27.86% - There is a danger for GMOs leading to species that serve the goals of special interests but diminish the wider needs of humanity.
27.86% - Terminator seed technology and contractual restrictions already prevent farmers from saving seed — this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's current practice.
27.86% - Thirty years of GMO data shows no cancer spikes, no ecosystem destruction, no poisoned aquifers — apply the standard honestly, and GMO crops pass.
7.14% - Running safety tests before scaling a new technology is responsible development — not grounds for keeping it locked in a lab indefinitely.
4.64% - 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
4.64% - The current regulatory framework for GMOs is insufficient.
The standard is that any new technology must be limited if its harms outweigh its benefits.
30.00% - GMOs exhibit a significant enough danger that they should be banned.
30.00% - You shouldn’t eat GMOs because they are bad for you.
20.00% - 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.
10.00% - GMO’s contain toxins.
10.00% - 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.
54.17% - GMO technology can be regulated with approved varieties and monitoring requirements — a blanket ban is a failure to think the problem through.
45.83% - 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.
20.00% - A new technology should be restricted only when its demonstrated harms outweigh its benefits.
20.00% - The standard is that any new technology must be limited if its harms outweigh its benefits.
20.00% - A technology should be restricted only when its harms demonstrably outweigh its benefits.
20.00% - A technology should be restricted only when its harms are demonstrably greater than its benefits.
20.00% - A new technology should be restricted only when its harms are demonstrably greater than its benefits.
0.00% - https://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/commentary/simple-cost-benefit-test-regulation