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.
Broadening coalition supports federal pre-emption of piecemeal state GMO labeling laws
A broadening coalition of 29 U.S. organizations is urging Congress to develop federal standards to guide the labeling of food ...
Gene identified that may make it easier to engineer plants
A recent discovery could lead to easier genetic modification of plant varieties considered recalcitrant to standard methods, including varieties of ...
Monsarno (aka Monsanto) makes an appearance on the ‘Simpsons’
On Sunday's episode of "The Simpsons," Monsanto — in a plot line surely not endorsed by the company — is the ...
Triple-threat GM rice protects against drought, salty soils and lack of fertilizer
For the first time, a single strain of genetically modified rice has been developed to handle drought, salty soils and ...
Another farmer’s response to Chipotle’s agriculture take down
In the boardrooms of Madison Avenue, they call it “values branding”: a marketing strategy in which a company tries to ...
Can a GMO and non-GMO coexistence policy work in the US?
They don’t get along like peas in a pod, but farmers who plant genetically modified crops need to coexist with ...
Syngenta halts sales of new GMO corn seed in Canada
Syngenta AG said on Monday it had halted commercial sales in Canada of corn seed containing a new and controversial genetically ...
China wants to develop its own GMOs
China has long faced unfavorable food math: It feeds a fifth of the world’s population on a seventh of its ...
In Hawaii, Big Island judge issues restraining order blocking new GMO law
The battle over so-called GMOs took another turn in a Hilo courtroom last Friday. At issue is a law that requires ...
The people behind GMO papayas
Last August, I was invited to speak about genetically engineered crops at a GMO Summit organized by the Hawai’i Crop ...
Julie Borlaug, daughter of ‘Green Revolution’ founder, says biotech necessary to fight hunger
In her address at the 9th annual Ag Issues Forum in San Antonio, Julie Borlaug, granddaughter of Nobel Peace prize laureate ...
Push to label GMOs in Florida
In Florida there's a renewed push to label our food that contains genetically modified organisms or GMO's. Some say consumers ...
With risks and rewards, GMOs are here to stay
I recently learned my kids’ favorite cereal, Cheerios, is full of GMO ingredients. Learning this made me wonder how common ...
Pesticides in paradise?
Many Kauai locals have been outraged to discover that their island paradise is also home to a proliferating genetically engineered ...
Another Hawaii papaya farmer sues to block anti-GMO restrictions
Big Island Farmer Delan "Rusty" Perry says he resisted planting genetically modified plants at first, but after the Ring Spot ...
In conflict with GMO farmers, do organic farmers seek special treatment
March 3, 2014 story from Reuters by Carey Gillam presents claims by organic farmers that the federal government needs to step in to ...
Cameroon currently testing GMOs to increase cotton production
According to a report by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) revealed by Commodaafrica, “seven African ...
Oregon punts GMO label bill but other initiatives abound
For the third time, the Oregon Legislature has punted on a bill centered on the labeling of genetically modified food ...
What would a world without GMOs look like? You might be surprised
We had a little thought experiment in mind: what if the activists got their wish? What would a world without ...
China’s leadership encourages GMO farming
As China’s leadership pushes more rapid urbanization to drive economic growth, the fate of the country’s farmlands is once more ...
Anti-GMO activists have the ‘right to be manipulated’
The list of supermarkets, companies and restaurants hopping aboard the anti-GMO train keeps growing. Last year Whole Foods and Chipotle ...
Hawaii County GM papaya grower challenges GMO/pesticide restriction ban
An unnamed farmer filed a lawsuit seeking relief from requirements of Hawaii County’s recently enacted ban on genetically modified crops ...
Latest twists in the Seralini saga
Dr. Gilles-Eric Séralini, whose controversial research reporting genetically modified corn causes cancer in mammalian species (published in Food and Chemical Toxicology and ...
Podcast: GLP’s Jon Entine interviewed on Vancouver’s CKNW
A new poll shows that the majority of British Columbians aren't too keen on genetically modified foods. Many of them ...
EU countries moving to compromise that could open door to more GM crops
A majority of EU member countries backed a compromise agreement on GMO authorization which maintains an EU-wide approval scheme but ...
Agricultural economist challenges Iowa farmer’s claim that GMO corn disliked by cows, causes animal health problems
The Huffington post recently ran a story about Howard Vlieger, one Iowa farmer who became skeptical of effects of GMOs on his animal ...
How did Monsanto become the ‘evil face’ of GMOs?
Over the past decade, Monsanto has become a pop cultural bogeyman, the face of corporate evil. The company and its ...
