GMO's are one of the reasons that food is still relatively abundant despite the population growth, where a few decades ago there were predictions that the world simply couldn't sustain the population growth that began around the 1960's. I suspect that continued growth will render the GMO debate moot by virtue of few alternatives to starving. As it is, AFAIK, GMO farms & imports are already relatively common in poorer & less developed countries.

I honestly never understood the objection to GMO. Identifying the gene that some plants have to resist disease & turning it off never struck me as any more inherently risky than the end result of a multi-generational cultivation process that ultimately selects for the same or similar variations.