100.00% - Seed companies need to recoup R&D investment before funding the next crop — no return, no next drought-resistant variety.
Research on GMO is expensive.
35.00% - Terminator seeds force farmers back to the seed company every planting season — a dependency corporations engineered deliberately.
25.00% - We can rely on our government to implement effective regulation.
20.00% - Terminator seeds make farmers permanent customers of the seed company by engineering dependency into the crop's biology.
15.00% - 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
5.00% - 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.
21.35% - GMO crops face more rigorous safety testing than any conventional produce ever did.
18.46% - 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.
18.46% - GMO should receive more testing before sale.
18.46% - Thirty years of commercial GMO crops, and not one cancer spike, not one ecological catastrophe — the danger argument is dead.
18.46% - Running safety tests before scaling a new technology is responsible development — not grounds for keeping it locked in a lab indefinitely.
4.81% - GMO crop development costs hundreds of millions of dollars — family farms don't run biotech labs; that's why it's Monsanto, Bayer, and Syngenta doing the research. Not a scandal, just scale.
20.00% - GMO research requires substantial capital investment over many years.
20.00% - Research on GMO is expensive.
20.00% - GMO research carries substantial costs that constrain who can conduct it.
20.00% - GMO research costs are high enough to determine who can afford to do it.
20.00% - GMO research is expensive enough to be conducted only by well-funded institutions.
50.00% - Genetically modified food controversies
