I'm rather proud of the fact that the last time I was published in a magazine it was Mother Earth News, wherein they published my letter asking them if they could, for the sake of simplicity, link to somewhere that actually talked about the harms of GMO, rather than just assuming it was bad, bad bad. Their response was "everyone knows the risks from GMO." I wish the issue were that simple, however. What it really comes down to is there is very, very little oversight of GMO design and implementation and those who would like there to be more of it don't have the basis in understanding to know what to ask for. So they push for bans and labeling instead. If GMO crops were subject to the same scrutiny as pharmaceutical drugs, there'd be a lot less of them, they'd be a lot more expensive and bad things would still get through. However, it'd be a lot less like lawn darts, wherein you have to put a few through people's heads before you decide that terminator genes are a bad idea.