For the truly Ignorant and Fearful Villagers, we should address their genuine concerns. But we need to raise the gate to the castle in the meantime, by counterattacking their legislative efforts. If food companies choose voluntarily to label their products as genetically modified, fine. But the power of the law has no business here. But this is not the case.
Unaltered foods are no safer.
They may even be less safe than GM foods. Unmodified foods contain endogenous pesticides, toxins, and allergens. No one can guarantee that GM foods are perfectly safe. The same can be said for unmodified foods. Some anti-GM activists claim that GM foods are not tested.