35.00% - Restricting GMO deployment to crisis scenarios kills the R&D pipeline — innovation needs a real commercial market to justify investment.
25.00% - 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.
20.00% - Thirty years of GMO data shows no cancer spikes, no ecosystem destruction, no poisoned aquifers — apply the standard honestly, and GMO crops pass.
15.00% - Allow GMOs for emergency response only.
5.00% - There is a danger for GMOs leading to species that serve the goals of special interests but diminish the wider needs of humanity.
Intellectual property laws need reform.
23.08% - You shouldn’t eat GMOs because they are bad for you.
18.46% - Sales of GMOs require additional regulations.
18.46% - GMOs exhibit a significant enough danger that they should be banned.
18.46% - GMO’s contain toxins.
13.85% - 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.
3.99% - Seed companies need to recoup R&D investment before funding the next crop — no return, no next drought-resistant variety.
3.70% - 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.
20.00% - Intellectual property laws need reform.
20.00% - Intellectual property law in its current form requires substantive reform.
20.00% - Intellectual property law needs reform to serve people rather than enclose what is shared.
20.00% - Intellectual property law needs reform to serve the public rather than just the patent holders.
20.00% - Intellectual property law in its current form blocks public benefit and requires fundamental reform.
50.00% - Intellectual property
