80.00% - 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.
5.00% - The government couldn't stop NAFTA from shipping jobs overseas or opioids from flooding rural towns — it sure isn't going to protect us from a GMO soybean.
5.00% - GMO crops face more rigorous safety testing than any conventional produce ever did.
5.00% - GMO should receive more testing before sale.
5.00% - Thirty years of commercial GMO crops, and not one cancer spike, not one ecological catastrophe — the danger argument is dead.
Testing what we only know now won’t protect us from unknowns.
70.00% - Intellectual property laws need reform.
12.00% - GMOs regulatory framework is not robust enough to respond to unexpected threats.
6.00% - The current regulatory framework for GMOs is insufficient.
6.00% - GMO technology can be regulated with approved varieties and monitoring requirements — a blanket ban is a failure to think the problem through.
6.00% - A troubling application of GMO technology doesn't indict the entire field — just like one bad drug doesn't end all pharmaceutical research.
55.17% - The government couldn't stop NAFTA from shipping jobs overseas or opioids from flooding rural towns — it sure isn't going to protect us from a GMO soybean.
44.83% - We deployed hybrid corn and synthetic fertilizers without complete long-term data — at some point you draw the line and let GMO farming proceed.
20.00% - No amount of present-day testing can rule out every theoretical unknown.
20.00% - Testing what we only know now won’t protect us from unknowns.
20.00% - Present-day testing cannot foreclose every theoretical unknown about a technology.
20.00% - No amount of testing today can fully account for what we do not yet know.
20.00% - No round of testing today can settle every question we have not yet learned to ask.
0.00% - Like your food choices this Thanksgiving? GMOs help with that.