I disagree. This is NOT a complex issue.
It is a deadly game of keep information from the public.

People have been genetically modifying things since the dawn of time. There is a lot of hysteria surrounding this subject much of which is ill informed.

No they haven't!
This is the number one excuse used. What humans have been doing "since the dawn of time" is to cross pollinate plants. In fact, bees have been doing this long before man. It is the reason why plants produce a male part and a female part. If the biodiversity wasn't important, then the plants would just pollinate themselves internally, or some such.

Genetically modifying is some scientists taking a soybean DNA and splicing in some grasshopper DNA.
We haven't had gene sequencers but for the last few decades. That is not "since the dawn of time" by a long shot.

When Monsanto does operations to remove tumors from their mice subjects, that is manipulating test data in the extreme. That they did this is not up for debate. The group in Europe who performed the same tests as Mansanto, but instead of the 3 months, they extended it out, found HUGE increase in cancer.

And, about the pesticides, Monsanto is engineering plants that NEED Monsanto pesticides.
There are people, every day, in India, committing suicide by drinking Monsanto pesticides.

Now, for the "other side" that you say that you see.
Permaculture farmers are growing far more with far less. They are actually repairing the soil. They are seeing increased yields. In fact, from Monsanto/mono-crop farmer, "Unbelievable yields".

Monsanto is not about trying to increase crop yields or actually make things better for insects or people. They are trying to kill people and destroy nations by controlling all the seeds.
There is no upside to what Monsanto is doing.