This is a good illustration of how certain issues can become political when they shouldn't be. Whether GM food is safe or not should be a scientific and not political issue. A similar example is how taking action on climate change is seen as a policy of the left (especially in the USA), but it...
None* of the food we currently eat is natural. Pigs, cows, chickens, sweetcorn etc have never existed in the wild in their current form. This is the next step in a process we have been following since we started agriculture.
*ok, probably an exaggeration.