81.23% - Seed companies need to recoup R&D investment before funding the next crop — no return, no next drought-resistant variety.
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”.
2.06% - 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.
1.88% - Subsidizing private GMO seed patents with public dollars is corporate welfare dressed up as agricultural research policy.
1.88% - Running safety tests before scaling a new technology is responsible development — not grounds for keeping it locked in a lab indefinitely.
1.88% - We deployed hybrid corn and synthetic fertilizers without complete long-term data — at some point you draw the line and let GMO farming proceed.
Our government’s responsibility extends only to verifying plausible avenues of harm are assessed.
48.00% - Once GMO crop varieties are in widespread commercial use, banning them is physically impossible — pollen crosses state lines and you can't stop cross-pollination in the wind.
24.00% - Terminator seeds make farmers permanent customers of the seed company by engineering dependency into the crop's biology.
12.00% - Terminator seeds force farmers back to the seed company every planting season — a dependency corporations engineered deliberately.
10.00% - You shouldn’t eat GMOs
6.00% - Ban GMO crop sales and you push development to China and Brazil with no oversight, while American farmers buy those same seeds on the black market.
55.56% - Farmers have planted GMO soybeans since 1996 and grocery stores have carried GMO products for decades without incident — let farmers and markets keep making these calls.
44.44% - Subsidizing private GMO seed patents with public dollars is corporate welfare dressed up as agricultural research policy.
25.00% - Once relevant agencies have verified that plausible harms are addressed, the government's responsibility is complete.
25.00% - Once the relevant agencies have signed off that there is no real harm, the government has done its job.
25.00% - When the regulatory agencies have done their job, government's obligation on a product is met.
12.50% - Our government’s responsibility extends only to verifying plausible avenues of harm are assessed.
12.50% - Government oversight is satisfied once the plausible harms of a product have been investigated.
0.00% - The Proper Role of Government in a Free Society