GM science is benevolent (much like splitting the atom). It's the way in which man is using it that is so objectionable.

To suggest that the technology would ever be used to eliminate world hunger is just plain naive. GM corps may develop seed that can grow in the most extreme of environments. They also take out the reproduction elements. Meaning that instead of a farmer having something that he can begin to cultivate poor land with, he has a crop that he must make enough money from to buy more seed the next year. Those that need it the most will not be able to afford it.

The hostility to GM crops on these shores is for many reasons. Once they are grown here and begin to cross fertilise existing plants there is no going back.

Remember that feeding cattle minced up other cattle's spinal chords seemed like an easy way to a cheap and bountiful supply of food at one point.