peanut allergies
people are pretty stupid sometimes. number one, you can't send your kid to school with a peanut butter sandwich for lunch because he might share it with another kid that might have an undiscovered fatal allergic reaction. number two, there are two proteins in peanuts that account for most of the allergic reactions. it's pretty easy to genetically modify peanuts so they don't kill people. but some idiots are so afraid of anything to do with this technique that it can't be done. number three, botanists have found one variety of peanuts that is missing one of the troublesome proteins. they are searching the other remaining 14,000 or so known peanut varieties for one missing the other protein. when they do we're going to end up with a peanut that doesn't kill people. exactly the same as what we could have been eating years ago through genetics. until they succeed, 1 or 2 people are going to die every week from accidental peanut exposure. that's gonna be one hell of a class action lawsuit. be sure to name the anti-gm dorks.