make everyone's life a complete misery because they are too stupid to think of anyhting else to do to entertain their putrid bug-infested minds? __________________ Let us not forget UNIX was written in order to play _games_ in a mulitasking environment

14-02-2008, 04:55 PM	#10 (permalink)
Roland Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 859	I hope their will be out door peanut butter shelters separate from smoking shelters it would not be fair to smokers being exposed to second hand peanut butter smell also known as environmental peanut butter.

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