Why are they better than normal seeds, exactly? They can't solve hunger because the lack of food for people does not come from crop shortages, sexy wants group sex but systemic distribution and economic flaws, as well as people who believe monocultural and globally applicable solutions exist. What kind of sense does it make to say "The proper solution is local. Make all people everywhere grow and eat the same exact crops loy?" That isn't a local solution, it is a global one. I didn't say technology is always bad. But it isn't always good, either. So if it doesn't do a damn thing, and yet it has unknown consequences from its use (- the food become undigestible? An allergen? it infect or sterlize other vegetation? Poison? Upset the nutrient balance in the soil?), then I simply do not the purpose in any way, shape, or form. The fact that we are not speaking of a single farmer altering his crops slowly over a generation and then slowly disseminating it friend by friend, but we are speaking of rolling it out all over the world simultaneously, makes accidents and unintended consequences far more heinous than historical agricultural breeding. We are simply not talking about the same thing.