Toxins is a term applied too broadly to have clear meaning.
48.00% - There is a danger for GMOs leading to species that serve the goals of special interests but diminish the wider needs of humanity.
24.00% - Thirty years of GMO data shows no cancer spikes, no ecosystem destruction, no poisoned aquifers — apply the standard honestly, and GMO crops pass.
12.00% - Restricting GMO deployment to crisis scenarios kills the R&D pipeline — innovation needs a real commercial market to justify investment.
10.00% - 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
6.00% - Terminator seed technology and contractual restrictions already prevent farmers from saving seed — this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's current practice.
46.15% - Running safety tests before scaling a new technology is responsible development — not grounds for keeping it locked in a lab indefinitely.
21.03% - Thirty years of commercial GMO crops, and not one cancer spike, not one ecological catastrophe — the danger argument is dead.
13.85% - GMO should receive more testing before sale.
9.23% - GMO crops face more rigorous safety testing than any conventional produce ever did.
4.62% - 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.
2.80% - 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.
2.33% - GMO technology can be regulated with approved varieties and monitoring requirements — a blanket ban is a failure to think the problem through.
20.00% - Without a specific compound, dose, and mechanism, the word "toxic" loses its meaning.
20.00% - Toxins is a term applied too broadly to have clear meaning.
20.00% - The word toxin is applied so broadly in casual use that it has lost a useful meaning.
20.00% - The word toxin has been thrown around so loosely that it no longer means anything specific.
20.00% - The word toxin is used so broadly in casual conversation that it has lost any precise meaning.
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