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kyoushiro said:
Sadly, it's not that easy. Researchers usually work hired for companies (call it a university, a corporate, etc). They can't research whatever they please.
Professors in universities have some kinds of freedom of what they want to do, but funding agents (eg. NIH, wellcome trust) have lots of influences on their research directions. There is always a debate on how to allocate money between basic and medical research.

Why do you think transgenic food is bad? Even before modern science arose, people started engineering rice by crossing different rice species. I heard that transgenic rice have a higher nutrient value, so that poor countries can feed their people better.