The long goodbye to GMO

According to NYT food blogger Marc Bittman, France has called for a ban on Monsanto's GMO corn.  For the uninitiated, GMO  stands for Genentically Modified Organism.   I think if proponents of said technology had to repeat the full moniker for these frankensteinian genetic splices there would be even less public support than there is now.  Most people intuitively realize that food scientists are playing with something more dangerous than fire as they dice and splice various genetic components in ways that nature never intended.  The European ag community has at least turned a sceptical eye on this hubris, but the American university system is a hostage of the Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont axis, as are the farm state senators.