damn there's so much negativity towards it, for as far as I can tell, almost no reason.
Yeah, there's a commonly held idea that GM food is just a tool for agri-business to profit from at the expense of public health, which just isn't true. In the bill mentioned a UK green MEP from the south east spoke and implied quite heavily that the only anyone wants to introduce GM crops is to profit from it. That's the level of argument I expect from hippies on the internet, to see it entering politics is depressing.
The yield thing is indeed true, but that's also due to improved agri-chemicals and more productive farming techniques, which may not be sustainable.
Apparently blight is not just a thing from Warcraft 3 and kills loads of potatoes #JeSuisPotato.
Yeah, Irish potato famine. That was a super-virulent version but it's a pretty powerful disease anyway