I agree, for the most part, with your stance in regard to pesticides, although properly applied, many are beneficial; some are, in fact, naturally-occurring in soil microbes. The problem arises when people who don't know what they're doing apply them improperly, ignorantly assuming that if a little is good, more is better. This is something that we've seen time and again with illegal marijuana grow-ops in the forests of the Emerald Triangle, for example, with the result that ecosystems are trashed with pesticides and rodenticides, thus contaminating waters and soils.

As for GMO labeling, I'm not exactly certain that we can trust government-approved labels (e.g., "all natural!") - nobody even knows what that actually means, so there's a problem right there. As well, I find that companies are increasingly eager to label their products in order to increase consumer appeal; thus we find breads, for example, bearing a label touting that they're made with no high-fructose corn syrup.