74.76% - 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.
7.48% - Terminator seeds make farmers permanent customers of the seed company by engineering dependency into the crop's biology.
5.61% - Terminator seeds force farmers back to the seed company every planting season — a dependency corporations engineered deliberately.
3.73% - 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.
3.42% - 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.
3.14% - We can rely on our government to implement effective regulation.
1.87% - 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
No government support should be given to GMO research.
30.00% - Thirty years of commercial GMO crops, and not one cancer spike, not one ecological catastrophe — the danger argument is dead.
25.00% - Running safety tests before scaling a new technology is responsible development — not grounds for keeping it locked in a lab indefinitely.
20.00% - No test can eliminate every theoretical unknown — at some point you accept the evidence and let farmers use the technology.
15.00% - Once a technology is understood, the next step is deploying it — that's how every agricultural advance from hybrid seed to tractors got adopted.
10.00% - GMO should receive more testing before sale.
100.00% - 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% - Public dollars should not subsidize private GMO research.
25.00% - Public money should not subsidize private GMO research.
25.00% - Government should not be subsidizing private GMO research with public money.
12.50% - No government support should be given to GMO research.
12.50% - Government should provide no financial support for GMO research.
50.00% - Whole Foods Market
