Animals & Nature0 min ago
current state of the UK
Is it me or is does the UK seem to be getting to the stage where anything which might ''offend'' somebody is going to be banned or changed :-(
ban fireworks...ban Xmas lights...No BC dates...Ban loud music...stop smoking...ban fox hunting etc... etc... etc... ad infinitum.
I suppose part of the problem is that people in the UK (and other developed countries) seem to be out of touch with the real world where by numbers alone most of the other people exist, things such as poverty, hunger, no jobs, lack of resources, wars etc.. keep people busy surviving, but the developed world obviously has very few of those things happening and so it seems that many people in th UK have nothing to do except sit around thinking of things which might annoy them and then they make an effort to stop other people doing it.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.re allergies now aswell, say 50-60 years ago, if a child had an anaphalactic reaction to a nut (which weren't typically in your everyday diet post war time), he or she would have died, and perhaps parents would never have really known why/what of.
These days, alot of the rise in allergies is due to raised awareness. Children years ago would be labelled "failure to thrive" or "sickly", now it is found out what is making them so and the problem is cured.
I don't disagree with you though, the things we do to our food re chemicals and over farming, and poor animal feeds etc etc, probably don't help. All allergies are are an immunity disorder, so years ago when people were generally healthier, ate less additives, ate square meals, did more excercise, didn't live in heated homes etc etc, I suspect people were in some ways healthier generally. These days we are more sensitive.
However, you can't be allergic to something you have never had, you have to have something once in order for your immune system to reject it the next time. Therefore avoiding peanuts till you are 2 is not going to necessarily reduce your chances of reacting anaphalactically to them. It will just delay it. The merit in delaying it is that a 2 year old perhaps has a better chance than a 10 month old of recovering
I don't' think the grass is greener either, as I also remember that in the olden days, instead of allergy they had, diptheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, mumps, scarlet fever, T.B, all of which still exist, but in lesser degrees....I like the age I live in now.