Thursday, July 17. 2008
Have your say - do you think food allergies should be banned from the Army?
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I absolutely agree, I'm sure some will yell that it's unfair but it's absolutely practical. To be honest I'm surprised that food allergy sufferers would want to put themselves at such risk.
I disagree. Not every role in the military is a direct combat role on the front lines, where the problem in question could arise. Why should one be excluded from the Navy or Air Force, where time would be spent largely on ship or base, where there is a variety of food? Also, would they rather accept a less qualified candidate than one who is more qualified, but has an allergy? I think that they will have to address this as more and more people get allergies.
I have a wheat allergy, i am serving developed while in service. All i do is have different food no big deal rations pack is just different like a vegetarians or hallal, what is ther real difference?
No one should be banned from anything just because of allergies. That is just ridiculous and not exactly democratic. I think that those who have allergies need to be responsible enough to make the right choices and ensure that they will have appropriate food and/or an epipen if necessary. If the army doesn't have the resources available to ensure one's safety, then maybe it's not the best choice.
I disagree completely. You have to understand the fact that the human race's immune system is evolving in a negative way. Soon there will only be a few people without allergies in general. Would you have our armies use only those few people? You should also realize that some of those few people would not want to join the military. Would you force them? No. Not letting people with food allergies join the Army is not a very beneficial choice. I would assume that the countries our armies would be fighting against would not ban people with allergies. Not letting these types of people join our army would be setting us all up for failure.
I hate to break this to you all, but the US Navy and the Coast Guard ban all latex allergy sufferers from their ranks already. I'm sure that they also have restrictions based on food allergies.
You have developed a steriotypical attitude that makes you think all allergy sufferers have life threatening symptoms - and your wrong. Many people can quite simply have "allergy sensitivitys" that have probably only ever experineced symptoms to a low degree, once or twice in their lifetime. If the army is able to make food exceptions for thoose of religious groups, then allergy sufferes shuld also demand their right to "equality". An automatic allergy ban in the army is wrong. Conclusions should be made by how serve the allergy or infact sensitivity is. Who are you to say that someone with an allergy are less able than someone else? No one is perfect therefore an allergy does not prevent an individual from the right to equality in society.
I'm ex UK serviceman. Joined up with declared allergy to Bee stings and Penicillin. My medical records had alerts on them and I never had any problems. If I got shot the medics would have given me penicillin as infection was harderd to treat than the reaction to the drugs.
Howabout all those guys suffering from the drug cocktails we got given to go to Gulf war 1, did they get kicked out once they started to suffer reactions.
The issue here is not the allergy but how severe the reaction is and could it cause a debilitating effect on the sufferer whilst on active service.
Howabout all those guys suffering from the drug cocktails we got given to go to Gulf war 1, did they get kicked out once they started to suffer reactions.
The issue here is not the allergy but how severe the reaction is and could it cause a debilitating effect on the sufferer whilst on active service.
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