Make the Sprint Center stop selling peanut/nut products


Make the Sprint Center stop selling peanut/nut products
The Issue
The Sprint Center (Kansas City, MO) sells peanut products (including roasted nuts) within their enclosed facility. Many people suffer from life-threatening allergies to nuts/peanuts that can literally cost them their lives simply by being exposed to the smell. My mother is one of those people. She is anaphylactic to nuts/peanuts. Over the years, it has become so bad that simply smelling them causes her throat to start closing up. And this smell carries through the arena. People throw the shells everywhere. People are often unkind when asked not to eat them near my mother. I have been reaching out to the Sprint Center for YEARS, expressing my concerns. They have ignored me each time and have actually added more nut products that make it difficult for my mother to attend events with our family if they occur at the Sprint Center. Please help me get the Sprint Center's attention. Their sale of peanuts is a violation of the American's with Disabilities Act as an allergy is defined as a disability and the Sprint Center makes it difficult for people with life-threatening peanut allergies to attend their events. While you could argue that my mother does not need to attend events at the Sprint Center, it is still wrong to limit customers based on disabilities. Why should she not get to enjoy the same things I do simply because she has an allergy? Please help me change this so my mom can go with me to Sprint Center events again.

The Issue
The Sprint Center (Kansas City, MO) sells peanut products (including roasted nuts) within their enclosed facility. Many people suffer from life-threatening allergies to nuts/peanuts that can literally cost them their lives simply by being exposed to the smell. My mother is one of those people. She is anaphylactic to nuts/peanuts. Over the years, it has become so bad that simply smelling them causes her throat to start closing up. And this smell carries through the arena. People throw the shells everywhere. People are often unkind when asked not to eat them near my mother. I have been reaching out to the Sprint Center for YEARS, expressing my concerns. They have ignored me each time and have actually added more nut products that make it difficult for my mother to attend events with our family if they occur at the Sprint Center. Please help me get the Sprint Center's attention. Their sale of peanuts is a violation of the American's with Disabilities Act as an allergy is defined as a disability and the Sprint Center makes it difficult for people with life-threatening peanut allergies to attend their events. While you could argue that my mother does not need to attend events at the Sprint Center, it is still wrong to limit customers based on disabilities. Why should she not get to enjoy the same things I do simply because she has an allergy? Please help me change this so my mom can go with me to Sprint Center events again.

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Petition created on March 30, 2019