However, the public seems to be accepting these products quite well. I think so. A report from the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences came out a few years ago stating that the end product should be considered only as to what it is and not as to how it was reached. If you reach insect resistance by genetic engineering and then you reach it through plant breeding by traditional means, the end product is the same. You shouldn't consider one product acceptable and the other not acceptable.
Bacteria have a bad reputation in people's minds.
They cause disease and they're harmful. Of course, you can't see them. Once they're out there, you don't know that they are there. And you can't call them back if they escape. You don't know where they're going, whereas with plants you can see them.