Daily Food & Agriculture Digest
Every day, the staff of the Genetic Literacy Project scours the Web for stories on a range of agricultural and food issues, including the GMO debate, conventional and organic farming, regulations, new breeding technologies and sustainability. We publish excerpts of those stories and encourage our readers to visit the original publications for the complete stories.
Top 10 GMO answers that consumers want
The results of a new national survey, commissioned by GMO Answers and the Council for Biotechnology Information, identify the leading questions consumers ...
GM-free family farms can fight global food crisis
We have a global food crisis and it is getting worse. Transformative changes are needed in our food, agriculture and ...
Debate over GM crops heats up in Tanzania
Pelum Tanzania Country Coordinator, Mr Donat Senzia told 'Daily News' that local activists opposing genetic engineering are agents of European ...
When informed, Philippine farmers ‘keen’ on GM eggplant
A study contends that 96 percent of Filipino farmers are willing to shift to a genetically modified eggplant and are willing to ...
Europe’s GM crop regulations are an outdated ‘roadblock’
Despite the absence of any evidence GM crops pose an intrinsic hazard, in Europe only one has been approved since ...
Scientist challenges Hawaiin activist claim that GMOs increase use of toxic chemicals
On February 27, Paul Achitoff of the group Earth Justice opened an op-ed in Civil Beat with the emotive claim that “the ...
Going ‘GMO free’ fails to boost Cheerio’s sales
Plain old Cheerios are no longer made with genetically modified ingredients, but the switch hasn't yet translated to a boost ...
China’s ‘Dr. Oz’ stokes anti-GMO feelings
Cui Yongyuan, a former host of China's state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), has become known for challenging the authorities ...
Traces of GMOs in food shipments cloud trade ties
More than a dozen countries across the world are blocking, turning away or even destroying shipments of foodgrains and other ...
Q&A with Mark Lynas on GMOs
January 2013, amid a chorus of controversy, Mark Lynas—high profile environmental writer, activist, and researcher—publicly renounced and apologized for his ...
I grow GMOs, and I’m not ashamed or embarrassed
Yesterday, I testified before the Maryland State Senate Committee on Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee. I was speaking against SB778 "Genetically ...
Germany still undecided about GMOs
Germany's government coalition has still to decide policy toward cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), German Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt ...
Q&A with Mark Lynas on GMOs
January 2013, amid a chorus of controversy, Mark Lynas—high profile environmental writer, activist, and researcher—publicly renounced and apologized for his ...
Trace findings of GMOs in food shipments cloud trade ties
More than a dozen countries across the world are blocking, turning away or even destroying shipments of foodgrains and other ...
UK Scientists call for new GM crop trials
A new report on genetically modified (GM) crops, commissioned by the prime minister, calls for more UK field trials and ...
How genetic engineering can save the iconic American Chestnut tree
An estimated 3 billion to 6 billion American chestnut trees once covered forests spreading from southern Mississippi to central Maine ...
France bans GM maize
France's agriculture ministry on Saturday banned the sale, use and cultivation of Monsanto's MON 810 genetically modified maize, the only ...
GMO food is safe, labeled or not
I am the dean of the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. I tell all our research ...
Consumers and GMOs: Adrift in a sea of misinformation
Last month, I had the opportunity to present to a group of registered dietitians and nutritionists at the Alberta Milk ...
Challenge highlights flaws in Hawaii’s anti-GMO law
Last week a Hawaii state judge issued an injunction halting enforcement of a key component of a new anti-GMO law. The judge ...
China decreases GM research funding
Chinese research funding into genetically modified organisms (GMO) has fallen by 80 percent in the past four years, according to ...
New GMO labeling bill proposed for California
Back when Prop 37 was voted down by California residents in 2012, it felt like a missed opportunity. Here was ...
Vitamin A enhanced Golden Rice opponents should be held accountable for health problems
By 2002, Golden Rice was technically ready to go. Animal testing had found no health risks. Syngenta, which had figured out how ...
General Mills turns to ‘Raja Of The Country Of World Peace’ to certify its costlier, non-GMO Cheerios
Recently, cereal makers General Mills and Post announced that they had reformulated their flagship brands (Cheerios and Grape Nuts, respectively) to avoid ...
GMO and Indian farmer suicide backgrounder
The claim that the introduction of GM crops in India has caused an increase in farmer suicides was not based ...
If Seralini’s study is valid, he should be able to publish it in legit journal
The 2012 work by Seralini et al has long been retracted, and months later friends and admirers of Prof Seralini still ...
‘Precautionary Principle’ justifies GMO bans, restrictions
If you want to know where someone stands on health and environment there can be few better barometers than their ...
