48.00% - GMO can protect crops vulnerable to climate change.
24.00% - GMO research needs more government support to ensure innovation benefits society
12.00% - Subsidizing private GMO seed patents with public dollars is corporate welfare dressed up as agricultural research policy.
10.00% - Allow GMOs for emergency response only.
6.00% - No other agricultural tool responds to food supply crises as fast as GMO disease resistance and drought tolerance.
GMOs regulatory framework is not robust enough to respond to unexpected threats.
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.
18.46% - Once a technology is understood, the next step is deploying it — that's how every agricultural advance from hybrid seed to tractors got adopted.
18.46% - No test can eliminate every theoretical unknown — at some point you accept the evidence and let farmers use the technology.
18.46% - 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.
2.93% - 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.
2.56% - 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.
2.20% - 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% - GMOs regulatory framework is not robust enough to respond to unexpected threats.
20.00% - GMO regulation lacks the robustness needed to respond to unexpected threats.
20.00% - GMO regulation is not built to respond to threats that have not yet appeared.
20.00% - GMO regulation is not robust enough to respond to threats that have not yet appeared.
20.00% - GMO regulation is poorly positioned to respond to threats that have not yet appeared.
50.00% - Genetically modified food controversies
