[AlanG]

Well most of the research isn't being carried out on food plants its on commercial plants such as cotton, so you can see how "helping humanity" this effort is.

That being said, research should be carried out, but in isolation where contamination of native plants cant take place. What annoys me is the focus people put on "its playing God!!!11222 changing teh one plant!111" when its really gonna affect all the food chain.

Example with Golden Rice. *totally hypothetical* imagine theres some parasite such as locust that feeds on rice, Golden Rice has greater yield, healthier food for locust, locusts then not only become larger etc but have more/healthier offspring next generation leading to huge numbers of these parasites.

Changing one gene doesnt only affect that one species.