While I totally agree that microwaves get a bad rap, and are fine... GMO and selective breeding are not the same. You cannot be blase about this stuff because of the chance things will go wrong - you can end up with an unkillable strain, completely overtaking natural vegetation, or some weird side effect that causes... I don't know what. That's the point. We aren't smart enough to predict, only to go - in hindsight - ohhhhhh.
We do NOT have a food shortage. We have a distribution problem, and a problem with the big processed food manufacturers being too big and playing the different feed stocks off each other. GMO is not 'the' answer, it is an answer looking for a problem.
In some instances, it'd be fine. But for what it's currently being used for? No, you just end up with more nutrient hungry crops that will - without fertiliser which creates runoff which creates aquatic death... - end up leaving a barren wasteland, because of the monoculture.
Supermarket chicken is a fucking disgrace; anyone that has seen how those chickens are raised.. man. I mean - in that case, meat grown in a vat *is* better, IMHO, but jesus, just eat less meat, eat more veg and less processed shit and we'd ALL be better off. But no - big industry = big lobbying = subsidies which go to all the wrong places.
A chicken is related to an indian jungle fowl, btw, not a pheasant, but whatever, closeish I spose.