Three-year-old dies after being fed something to which he was severely allergic.
My guess: The daycare center knew that he was allergic to dairy products, but it didn't occur to them that cheese was a dairy product.
In my opinion, the problem is that many of us in the so-called "developed countries" are so divorced from agriculture that we quite literally don't know what our food is made of. By way of illustration, I was once served, from a restaurant's official
gluten-free menu, a plate of gluten-free pasta topped with bread crumbs. Somehow, the fact that bread crumbs are just as gluten-containing as wheat-based pasta didn't occur to anyone in the kitchen. Then there's the friend of ours who's severely allergic to gluten who was served gluten-based cereal
in a hospital. Even the hospital's
dietitian didn't get it. That reminds me of the old joke about city-raised kids thinking that milk comes from a carton, rather than from a cow. Somehow, that joke isn't so funny at the moment.
My heart goes out to this poor family. They lost their child because of ignorance.