GMOs were traditionally engineered by adding bacterial based genes to seeds so they would poison insects or survive vigorous weed sprays.

Why would anyone want to eat food with pesticide built right in?

... advanced genetic manipulation techniques enabling high-precision editing ...

It's not even close to high precision.

A simple way to understand gene editing is to look at it the this way. A simple word processing spell checker identifies then corrects any errors in a sentence.

Their our word professors that don't ketch and fix everything ether. Yours didn't

The big 4 hope will make sure transgenic crops modified with CRISPR can will be largely exempted from regulation by the USDA or any other agency.

What's a couple extra billion dollars of grease worth to a corrupt government agency?

Good work @mother2chicks. Resteemed and upvoted.