I guess everyone is free to have their own personal vocabulary and set of definitions. But the reality is that an entire new set of terms and definitions has been developed to describe the genetic engineering that can only take place in a lab. And, for the rest of the world, it's genetic engineering, or modification, NOT crossbreeding.
It's a little different than crossing a Black Angus and a Hereford.
I’m not the obtuse one here... genetic modification is what it is - done in a lab, in controlled circumstance, or in nature - genes are altered, and when one controls what occurs naturally, it’s engineering - hybridized plants are engineered. Cross-breed animals are engineered - I get it.