Peanut Butter Saved my Life

     Peanut butter sandwiches were my main food source while growing up as a youngster.  As a kid I was picky eater so peanut butter was my fallback nutrition food without peanut butter it's unlikely that I would have survived.  Peanuts have a lot of fat but they also have a lot of protein which everyone needs especially kids.  I thank the Lord that I was born many years ago when peanut butter was considered a healthy food as opposed to today where it's apparently equivalent to cocaine.


     Nowadays there appears to be a war on any foods containing peanuts.  I know that a peanut allergy can be deadly for anyone that has this allergy and because of that we seem to be treating peanuts like a deadly drug.  Many schools do not permit children to bring any peanut based products to schools, it's probably easier to buy drugs at some schools that finding a peanut butter sandwich on the school premises.  I can almost imagine a kid in the school yard quietly asking another "Hey, where can I get a dime bag of PBJ, keep it on the down low."


     I get protecting your children, I have children (now grown) but when you reach the age of reason you should know not to eat peanut butter if you have an allergy.  Instead we choose to restrict all children from eating peanut products at school because of a few kids that have an allergy.  It seems to me it would be better to teach your kids (if allergic) why they shouldn't eat peanuts rather than ban it from all school kids.  You don't want to be the parent that one day finds out that your kid was meeting a drug dealer in some dark alley of an unsavory neighborhood buying a jar of Jif peanut butter even worse Jif Crunchy, that could be devastating.

     There is a program called D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), which is designed to warn kids about drugs and their addiction but if you look at the list of drugs you will not find peanuts on the list.  Some states are legalizing marijuana and many people seem to be OK with that but don't you D.A.R.E. breathe on me if you ate peanut butter.  What is this world coming too, all I can say if society ever tries to ban bacon you're in for a fight my friend.  "Just Saying…"