CAN WE BE TOTALLY GLUTEN AND CASEIN FREE?

When people talk about being gluten and casein free, they often will follow this by saying that they are doing a modified form of the diet. As mentioned in another post, there is no such thing. And it is not just a diet.  Gluten is found in just about every adhesive, thickener, and preserved product there is.  Casein is even more wide-spread - virtually every paint, plastic and emulsion relies on the dairy protein.  If indeed these two elements are around us in every shape and form, how is it possible to consider ourselves totally gluten and casein free? Well at this point in the 21st century, it is pretty impossible to say that we are really free of anything. How can you prevent cross-contamination of GM crops with non GM ones, for example?  The wind carrries seed to anywhere it wants to go in microscopic amounts. Human beings cannot prevent that.  Similarly, we cannot prevent our children from living with gluten and casein in their world and possibly in their immediate environment. What we can control is what they eat and what they touch.  There is a vast chasm between what our children experience in the world around them and what they experience directly.
There is no modification or compromise that can make the gfcf diet successful except sticking to the rules of no gluten, no casein.  So you cannot possibly take out regular bread but allow a take-out pizza once in a while.  Or ban dairy from the house, but let an ice-cream trip happen for a special treat. To this extent, we can control and regulate the amount of gluten or casein our children are exposed to.  It may not matter for a gluten-casein sensitive child to be around other children that are playing with stickers, but it may be what makes the difference for that child not to put a sticker on their own skin.  For many, this is enough to make a huge difference to the degree of stimming, lack of focus, sense of drunkeness and ability to converse and be engaged that parents and children alike are looking for.