I fucking hate how much governments here in the "third world" buy into that sort of "organic" woo. The Philippine courts exploded a GMO pest resistant rice project a fucking decade in the making and I'm so god damn mad about it
I hate that the ideological pushback against GMOs moved away from stuff like control of seed flow and risk of crop decimation from monocultures and onto that, for lack of a better word, unscientific/ahistoric notion of "frankenfood", though I can surmise reasons why this happened
(In particular my main suspicion is that any corporation of the size and importance of these agribusinesses uses part of their massive wealth to establish controlled opposition, in order to make their critics sound less rational. related: how mcdonald's tried to shape the wider media narrative around the coffee temperature lawsuit and the longstanding popular interpretation of the Luddites. In this case it shifts the argument from how these tools are used in our economy -- should it be legal to patent food given its importance to society -- to an argument about the tools existing in the first place. Obviously I have no direct evidence of this claim, and won't put you on about this, but means and motive, at least, are both pretty straightforward to establish here.)
