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Anti-Acorn Mom’s Oak Tree Claims Debunked By Nut-Allergic SUN News Reporter?

Nov. 18, 2012 9:20am

On Thursday, TheBlaze told you about a mother in Vaughan, Canada, bent on ensuring that oak trees near her kid’s school be cut down. The odd action is being requested due to the woman’s fears that fallen acorns pose a risk to children with severe nut allergies. But, in a unique news experiment conducted just a few days ago, the concerned mother’s fears may have been invalidated.

Donna Giustizia, the woman who has spawned debate, attracted widespread media attention this month, as some have questioned just how dangerous acorns — which are rarely consumed in North America — are to those who have life-threatening reactions to nuts. Despite the uncertainty and reportedly low risk, she has maintained her fears over the damage that these trees could create.

While numerous experts have weighed in of late to say that the tree nuts, themselves, likely aren’t a danger if they are merely touched, SUN News staffers decided to test the theory out for themselves. So, they sent the network’s social media reporter, Gina Phillips (who has severe nut allergies) down to a local park to pick up the acorns and test out Giustizia’s theory.

Did she react to the acorns during the experiment? Did the tree nuts prove to be the dastardly danger that Giustizia has claimed? While the reporter didn’t test the mother’s other argument — that acorns “can also be used to bully and torment children,” the allergy findings are worth checking out.

Watch the SUN News segment below to see what happened to Phillips:

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:51am

    Ahhhhhhh, NUTS!!

    Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:50am

    I appalled at the male reporters statements about mouth to mouth. That was sexual harassment and that female news reporter should tell him off camera to stop. If you suggest that again, I will file a claim. Give him a warning. Men are such cads sometimes.

    As far as the nut freak, I understand her concern, but she is going over the deep end. Unless she kills and eats a squirrel for dinner, the odds of her child having a reaction is remote. She needs to test the theory too. Take your child with epi-pen in hand and have your child pick up an acorn. Have the ambulance stand by if necessary.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 12:04pm

      Sexual harassment?… More like innocuous playful flirting amongst friends…

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    • sisserydoo
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 6:42pm

      Hilarious!!! There are creeps everywhere, you can’t file suit against them all…you’d spend all your time doing that!

      Everyone knows he’s a creep now, just leave it at that :o)

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    • hayesstephen
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 7:52pm

      I know not if this makes a difference but this is in Canada not the U.S.A.
      I think they should pass some new laws. Ban the growing of peanuts or any nut and the importation in the U.S. Out law all guns, including the police. Only one in five police can have a taser on them and only one in twenty cops may have a fire arm. Offer $1000.00 bucks to every thug to turn in their gun, Make it it illegal for lawyers to run for political office, the maximum amount of wealth in cash and assets is three million dollars per person, all cars must stop using gasoline and use only electric, in national parks people are not allowed, no hunting of any kind, sport fishing will be a felony, T.V screens can only be 19″, talk radio taken off the air, pizza parlors can only sell man made ingredients, cows to naturally die off and to go extinct, only one shower or bath per week, no pets of any kind, only gay marriages, conservatives not allowed to reproduce, elderly when sick are left to live or die on their own, any and all narcotics are legal, free medical to everyone under forty and only those who wish to work may do so, taxes are eighty percent and the twenty percent deposited into an account that you must make last two months.
      I think if we would just follow these outlines everyone would be much happier. Don’t ya think?
      ,

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    • J_Rotten
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 8:45pm

      Get over yourself… and get a sense of humor. Why the hell is everyone offended by the smallest, most benign statements?

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    • Wolf
      Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:19am

      Ah, yes- another PC moment. Let us be so concerned with being teased that we ban banter and flirting.
      Moron.

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    • mbck1491
      Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:14am

      I got a chuckle how that woman just shot that reporter down at the end of the report :-).

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    • loneindividual
      Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:17pm

      men can say w/e they want until someone asks them to stop.

      I hate it when women don’t tell men directly to shut up and they have to bring “Adults” into the situation.

      Free speech people. It doesn’t exist.

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  • HaploVoss
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:50am

    I’ll say it slowly… H O M E … S C H O O L … Y O U R … K I D
    If you’re really that terrified about acorns. They are everywhere – not just a schoolyard. Doh!

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  • justangry
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:49am

    Um if touching an acorn will make someone get sick and die, I’d chalk that up to natural selection and move on.

