{"id":538,"date":"2009-02-20T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T14:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=538"},"modified":"2009-02-20T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T14:47:15","slug":"dont-be-afraid-of-peanut-butter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/02\/20\/dont-be-afraid-of-peanut-butter\/","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t be afraid of peanut butter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Juiciness on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8919264@N04\/3081401927\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3032\/3081401927_5cb3e7c483_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"triple decker PBJ\" \/><\/a>With the recent panic about the salmonella\u00a0poisonings\u00a0resulting from tainted peanut butter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarpress.com\/article\/20090220\/LIFESTYLE\/902200321\">The Star Press<\/a> (Central Indiana) ran a story about moms who struggle with deciding whether or not to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for their children &#8212; once a household staple for meals and snacks.<\/p>\n<p>Who better to quell this fear than a sociologist?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s reasonable for parents to react strongly to the initial news of the recalls, said Barry Glassner, a sociology professor at the\u00a0University\u00a0of Southern California, but unnecessarily avoiding peanut butter in the long run could teach children to be afraid of food.<\/p>\n<p>Many more\u00a0children\u00a0will die from being hit by lightning than tainted peanut butter, said Glassner, author of<em>\u00a0The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food is Wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you going to prohibit your\u00a0child\u00a0from going outside every time it rains?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;If you&#8217;re rational, what you&#8217;ll do is, if there&#8217;s lightning outside, you&#8217;ll keep them in, and when that&#8217;s done, you let them go out safely and go to school in the rain. I think this is the same thing. It&#8217;s very reasonable to take peanut butter off the menu until we knew what was going on, but then it&#8217;s not anymore.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarpress.com\/article\/20090220\/LIFESTYLE\/902200321\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent panic about the salmonella\u00a0poisonings\u00a0resulting from tainted peanut butter, The Star Press (Central Indiana) ran a story about moms who struggle with deciding whether or not to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for their children &#8212; once a household staple for meals and snacks. Who better to quell this fear than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39112,30],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-culture","tag-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}