Genetics is the same thing as selective breeding, just done more precisely and efficiently. It has nothing to do with pesticides. Plants produce their own pesticides anyway (it's nicotine based). We just encourage that by redacting the genes that would hinder nicotine production in the leaves.
I am glad you drew something many of us agree on, which is the content of our food.
Genetically modified? The mere words in the same sentence as "food" just makes me ill.