Organics vs. Locals vs. Engineered foods

Ideal Bite provides a daily newsletter that gives tips and hawks products for the greenie in all of us. I like some of the tips which I keep in an "Ideal Bite Keepers" folder in my email. The rest are tossed in the trash. It's a daily dose of greenery that keeps me informed and on my toes. And sometimes I get a nice eye roll when I read about buying organic *insert product here* that I don't use anyway. But some of the time, they hit the nail on the head. Errr...the organic nail?
Anyway, today's Ideal Bite tip was all about genetically engineered food that suspiciously finds their way into our pantries, fridges, and freezers. A list of these foods, along with their non-engineered alternative, is available here.
I enjoyed, and was disturbed, by reading the list. But my main question, and I have to admit that I did not read the other information on the True Food website very fully*, is this: about five Weight Watchers meals are listed as genetically engineered. Does that mean only those five are GE'ed (how funny!) or does it mean that they all are?? If all of them are GE'ed, why not list them all?? Just curious.
Disturbing as the list is, and I have to admit that I have quite a lot of the GE'ed foods, I was also skeptical about their meaning of organic. For example, the beef and chicken we get from the local farm, just a bike ride away, is not organic. I don't remember exactly why but they don't use hormones in their meat. They are free-range animals (and very cute, I might add) but they are still not organic. I have also listened/read from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle that some farmers can't afford to purchase the permit that makes them organic. Small farms especially.
So that launches into the debate of buy locally or buy organically. Personally: I'm all about the local people. Here's why:
I develop a relationship with them. They see me, I can tell them that there food is freakin' awesome, we develop a relationship. Honestly, have you ever intentionally poisoned your friends? Lied to them? Plus I got really good fertility advice from the farmstand lady, advice on cooking shallots (which are excellent!) from another, and I got to pick up a very hefty chicken! What's there to lose?

*I sure am a great librarian, right?? :)