53.57% - 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.
46.43% - Seed companies need to recoup R&D investment before funding the next crop — no return, no next drought-resistant variety.
Research into GMOs is limited to a select few with significant funds.
20.00% - 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.
20.00% - You shouldn’t eat GMOs
20.00% - "Termination seeds" should be banned.
20.00% - Intellectual property laws need reform.
20.00% - The current regulatory framework for GMOs is insufficient.
27.69% - GMOs exhibit a significant enough danger that they should be banned.
27.69% - You shouldn’t eat GMOs because they are bad for you.
18.46% - 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.
9.23% - GMO’s contain toxins.
9.23% - 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.
4.17% - Seed companies need to recoup R&D investment before funding the next crop — no return, no next drought-resistant variety.
3.53% - Subsidizing private GMO seed patents with public dollars is corporate welfare dressed up as agricultural research policy.
20.00% - Only a handful of well-funded organizations can afford to conduct meaningful GMO research.
20.00% - Research into GMOs is limited to a select few with significant funds.
20.00% - GMO research is concentrated among the small set of organizations with the capital to fund it.
20.00% - GMO research is concentrated in a handful of well-funded organizations and nowhere else.
20.00% - GMO research is concentrated in a small number of well-capitalized organizations.
0.00% - https://www.wsj.com/articles/corporate-investment-drives-agriculture-innovation