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Survey respondents were queried regarding whether or not they hold
concerns under the following social domains: impact on human health,
environmental consequences, private sector ownership of the technologies,
and general moral/ethical issues. The tables below summarize the
response breakdowns within each of these domains. Data were analyzed
separately by technology application (rice, tobacco), with frequencies
further broken down by gender.
Overall, more respondents expressed concerns associated with GMO
rice headed for the food chain as compared to pharmaceutical-producing
transgenic tobacco. And, more respondents were concerned about GMOs
negatively affecting human health than they were for the other concern
domains. Concern over environmental issues followed health concerns
in prevalence, while moral/ethical issues appeared to be the least
weighty on the minds of the respondents. Females seemed to be least
familiar with issues involving corporate ownership of the technologies,
as indicated by their frequency of don't know (DK) responses; males
appear to be least certain of their feelings toward environmental
impacts.
Within each crop, response patterns for males differ significantly
from those exhibited by females (with the exception of moral/ethical
issues under tobacco). Across the board, greater percentages of
females indicated that they hold concerns, regardless of application
type or concern domain. Moreover, greater percentages of females
generally indicated that they did not know if they hold a concern
in that domain as compared to male respondents.
| Are you personally concerned that producing
rice/tobacco like this might negatively affect human health? |
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43.5 |
59.3 |
53.8 |
46.0 |
27.1 |
33.6 |
10.5 |
13.6 |
12.6 |
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41.9 |
56.2 |
50.0 |
49.4 |
32.9 |
39.5 |
8.6 |
10.9 |
10.0 |
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| Are you concerned that
changing rice/tobacco this way might negatively affect the environment? |
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32.9 |
46.1 |
41.5 |
51.1 |
34.0 |
39.9 |
16.0 |
19.9 |
18.6 |
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31.1 |
44.9 |
39.4 |
52.8 |
39.3 |
44.6 |
16.1 |
15.8 |
15.9 |
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| Are you personally concerned about
companies owning the rights to genetically engineered rice/tobacco? |
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36.7 |
41.2 |
39.6 |
51.1 |
37.1 |
42.0 |
12.2 |
21.7 |
18.4 |
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24.0 |
32.1 |
28.9 |
61.4 |
43.5 |
50.6 |
14.6 |
24.4 |
20.5 |
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| Do you have moral or ethical concerns
about the genetic engineering of rice/tobacco? |
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21.1 |
33.6 |
29.2 |
74.7 |
58.6 |
64.2 |
4.2 |
7.8 |
6.6 |
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21.7 |
27.2 |
25.0 |
70.0 |
62.2 |
65.3 |
8.2 |
10.6 |
9.7 |
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