Yes, that was rather flippant. My point is that, for any given organism, whether it is modified or not gives us no information about whether it is good or bad. GM food is no more likely to be “bad” than non-GM food.

Yet many places, including St John’s College, have a blanket policy of using no GM food. We should campaign against this stupid policy. Indeed, I’d quite like to campaign to use only GM food just to annoy stupid people.

Response for 2. Though there is a lot of hype against GM food there is a learned basis for it.
a. There have been occasions where GM corn have been found to be more allergenic than its natural counterparts to a large extent.
b. Simply because all organisms have genomes, does not make monkey and donkey the same. The differences in the genome manifest as different proteins, outcomes, etc., being transcribed from the DNA leading to different organisms. Similarly, GM crops produce modified proteins which effect may not be known, unlike their natural counterparts which have been used by humans for centuries and hence well understood.
This is akin to new drug being tested before found safe. Unfortunately, GM crops are not a single chemical to be studied that easily. Moreover, pharmaceutical chemicals (drugs) do not inter-breed producing newer chemicals of unknown nature, whereas plants do!

Thus, the problems are the shallow knowledge of blind proponents of GM crops. I am all for GM crops, but in a very guarded way, for example, taking the above into consideration and with proper precautions. The potential risks are too much to rush into unconditionally embracing GM crops and so on.