great post (upvoted/followed)! There's a lot of emotion, and not enough knowledge about GMOs.
some points I would like to add:
Considering the pesticides, I think their health effects are just a minor problem. As I wrote earlier this week, it is not proven at all that the lack of pesticides makes your food healthier.
However, the excessive application of herbicides leads to the development of super-resistant weeds, which pose an increasing problem for agriculture. Also, the quality of the soil is impaired by the chemicals.
And then there is another point that should be considered, and it has nothing to do with health:
With GMOs, Farmers can't just use the crops of last years as seeds, the seeds have to be freshly bought each year. This drives farmers into dependency of those huge corporations like monsanto, dupont etc., whose market dominance reaches monopoly-like heights for some crops. And - over time - it drives small farmers out of the market.
I fully agree