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”.
Sales of GMOs require additional regulations.
83.57% - 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.
2.79% - 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.
2.79% - You shouldn’t eat GMOs
2.79% - "Termination seeds" should be banned.
2.24% - 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.
1.96% - 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.
1.68% - GMO technology can be regulated with approved varieties and monitoring requirements — a blanket ban is a failure to think the problem through.
1.26% - GMO crops face more rigorous safety testing than any conventional produce ever did.
0.93% - Intellectual property laws need reform.
20.00% - Sales of GMOs require additional regulations.
20.00% - GMO sales should be governed by additional regulations beyond standard food safety.
20.00% - GMO sales should be subject to additional rules beyond ordinary food safety.
20.00% - GMO sales warrant a tighter regulatory regime than standard food safety provides.
20.00% - GMO sales should be regulated more tightly than standard food safety rules require.
50.00% - Genetically modified food controversies
