23.08% - GMOs greatly increase the chances of “super weeds”.
19.12% - Calling GMO food 'toxic' without naming a specific compound, dose, or mechanism is a scare tactic, not science.
18.46% - GMO technology can have terrible side-effects.
18.46% - A seed company patenting a GMO crop is protecting years of research investment, the same way a drug company patents a new medicine — that's what makes anyone invest in the next innovation.
13.85% - You shouldn’t buy GMO because an increasded market for them could bring about environmental harm.
0.88% - Thirty years of commercial GMO crops, and not one cancer spike, not one ecological catastrophe — the danger argument is dead.
0.82% - 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.
0.77% - 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.
0.71% - GMO crops face more rigorous safety testing than any conventional produce ever did.
0.71% - Restricting GMO deployment to crisis scenarios kills the R&D pipeline — innovation needs a real commercial market to justify investment.
0.66% - Once a technology is understood, the next step is deploying it — that's how every agricultural advance from hybrid seed to tractors got adopted.
0.66% - Treating GMO crops as permanently under suspicion — provisional approvals, emergency-use restrictions, mandatory labeling — means they never get a fair shot to prove themselves.
0.60% - Thirty years of GMO data shows no cancer spikes, no ecosystem destruction, no poisoned aquifers — apply the standard honestly, and GMO crops pass.
0.60% - No other agricultural tool responds to food supply crises as fast as GMO disease resistance and drought tolerance.
0.60% - A troubling application of GMO technology doesn't indict the entire field — just like one bad drug doesn't end all pharmaceutical research.
Sales of GMO should be unregulated.
40.00% - GMO regulation must be fixed to support broader societal goals.
40.00% - Subsidizing private GMO seed patents with public dollars is corporate welfare dressed up as agricultural research policy.
10.00% - GMO research needs more government support to ensure innovation benefits society
5.00% - GMO can protect crops vulnerable to climate change.
5.00% - No other agricultural tool responds to food supply crises as fast as GMO disease resistance and drought tolerance.
52.17% - No other agricultural tool responds to food supply crises as fast as GMO disease resistance and drought tolerance.
47.83% - Once a technology is understood, the next step is deploying it — that's how every agricultural advance from hybrid seed to tractors got adopted.
20.00% - GMO sales should be left to farmers and the market without additional regulation.
20.00% - Sales of GMO should be unregulated.
20.00% - GMO sales should proceed without additional regulatory burden beyond existing food safety.
20.00% - GMO sales should be allowed to operate without government meddling in farmers' decisions.
20.00% - GMO sales should be governed by ordinary food safety rules, not extra regulatory layers.
0.00% - Food Freedom: The Case Against Government Intervention in Markets