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:39am

    Still say she comes into MY yard with a saw she will very quickly develop an allergy to saws!

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  • kindling
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:35am

    I have special needs kids too and I would never ask the world to adjust to their needs, I strive to get them to deal with the world. If they had an allergy I would teach them to stay away from the problems. Life is dangerous for all of us. I know a teen with CF and they kept going on about dieing even though they are very healthy and I told them there are more dangerous things than CF so they might as well just enjoy what they have which is life. Their sibling died of drug abuse…not the CF they both had.

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  • Disgusted_in_CT
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:16am

    Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.

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  • LukeAppling
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:16am

    The woman’s theory on acorns is much like AL Gore’s theory on climate control….a bunch of bunk.
    The only difference Big Al has money to promote his lie.

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  • blazingaway
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:01am

    If someone is allergic to acorns and too damn stupid to stay away from them then let them die. They’re too damn stupid to face any challenge or issue in life and need to die as we all will … their time is just a little sooner than others.

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    • UBKidding
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:13am

      That is an extreme, idiotic statement.

      Firstly, the social media person that was used as guinea pig, has a peanut allergy. More people die from this disease than those who die from AIDS. A person with a tree nut allergy, could have a reaction from these acorns. Further, it isn’t some adult that will allow exposure, but a child. Some 150 children every year, under the age of 9 die. An Epi-pen gives the person 15 minutes to get to a hospital and there is no guarantee they will survive.

      Ignorance of this disease is astoundingly amazing. Am I agreeing that these trees be cut down? No. But people like you need to educate yourself as 50% of all children in the US are born with this and it links it way back to GMO foods.

      Maybe a read through this will expose you to the tragedy of children dying from this disease.

      http://www.foodallergyangel.com/

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    • liberum1776
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:38am

      Unfortunately the numbers you present do not seem to work. HIV claimed (2009) ~ 17,000 people in the United States. According to a wiki article ~10 people die each year BUT according the the Peanut Board (Biased?) ~150 people die each year. I doubt the Wiki article (After all it is a Wiki article) but even if the Peanut Board number is 100 times less than actual deaths the number would be 15,000 which is less than die each year from HIV. I would argue you might have mistakenly looked at the number of estimated new cases of peanut allergy reported each year which was about 35,000 (Thought I seriously doubt that number). The other points presented by the original author I don’t argue against except to state that hundreds of children should not suffer for the concerns (real or imagined) of children who have allergies.

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    • chips1
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:52am

      Obama’s muslim nuts have killed many more. I guess the MSM doesn’t much care.

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    • DougHuffman
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 12:01pm

      Darwin works in mysterious ways. Frustrate nature if you will, nature will out.

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    • Margyt
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 1:02pm

      Peanuts don’t grow on trees. There is no comparison. That would be like being allergic to strawberries and rubbing a tomato on your skin. Same goes for the woman who wants the trees cut down. What is the real danger from the trees? I doubt if the school bans all nuts (pun sort of intended). it seems that inadvertent exposure to tree nuts inside the school is more risk. How many kids have died there? Someone has too much time on her hands.

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    • BlasberryStrat
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 2:35pm

      Back up “ubkidding”, the statement was obviously said in jest, so un-curl your panties! And DON’T go trying to force your kid on us like this is a “disease”. It is NOT a “disease”, it is officially classified as an “ALERGY”. The reason you and other young entitlement parents blare out “disease, disease” is because then you can rake in free Obama money because your kid can’t eat a peanut. YOU WANT TO KNOW A DISEASE? I got full blown Ulcerative Colitis when I was 17! It destroyed my so called best years and took college totally off the table. No one in my family screamed “Government money” when I got sick (just bought a WHOLE lot of toilet paper…). But I guess NOW I should file and demand my house be paid by Obama because I’ve got that rare known “disease” called “HAY FEVER”. Oh, you should see when I get a sneezing attack. It’s so horrible and I know it’s the neighbors fault with cutting their grass knowing dang well I’ve got this terrible “disease”. WHERE’S MY OBAMA MONEY (achoo)!!
      Get off your high horse and take responsibility for your kid. And a quote from Eddie Murphy, “Have a Coke and a smile…and shut the f–k up!”.

      (Got some letters left, so you wanna hear my “Gabby” imitation? “Oobla – oobla – oobla – oobla…”. How’s that?

