The law can, if it chooses, make a distinction between on the one hand a plant with a genome produced by non-GMO methods and on the other hand a plant with the same exact genome produced with GMO methods. The law regularly chooses to pay attention to things like this even though nature makes no distinction.

Sure, but that doesn't have any affect on the safety of eating the plant, which was the topic here.

Everything, since the nutrition comes from things that are covered by IP law.