Shift in GM Crop Debate

With arable land decreasing, and populations still growing, it has been clear for a long time that modern agricultural husbandry is required to develop crops for specific environments. Anti-globalists, usually with a strong anti-American flavor, have emphasized the unknowns of transgenic crops to scare poor nations, and politically isolate developing nations. But with the approval of GMO crops by the EU, and an Indian official inviting the rapid development of transgenic wheat, we see a shift in media coverage. In both stories, skepticism over GM crops' possible threat to the environment is mentioned, but no one is quoted. This usually means those ideas are widely touted, but considered valid only by fringe elements. The media have begun to marginalize those particular activists, since none of their concerns have ever been proven, in the laboratory, or in field tests. Hopefully, this is a sign that the "population bomb" theme, so prevalent in many environmentalist movements, is also on its way out. I'm not that hopeful that it will be any time soon, since that theme is a major contributing motivator to the "peak oil" crowd, and the AGW crowd. Population bomb theories have been around for over 40 years now, and counter-culturists keep coming back to it, even though every single aspect of it has been debunked, mainly just by the passage of time. Let's hope time runs out soon on the "Frankenstein foods" meme too.