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on November 19, 2012 at 1:39pm

      I am a product of the 1950′s and 1960′s. I never heard of a peanut allergy until the airlines stopped serving them in favor of the cheaper pretzels. My senior year in college I practically survived on PB&J.

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  • castious
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 10:56am

    I belive she is squirrely

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:39am

      @BLASBERRYSTRAT You are just way too funny. I’m chuckling at your last few lines.

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  • RodT82721
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 10:52am

    This is what happens when someone’s feelings are taken to seriously.
    Instead of isolating the nut, many would agree to cut down your trees.
    Of course the worried, don’t have any trees to harm them or to cut down, but you should cut down yours so they can feel better.

    The new culture.

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  • Eastinfection
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 10:46am

    you bet, SLAYER… gotta love “Blaxploitation” comedy!

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 10:36am

    lol goin old school eh?

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  • Marcia
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 10:06am

    What a loon. Reminds me of the nut case mother in Northern Va that made her kid wear a helmut to school during the VA/DC shooter rampage. The world is full of stupid ignorant people and for some reason, they get all the press.

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    • Whatsizface
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 10:51am

      The only nut that should be bannned is this mother. Ask any Torontonian what they think of Vaughan Italo-hoverparents. Their kids run wild on Friday and Saturdays, but they’re ‘good kids’; just ask Nonna.

      You should see what the parents are like at minor soccer and hockey games; complete nut-jobs.

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  • Polarized America
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:57am

    yeah, shes a nut, but a concerned nut, she has two kids & is the head of the school’s allergy committee, so i’m giving her a pass.
    Besides, they didn’t test her “”crushed nut”" ( ouch ) theory

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  • skippy6
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:44am

    Don’t want to be a Canadian idiot……

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  • soybomb315_II
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:44am

    acorns were a staple of the native american diet….May be part of your future survival as well

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  • greeneyes1982
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:43am

    Their “test” proves nothing. A peanut allergy is not the same as a tree nut allergy. People who are allergic to peanuts can eat tree nuts and people who are allergic to tree nuts can eat peanuts.

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:54am

      Isn’t the issue that the mom, thinks her peanut allergic son, will be allergic to acorns too?

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    • chips1
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 12:06pm

      The mother should feed her kid Soylent Green. Here in America we feed them Soylent Pink. Same liberal crap.

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  • drichard
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:43am

    This is incredibly misleading. A “peanut” allergy is not the same as a “tree nut” allergy. If the girl in this video is truly allergic to peanuts, then she should NOT have had a reaction to the acorn, as acorns are “tree nuts.” Peanuts are actually legumes and not a “tree nut.”

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  • lapua338shooter
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:42am

    I say we should also ban stoopid people…..

    Oh,… wait…. We’d have to ban 1/2 the country & a few Canadians, too.

    In my little ‘ol town here in Florida, I personally know of 30 to 40 people that would make the ban list.

    Just thinking out loud. Or maybe wishing out loud.

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    • saranda
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 8:03pm

      By my experience your standard would eliminate 99% of Florida, as well as much of Arizona and Texas.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:37am

    And from a related story, kind of…. lol.

    “…Harper then put the German officers in a jeep and took them back to where the German enlisted men were detained. He then said to the German captain, ‘If you don’t know what [Nuts] means, in plain English it is the same as ‘Go to Hell’. And I’ll tell you something else, if you continue to attack we will kill every G**dam German that tries to break into this city.’

    The German major and captain saluted very stiffly. The captain said, ‘We will kill many Americans. This is war.’ Harper then responded, ‘On your way Bud,’ he then said, ‘and good luck to you.’ Harper later told me he always regretted wishing them good luck.”

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    • BernieKittyCat
      Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:07am

      I love the scene in Battleground where they reenact the “Nuts!” reply to the Nazis. “Nusse? Ist das Negativ oder Positiv?”

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  • OLDPAINT
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:37am

    …speaking of nuts…

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:35am

    Debate isn’t the only thing she spawned, Billy. She has a kid. God help us. They say insanity is hereditary. Pray for that child.

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  • ZAP
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:34am

    Cars should be banded.While crossing the street one could hit and kill you.

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    • rudderfish
      Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:36pm

      Cars? Why stop there? The sun gives ya skin cancer! We should ban the sun! (sarcasm)

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  • grimmster
    Posted on November 18, 2012 at 9:31am

    Cant believe i clicked not only on the article, but the video as well, got to go bang my head against a wall.i’ll be back later,if i survive…..

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