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I have read Linda Goldkrantz posting regarding lawsuit involving gluten
free surcharges.
I also feel the lawsuit is very damaging to us celiac patients.  I am very
grateful that some restaurants take the time and expense for training and
furnish gluten free items to celiac patients.  Restaurants typically are
not a get rich quick scheme or scam, and I am willing to pay the couple
extra dollars just to be able to eat when I am traveling.

 I'm not a rich person, I am retired and live on a really small pension,
and I do feel that all of my foods are very expensive, even the foods I buy
to cook at home., but restaurants are not the problem.  The problem lies in
american politics.   If our foods were safely handled in the first place
and not controlled by politicians and their political lobbyists who pay the
FDA and USDA to keep approving and selling unhealthy products we might be
somewhat better off.
Many other countries reimburse celiac patients or provide a stipend for the
added cost of their gluten free foods.  It is considered a medical need as
it should be.  The problem is not ignored  as in America because everything
involving food and health is run by Pharmaceutical and chemical industries
and their fatcat lobbyists.  Mary in Michigan

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