70.00% - Restricting GMO deployment to crisis scenarios kills the R&D pipeline — innovation needs a real commercial market to justify investment.
12.00% - 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% - There is a danger for GMOs leading to species that serve the goals of special interests but diminish the wider needs of humanity.
6.00% - Terminator seed technology and contractual restrictions already prevent farmers from saving seed — this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's current practice.
6.00% - Thirty years of GMO data shows no cancer spikes, no ecosystem destruction, no poisoned aquifers — apply the standard honestly, and GMO crops pass.
Allow GMOs for emergency response only.
46.15% - 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.
18.46% - You shouldn’t eat GMOs because they are bad for you.
13.85% - GMO’s contain toxins.
9.23% - GMOs exhibit a significant enough danger that they should be banned.
4.62% - Sales of GMOs require additional regulations.
3.15% - Restricting GMO deployment to crisis scenarios kills the R&D pipeline — innovation needs a real commercial market to justify investment.
2.45% - 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.
2.10% - GMO technology can be regulated with approved varieties and monitoring requirements — a blanket ban is a failure to think the problem through.
20.00% - Allow GMOs for emergency response only.
20.00% - GMO deployment should be permitted only in genuine emergencies.
20.00% - GMO deployment should be reserved for actual emergencies.
20.00% - GMO use should be reserved for genuine emergencies, not normalized as everyday practice.
20.00% - GMO use should be reserved for genuine emergencies and not normalized as everyday practice.
50.00% - Genetically modified food controversies
