20.77% - Terminator seed technology and contractual restrictions already prevent farmers from saving seed — this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's current practice.
20.77% - 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
20.77% - Terminator seeds force farmers back to the seed company every planting season — a dependency corporations engineered deliberately.
20.77% - Terminator seeds make farmers permanent customers of the seed company by engineering dependency into the crop's biology.
16.92% - We can rely on our government to implement effective regulation.
The current regulatory framework for GMOs is insufficient.
81.23% - Seed companies need to recoup R&D investment before funding the next crop — no return, no next drought-resistant variety.
3.08% - GMO crops face more rigorous safety testing than any conventional produce ever did.
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”.
2.50% - 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.
2.12% - 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.
25.00% - The current regulatory framework for GMOs is inadequate to the risks involved.
25.00% - The current regulatory framework around GMOs does not match the scale of what is being created.
25.00% - The regulatory framework around GMOs is not adequate to the risks they introduce.
12.50% - The current regulatory framework for GMOs is insufficient.
12.50% - The regulatory framework around GMOs has not kept pace with the scale of what is being produced.
50.00% - Genetically modified food controversies
