These have been the hallmarks of the various anti-GMO campaigns that have rallied through the media over the last couple of decades. A more sober assessment of the public GMO debate reveals that it's not really about the science of the safety and impacts of growing GMO organisms, it's more a backlash against perceived corporate control of agriculture and food as well as an anti-authoritarian stab at the endorsement of GMO and biotechnology by governments and institutions.