The use of transgenic technology in agriculture has been an unwarranted point of contention in the eyes of the general public since their introduction to crops in the early 1990s.
Transgenic organisms, or organisms that carry foreign genes inserted deliberately (source) are not used exclusively in agriculture. Insulin used for sufferers of diabetes is produced through a transgenic process and many biological experiments involve transgenic animals for scientific purposes.
A recent article from The Economist suggests, with research from Cambridge University, suggest that transgenic organisms are more ubiquitous that we might think; their research suggests humans contain genes from organisms other than our ancestors.
If transgenic crop plants are as "bad" as many say they are based on their "unnatural" genes, us humans are just as "bad".
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