So I find, particularly in America where these things usually begin, people are afraid of/opposed to GMOs. Genetically Modified Organisms. Food, in other words.
The funny thing about this is that people have been eating GMOs for centuries. Practically all produce and meat you buy is genetically modified. There are no wild seedless watermelons. There are no wild cows. There are no wild large bananas. People seem to have an exaggerated idea of what is 'organic'. All agariculture is unnatural.
Wheat, be it ever so wholemeal and stoneground, is not a natural food for Homo sapiens. Nor is milk, except for children. Almost every morsel of our food is genetically modified admittedly by artificial selection not artificial mutation, but the end result is the same. A wheat grain is a genetically modified grass seed, just as a pekinese is a genetically modified wolf.
So what's different this time around? The fact that it's all done in a lab. All done by science. And it is the scientific illiteracy of the people that is fuelling the fear behind GMO. They don't understand science, so they fear it instead. There's really very little difference between genetically modifying the cow via artificial selection and doing it in the lab except that people don't understand the latter.
You forget one other thing: wild carrots are poisonous.