its breeding Dan, through genetic selection and manipulation of cell structures...

ill rephrase that, its engineering/breeding... so you are correct partly, as it all started out in a lab... but it takes YEARS to create something like that, and the only way to do that, is through breeding, and specific gene selections and what not... the plants have to be grown through multiple crops in order to have that embedded in their plant life cycle...

growing a hamburger patty in a petri dish in a lab is engineering a genetically modified organism...

taking a plant cell, and restructuring it in a lab to do something, is indeed engineering, but for it to work, it takes 20 or so years of breeding to make sure the product works as intended... wether its cross pollination with another plant species, or manual pollination in a greenhouse, or whatever, the plant cycles need to go from start to finish in order to embed that in the cycle and structure of the plant...

regardless if they are engineered, or bred, they arent good for the world really... sure, they are just like every other plant if you leave them be, and wont take over like Scotchbroom or other noxious weeds, but, with them being resistant to pesticides, and people thinking "oh, i can use as much as i want, and it wont hurt anything", thats bad news... because all that sh!t goes into the water table, creeks, rivers, lakes, oceans, mud puddles, ect, evaporates just as rain does, then rains the sh!t back down on you (miniscule amounts, but still, you like Round Up showers?)

so, even tho they arent "bad" as a plant, what happens during the growth of them, and whats done by the farmers growing them, thats most deffinately NOT a good thing... for you, for me, for anything...