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It's not always only ingested food that is a safety issue. Some people have allergies that are severe enough that physical contact is enough to cause anaphylaxis. For example, there was a kid with a dairy allergy who died when other kids put a piece of cheese down his shirt[1]

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/02/boy-with-all...

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If someone can't tolerate anyone else on a flight eating anything, they probably shouldn't fly.

Why not? If the airline has a policy that allows them to fly, why wouldn't they? It's not the people with allergies asking the flight not to serve other people peanuts, it's the airline itself deciding to do that.

Besides if someone has a contact allergy to nuts, I can't think of a place more likely for it to happen than a plane. One patch of turbulence, and your seat neighbor's peanuts go all over you.

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