never heard of food allergies?

Absolutely. But GM foods aren't going to do anything to help that...

Oh, before you go on about allergen-free peanuts, perhaps you can
indicate what will happen when a shipment of 99.99% of allergen-free
peanuts get "contaminated" with 0.01% allergic peanuts... Well, you
either discard the whole lot, or you end up with ill/dead people...

Of the people I know with peanut allergy, none would trust a
"non-allergenic" variety...

regards
Marcus