It's pretty cool; the idea of the project was to engineer a way around an introduced pathogen that the species was never able to adapt to naturally and re-establish it in the wild.

I agree that the health risks are overblown - most of the time the gene expression isn't even in the part of the plant that gets eaten. The hysteria is silly. But at the same time herbicide resistant crops are known to encourage higher herbicide applications so I guess there's a case for indirect impacts :shrug-outta-hecks: