Despite the lack of long term testing, GMOs allowed the United States to quadruple it's food produce in the seventies, allowing for more people to have greater access to food, so my reasoning is that they are beneficial to society. Although if you're asking whether or not they're safe, that's still debatable because of the fact that we don't have long term testing done and the fact that some companies aren't containing them meaning that they're spreading uncontrollably all over the earth, leading to native species (which people depend upon) being wiped out. You also need to recognize that the United States is going through a health crisis in which we're over consuming unhealthy food, due in full because of the GMO technology that allowed this amount of fatty foods to be produced.