Up here in Canada the tables have been turned on Monsanto recently. They have ended up paying damages to farmers whose standard non GM crops have been tainted by GM pollen. They have had to clean up entire fields, ditches etc.
"benign " it has never been. Just a matter of false advertising which they have been charged with many times and misleading advertising. No different than the feed industry telling the public low doses of arsenic in feed was safe.
Scarey when you come to realize how much of the food supply they own now. The very seeds that are used to supply a nation with food are no longer public domain. You have to pay for the PRIVILAGE of growing food and at any time they can pull the pin on it.