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Originally Posted by pjb1967
I might be wrong but I think this is more of an american problem, I mean have you ever heard of anyone in a 3rd world country having a peanut allergy or being lactose intolerant or any of the other weird food issues we here in America have developed over the years?
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Not to be too blunt about it, but you're not hearing about it in third world countries because 1) we don't hear about much of anything going on in third world countries, 2) it's likely that few people there are living with severe peanut allergies because they're dying from anaphylaxis the first time they're exposed, and 3) nobody is reporting stats on the number of people living with peanut allergies in the third world.
That's probably also why it's uncommon in parts of the world where peanuts are heavily used (China, for example). A century ago (and any time before then), it's likely that few people survived with a peanut allergy in a culture that ate so many peanuts. If they didn't live to have children, within a few generations that allergy would be almost unheard of in that peanut eating population.