If you're interested in why people boycott GM foods you probably need to know more about Monsanto.
Monsanto's Harvest of Fear | Politics | Vanity Fair
The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops | Mail Online
Terminator technology


Whilst I agree that selective breeding is a form of genetic modification it is a slow process and a far cry from things like terminator technology which IMO is utterly immoral and using animal genes in plants a la verminator seeds.