In the exceedingly unlikely event that anyone here is actually interested in what really is going on with GMO development, and WHY some think it's a good idea, a reasonably rational article appeared in the latest issue of Technology Review:

Why We Will Need GMO Plants

Technology Review Jan-Feb 2014

The article is too long to post (10 pages - US letter size - when pasted in Word, with extraneous decorations removed) but is worth reading if you can do the necessary thinking while you read. The web version appears in 5 fairly short parts for easier browsing (although I found the paper version, which might be on your newsstands, easier to read and digest).

It appears that some of what was in the print version of the magazine (a couple of charts?) may have been omitted in the web version, although I haven't made a side-by-side comparison as yet; but the important points are there in both.

This is not a subject to be ignored, but brainless debate without a few facts, and opinions from all sides, accomplishes nothing very productive.

John