Actually, it was in a lab with a “gene gun”. The same with BT crops. Both genes, the herbicide-resistance one and the pesticide-producing one, were inserted with a bacterial “gene gun” that shot the exogenous DNA into the plant cells.
And how/where did they get that gene in the first place? Is it lab created too? Or did they plant plot after plot, treated with round up, crossing the survivors and studying them until they identified the gene?
So it’s okay to do the painfully slow generational method, but evil to speed up the process with technology. Results are same-same, but only the process counts.