21.43% - You shouldn’t eat GMOs because they are bad for you.
17.14% - Sales of GMOs require additional regulations.
17.14% - GMOs exhibit a significant enough danger that they should be banned.
17.14% - GMO’s contain toxins.
13.21% - 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.
6.79% - An acceptable level of risk will always exist.
4.08% - No test can eliminate every theoretical unknown — at some point you accept the evidence and let farmers use the technology.
3.06% - We deployed hybrid corn and synthetic fertilizers without complete long-term data — at some point you draw the line and let GMO farming proceed.
Government has failed to shield us from far bigger threats than what GMOs might pose.
60.00% - 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
27.00% - Terminator seed technology and contractual restrictions already prevent farmers from saving seed — this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's current practice.
9.00% - There is a danger for GMOs leading to species that serve the goals of special interests but diminish the wider needs of humanity.
3.00% - 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.
1.00% - We can rely on our government to implement effective regulation.
36.84% - 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.
34.21% - We deployed hybrid corn and synthetic fertilizers without complete long-term data — at some point you draw the line and let GMO farming proceed.
28.95% - 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.
25.00% - Government has failed to shield us from far bigger threats than what GMOs might pose.
25.00% - No government can shield its citizens from every possible harm.
25.00% - Government has never been able to protect ordinary people from every danger the world throws at them.
25.00% - No government anywhere can promise to protect its citizens from every possible threat.
0.00% - Government/society cannot protect us from everything.
0.00% - Biotechnology and GMOs: A Farmer's Perspective
