The problem with GMO is that you end up with varieties that don’t naturally come into balance with people and the environment, especially since the reality is t

The problem with GMO is that you end up with varieties that don’t naturally come into balance with people and the environment, especially since the reality is that GMO implies large scale industrial farming with crop monocultures. People don’t want to experiment with their lives and discover decades later that some obscure ingredient in a pesticide has some long term effect. Nor do they want to have issues like water tables dropping and aquifers getting depleted because the high yield crops are not sustainable with a region’s water cycle. Cooks are worried about losing the diversity of crops that support their culinary diversity. Farmers are worried about getting bullied and economically enslaved by seed manufacturers. These are all risks - and your evaluation or perception or appetite for risks may be different - but I don’t think it’s illogical for people to be wary of GMO or want to take it slow, especially when operating in a world where humans regularly get things wrong and where human processes (like government approvals) can be corrupted.