Genetically Modified..............PEOPLE.

I recently picked up "The Lab" by Jack Heath again. It follows a secret agent-type character, called Agent Six of Hearts, in a world where one company controls an entire city and has encased it in an enormous wall. Six, as I'll call him for lack of a better nickname, was a genetic experiment carried out by a division of the same company that controls the city, ChaoSonic. He has no idea of his origins apart from that fact and would like to learn more about himself, but ChaoSonic is seeking him so he can be vivisected, assessed, psychologically tested, etc. by the people who created him. Fun stuff.
Six is a great agent, always brings in the bad guys, does crazy stunts, can't die easily, and all that jazz, but primarily because of the fact that he was engineered, so to speak, for the task at hand. This fact spurred my thinking onwards towards the genetically modified foods movement, and the controversy surrounding it. So I began to separate the pros and cons of GMOs and compare them to the book's insight on Six. On the positive side, GMOs can be altered for resistance to insects, temperature, pH, pesticides and herbicides, really anything that would normally kill a plant. Also, more and more nutrients can be added to GMOs to make people healthier. GMOs can also be produced in larger quantities. However, GMOs also have a severe downside. Some genetically modified components of different plants can harm or kill animals, insects, or plant species unintentionally. Genetic modifications can unwittingly transfer to other plant species as well. Increased allergenicity is also an issue, and the fact that since GMOs haven't been fully researched, nobody knows the full range of effects they could have over time.
Six also has special genetic resistance to all sorts of things: pain, decreased visibility, cuts and wounds and broken bones, etc. He can also be cloned repeatedly in his futuristic world, and then his clones can be sold off to be employed elsewhere as bodyguards and assassins and the like. Those are the more desirable qualitites of his modifications. The less desirable qualities of his modifications are that he has practically no social interaction, no strong emotions, and avoids long conversations at all costs. So like GMOs, It's hard to tell what negative effects he'll have on the city in the future as a result of his modifications.
Personally, I don't really like the thought that my food has been specifically grown with genes from different animals and custom fit to look a certain way or grown twice as large. For instance, GM tomatoes were created to be more resistant to cold temperatures by inserting a gene from flounder. Yes, the fish. There is fish in your tomato.
I'm not quite sure where I was going with this discussion, but I think I've mapped out my thoughts quite a bit.