100.00% - 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.
Prohibition in some cases is operationally impossible.
20.00% - GMO’s contain toxins.
20.00% - You shouldn’t eat GMOs because they are bad for you.
20.00% - 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.
20.00% - GMO crop development costs hundreds of millions of dollars — family farms don't run biotech labs; that's why it's Monsanto, Bayer, and Syngenta doing the research. Not a scandal, just scale.
20.00% - Seed companies need to recoup R&D investment before funding the next crop — no return, no next drought-resistant variety.
83.57% - There is a danger for GMOs leading to species that serve the goals of special interests but diminish the wider needs of humanity.
7.14% - GMO technology can be regulated with approved varieties and monitoring requirements — a blanket ban is a failure to think the problem through.
2.79% - Terminator seed technology and contractual restrictions already prevent farmers from saving seed — this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's current practice.
2.79% - 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
2.79% - We can rely on our government to implement effective regulation.
0.93% - Terminator seeds force farmers back to the seed company every planting season — a dependency corporations engineered deliberately.
20.00% - Once something is widespread, fully prohibiting it becomes operationally impossible.
20.00% - Prohibition in some cases is operationally impossible.
20.00% - Once a technology spreads widely, prohibiting it becomes operationally impossible.
20.00% - A technology in widespread use cannot be fully prohibited once it is loose in the world.
20.00% - A technology in wide use cannot be fully prohibited after it has spread.
50.00% - Genetically modified crops