Comment by wardedVibe
4 years ago
No, there's so much secret sesame that you don't know is there that even with the range of hypothetical options lessened, there are more foods you know are safe now. My partner, who has a sesame allergy, had basically sworn off preprepared food because there's no way to tell. At least now she knows what's safe.
Mandating a "may contain traces of sesame" would provide just as much protection without requiring adding the sesame and denying it to those of us that aren't going to be killed by a bit of cross contamination.
Without quantifying and controlling the amount of sesame, that's not useful information.
That's why these foods added the sesame--now it's measured, quantified, and controlled.
Someone with a mild allergy can try the food and see what the reaction is. If it's fine, then that food can be eaten knowing that the sesame level likely will be consistent.
People with severe allergies will avoid that food like always.
This is a good thing and the complaints make me facepalm. "Gee, now we can experiment and know what this food will do to us as opposed to playing Russian roulette every time. This upsets us and we're going to complain."
Oh, gee, what you really wanted was everybody to surgically clean their manufacturing lines but not pay them any extra money for doing so? So sorry, that's not how this works.
And that's what everyone with an allergy should do - take their destiny in their own hands and stop relying on labels and on nanny state. Buy unprocessed food, bake your own bread, it's not that hard.
fuck off dude, we literally do that. It's exhausting. Is it really such an imposition to have labels?
I'm a diabetic. 90% of supermarket food is dangerous for me. There are no labels on apples telling me they have sugar. It's on me to count calories and carbo in my food.
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