Biologists have given us a great gift by unlocking the power of DNA. YES we must be careful as fuck with that power, but IMHO, we should also use it if it is needed. Genetically modified organisms have every bit of potential people say they have, and so much more that they don't even talk about. We are herein discussing the very foundry of creation and now more than ever are the gods of our world.
Hubris though this may be, it is absolutely true. The use of techniques to add and remove traits from organisms could possibly open an entirely new world of variety and precision in the propagation of life in the known universe. The previous sentence is, however, a double edged sword that is Excalibur sharp on both sides. While the potential exists to make quality of life better, also potential exists to do what many humans would call great evil.
We are tottering on the precipice as we speak. This is the time in which we will see on which side of things we will fall.
We need to ask ourselves who we want to be the custodians of this power. We need to ask ourselves what they've done in the past.
I am not against GMO's, but I am against
Monsanto (link relatively free of emotional rhetoric, based on facts).
However, If there is anything that Monsanto has proven through the years, it is precisely that they do not give any fucks what anyone thinks or says about them. I do not think walking around with a permit - threatening to snitch on people who actually practice civil disobedience - is the way to stop them.
I advocate nothing.