Genetically Modified Foods

GMO's are definitley intriguing. They seem to be the perfect solution to the world's problems, yet a lot of people completely disagree with the concept of GMO's.

In my opinion, if we can make plants retain more water, produce bigger fruits, etc, why not?

Several people have a problem with destroying the "natural qualities" of the plant. I'm pretty sure they're not going to have that problem when food shortages become a problem.

We've abused too many of our resources before, only to realize the problems now. Water and Coal are just a few. Do we really want to mess with food too? Why can't we realize the problem in advance and fix it?

I was wondering what some of the costs of GMO's were, so I looked it up. The article below gives a whole list. Besides the safety issues, the others seem like bogus to me.

What do you think?

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/gmfood.shtml