Just thought I would share a somewhat different perspective on GMOs. This actually comes from some reading I was doing on economics, specifically about central planning, or central bankers. It comes from Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek and Charles Goodhart. Smith basically said that "no central planner can direct a system of arrayed components that are also systems with unique properties beyond the planner's purview". Hayek argues that the information needed to construct, or direct, an economic order would be "created at the level of individual autonomous actors within a complex system and that this information could never be available in its totality" Goodhart concluded that central planning is not only undesirable, but impossible, because "any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes".
Basically, to sum up what these three guys are saying ... economic systems are incredibly complex, beyond our purview in their feedback effects, whose state in its totality is beyond our knowledge .... and, we shouldn't be fu#king around with them and trying to manipulate these systems to our advantage, because it can only end badly.
I contend that this is a problem not solely limited to economics and central bankers. Western culture was told over 2000 years ago that we have dominion over nature. It's ingrained within our psyche from our cultural upbringing. We like to meddle. Well, nature is another incredibly complex system, more so than any economic system. Meddling in it without understanding the consequences of our meddling, without having all the information of the system within our purview, without understanding all the feedback paths, could have disastrous consequences (much worse than economic collapse!)
It's the same thing in economics (stop manipulating the markets, go back to free markets, get rid of central planning), medicine (assist the body in healing itself, i.e. strive for a holistic approach), food (get rid of GMOs), climate (try and understand what our impact is), you name it. These are all complex systems and we should strive to live in harmony with their natural state of equilibrium. Complex systems like to be in equilibrium. The further we manipulate them away from some natural equilibrium, the more likely they are to crash back to a new equilibrium state and maybe one we won't like the looks of when we end up there.