100.00% - Seed companies need to recoup R&D investment before funding the next crop — no return, no next drought-resistant variety.
GMOs can be used to protect intellectual property
60.00% - Allow GMOs for emergency response only.
27.00% - No other agricultural tool responds to food supply crises as fast as GMO disease resistance and drought tolerance.
9.00% - GMO can protect crops vulnerable to climate change.
3.00% - GMO research needs more government support to ensure innovation benefits society
1.00% - When blight or drought threatens a staple food crop, you use every tool available — including GMO varieties that can salvage a harvest before people go without.
81.23% - Seed companies need to recoup R&D investment before funding the next crop — no return, no next drought-resistant variety.
4.12% - Terminator seed technology and contractual restrictions already prevent farmers from saving seed — this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's current practice.
3.57% - Terminator seeds force farmers back to the seed company every planting season — a dependency corporations engineered deliberately.
2.77% - A seed company patenting a GMO crop is protecting years of research investment, the same way a drug company patents a new medicine — that's what makes anyone invest in the next innovation.
2.77% - Calling GMO food 'toxic' without naming a specific compound, dose, or mechanism is a scare tactic, not science.
2.77% - GMO technology can have terrible side-effects.
2.77% - GMOs greatly increase the chances of “super weeds”.
20.00% - GMO patents allow developers to protect the intellectual property they created.
20.00% - GMOs can be used to protect intellectual property
20.00% - GMO patents serve as a vehicle for protecting the intellectual property of their creators.
20.00% - GMO patents are the legal vehicle that protects what the developers actually built.
20.00% - GMO patents are how developers protect the work and investment that produced the crop.
50.00% - Genetically modified crops