You are right on both accounts. In general, there's a lot of distortion concerning this issue as any google search mentioning Monsanto inevitably turns up a lot

You are right on both accounts. In general, there's a lot of distortion concerning this issue as any google search mentioning Monsanto inevitably turns up a lot of natural food blogs parading as authoritative sources. We're going to need this type of technology if we are truly going to become an interplanetary species and endure the negative consequences of climate change. I just have a marked distrust of any organization that employs regulatory capture as evident as Monsanto. The point about food labeling still stands though. It's true that a little information in the hands of the ignorant can be dangerous, but that is the cost of living in a free and democratic society and individual choice. Putting corporate interests over the freedom of information rarely, if ever, works out well. Monsanto has the resources and the former politicians to do effective public outreach and education. That they would rather use legislation makes them seem, at best, not worthy of trust.