Frankenstein food?

One thing that you learn as you go through life is that there are two sides to every coin - nothing is all good or all bad. Surprisingly, this is a lesson which seems to escape many people. They just concentrate on the good and ignore the bad or vice versa. GM foods seem to me to be one such area - there are clearly enormous benefits to be gained from using that technology, but equally there are detrimental, or potentially detrimental consequences to be considered. To simply look at the one side and ignore the other benefits nobody. What is needed is an unemotional assessment of the pluses and minuses, and an acceptance of the fact that whichever way the decision goes, the views of those who oppose it are valid and must be addressed.