Genetically Modified Potatoes

When picking up a french fry at a McDonalds, I can’t help but wonder if what I am about to consume is actually a potato, or rather a natural potato. It looks like a potato, tastes like one; if I wasn’t told that it was genetically modified, I would never be able to tell. Just like the tomato, if I was never informed that they were genetically modified to look more appealing and red, I would have thought they grew like that on their own. However, the fact that the government can label a certain potato as a pesticide, yet still allow it to be sold as food is truly unsettling. These genetic engineering, monoculture, factory farms that the country has grown dependent on has began to have detrimental effects on nature and the human population. The link between genetically modified foods and early puberty has been made, as well as an increase rate in cancer and food poisoning epidemics. In the environment, monocultures have caused a decrease in pollinators, specifically bees, and agriculture pollution. With all these negative and unpredicted effects, why then does the general population and the government continue allow this instead of finding alternative methods. Granted it is much easier to opt for the vegetable that may cause health risks down the road but happens to be significantly cheaper than the organic version (especially now when money is tight). Also, for the government to veer away from the genetic engineering, pesticides, and monocultures, it’s like walking away from a highly expensive and growing industry.
If today’s technology is advanced enough to create a potato that produces its own pesticide, shouldn’t we be able to find an alternative to monocultures altogether? It’s a fact that monocultures breed resistance to pesticides, that is why scientists came up with the new leaf potato; but if the Colorado beetle evolved to become immune to the original pesticides, could it not just become immune to the new pesticides produced within the potato? I guess that is where this expensive industry comes in and performs the process over again by creating a new type of new leaf potato.