46.15% - Developing a GMO crop variety takes years of lab work and field trials before a single commercial acre gets planted — that research requires serious capital investment.
18.46% - You shouldn’t eat GMOs because they are bad for you.
13.85% - GMO’s contain toxins.
9.23% - GMOs exhibit a significant enough danger that they should be banned.
4.62% - Sales of GMOs require additional regulations.
3.85% - The government couldn't stop NAFTA from shipping jobs overseas or opioids from flooding rural towns — it sure isn't going to protect us from a GMO soybean.
3.85% - No test can eliminate every theoretical unknown — at some point you accept the evidence and let farmers use the technology.
There must be a line drawn where we allow some risk from unknowns?
30.00% - Terminator seed technology and contractual restrictions already prevent farmers from saving seed — this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's current practice.
30.00% - Even if there are more benign or benifical applications, a single dangerous application can justify treaties to limit technology to select government agents i.e. nuclear tech
30.00% - We can rely on our government to implement effective regulation.
5.00% - Terminator seeds force farmers back to the seed company every planting season — a dependency corporations engineered deliberately.
5.00% - Terminator seeds make farmers permanent customers of the seed company by engineering dependency into the crop's biology.
35.29% - The government couldn't stop NAFTA from shipping jobs overseas or opioids from flooding rural towns — it sure isn't going to protect us from a GMO soybean.
35.29% - GMO technology can be regulated with approved varieties and monitoring requirements — a blanket ban is a failure to think the problem through.
29.41% - Once the FDA and USDA have checked a GMO variety for real dangers, government's role is done — the rest is between farmers and the market.
20.00% - At some point a line must be drawn that accepts residual risk from unknowns.
20.00% - There must be a line drawn where we allow some risk from unknowns?
20.00% - Some level of residual risk from unknowns must be accepted at some point in any technology rollout.
20.00% - At some point, a line has to be drawn that accepts there will always be unknowns.
20.00% - At some point, society has to accept a residual level of risk in order to use a technology at all.
0.00% - https://reason.com/2018/09/12/risk-regulation-and-common-sense/