40.95% - Terminator seeds force farmers back to the seed company every planting season — a dependency corporations engineered deliberately.
31.43% - We can rely on our government to implement effective regulation.
10.24% - Terminator seeds make farmers permanent customers of the seed company by engineering dependency into the crop's biology.
7.14% - No other agricultural tool responds to food supply crises as fast as GMO disease resistance and drought tolerance.
5.12% - Once GMO crop varieties are in widespread commercial use, banning them is physically impossible — pollen crosses state lines and you can't stop cross-pollination in the wind.
5.12% - 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.
Allow GMOs for emergency response.
35.00% - Calling GMO food 'toxic' without naming a specific compound, dose, or mechanism is a scare tactic, not science.
25.00% - 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% - GMO technology can have terrible side-effects.
15.00% - Seed companies need to recoup R&D investment before funding the next crop — no return, no next drought-resistant variety.
5.00% - GMOs greatly increase the chances of “super weeds”.
100.00% - No other agricultural tool responds to food supply crises as fast as GMO disease resistance and drought tolerance.
20.00% - GMO crops should be permitted as a tool for responding to food supply emergencies.
20.00% - Allow GMOs for emergency response.
20.00% - GMO crops should be available as a tool for responding to food emergencies.
20.00% - GMO crops should be available when a food crisis demands a fast response.
20.00% - GMO crops should be available as a response when a food supply crisis demands it.
50.00% - Maize
