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Kalina Gibson

Pd 4
IN MCPS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, SEPTEMBER 21, 2015.
The unanimous Declaration of the Celiacs of Montgomery County,
When in the course of course of cafeteria extravaganzas, it becomes necessary for the
oppressed Celiacs to be given gluten-free friendly options in the cafeteria, and to not have
to bring lunch from home everyday for their whole lives, and to assume among the
freedoms of a food-eater, the separate and equal station (Montesquieu) to which the
Natural Laws of Ailment Consuming entitles them (Hobbes), a decent recognition to the
needs of all Celiacs to eat food and the acceptance of gluten-free food in cafeterias.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all food-eaters are created equal, that they are
endowed by the school cafeteria food providers with certain unalienable Rights (Locke),
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Eating School-Provided Food.-That to secure these rights, gluten-free food must be instituted and accepted among
MCPS cafeterias. --That whenever any Form of Cafeteria Treatment becomes destructive
and exclusive to Celiacs, it is the duty and Right of the Celiac Students to add gluten-free
food and change it to be a more inclusive menu, and to institute a new policy within his
or her school district declaring all cafeterias must obey the aforementioned Natural
Rights (Locke) of the Pursuit of Eating School-Provided Food. Prudence, indeed
(Rousseau), will dictate that cafeterias long established should not be changed for light or
transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that Celiacs are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of exclusions and isolations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evince a design to reduce Celiacs under Despotism,

Kalina Gibson
Pd 4
it is their right, it is their duty (Hobbes), to stand up against the oppressive cafeterias and
provide new menus for their future security and happiness.Such has been the patient
sufferance of these Celiacs; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to fight
back against the oppression from exclusive cafeterias. The history of cafeterias with no
gluten-free food is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct
object of an absolute Tyranny over these Celiacs. To prove this, let the Facts be submitted
to a candid world.
Cafeterias, thought to serve everyone, refuse to serve those with Celiac Disease and
gluten-intolerance.
Students with Celiac must bring food from everyday if they wish to eat.
On birthdays or holidays Celiacs suffer through watching Non-Celiacs stuff their faces
with birthday cake, gravy, pizza, pasta, and foods of that variety.
When asking the lunch ladies if theres anything gluten-free, Celiacs only get the irritable
response next in line! and are shouted at students behind them in line.
Celiacs are discriminated from the general student population and excluded from foodrelated activities because of a genetic disease they cant fix.
The idea of people eating gluten-free has brought distaste to students peers and teachers
alike.
The cafeteria has combined with others like it to subject us Celiacs to a jurisdiction
foreign to what we know, and unacknowledged by our beliefs; giving their asset to their
acts of pretended acts (Montesquieu).

Kalina Gibson
Pd 4
Celiacs are shunned and embarrassed because of the oppression from Non-Celiac peers
and dont feel like they can express who they are as individuals and Individual Rights are
unalienable in America (Locke).
Celiacs and their families are forced to spend more money than Non-Celiac families
because they dont have a meal plan.
In every stage of these Oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble
terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. We, therefore
must, because of these Oppressions, as the Association of Angry Celiacs in Montgomery
County, are appealing to the MCPS school district for the rectitude of our intentions, do,
in the Name, and Authority of the good, honest Celiacs of Montgomery County, solemnly
publish and declare, that these Celiacs are, and of right ought to be free from the
oppression, isolation, exclusion, and non-acceptance that the cafeterias have so imposed
on us and be served gluten-free food (Locke). And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of our health and food, we mutually pledge to each
other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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