The Fable of Hawaiian Frankencorn - Reason.com

Let's not let the facts get in the way of the argument. Like the fact that cancer rates are lower on Kauai than other islands. Reading about this interaction, it sounds like it could happen in our little burg in shops, at doors, at the cultural plaza or wherever tongues choose to wag. Click title for link. This is the most telling part:

Anti-biotech signs and literature were scattered across the Hawaiian Islands. The Crystals and Gems Gallery in Hanalei, a trendy little town on Kauai, displayed several protest posters and offered fliers urging a ban on biotech crops. The gallery is the sort of place where, when my wife picked up an attractive stone and asked a clerk what it was, the reply was, "Do you mean, 'What does it do?' Apparently, that particular rock can dispel negativity.
After being advised on the therapeutic properties of various crystals, we asked the clerk what all the anti-biotech literature around the shop was about. She informed us that biotech crops cause cancer, stating emphatically that Kauai's cancer rates were exceptionally high, especially among people who live close to the seed company fields where biotech crop varieties are grown. She added that eating foods containing these ingredients disrupts satiety signals to the brain, causing people to eat too much, resulting in the obesity epidemic. Don't ask me to explain.

It seems to me that the propulsion of the anti-GMO issue comes from people that see it as a way we can sustain a larger human population on this plant and some people think that this is a bad thing.