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.
GMOs need to focus on the consumer not the producer
British consumers will only embrace genetically modified foods when traits are developed which provide them with significant benefits, Justin King, ...
Video: New GMO labeling bill introduced in California
Dr. Ruth Kava, the American Council on Science and Health's (ACSH) Senior Fellow in Nutrition, discusses the new bill GMO ...
How to concoct a conspiracy theory about vaccines, GMOs, climate science and other controversial issues
A case study. 1. Find something online that is related to your subject. 2. Cherry-pick partial quotes that seem to support your position (here, ...
5 Surprises in the USDA’s study of GE crops
The USDA's study of genetically engineered crops in the United States is a pretty dry and unsurprising document, but when read ...
Video: Feelings, Facts, Food and GMOs
Andrew Revkin led a Google Hangout discussion with Shelley Boris, a chef committed to conscientious cuisine and author of “Fresh ...
On Maui anti-GMO tour, Don Huber refuses to engage scientists on questionable glyphosate claims
Dr. Don Huber spoke in Maui as part of an event that kicked off a political campaign to ban genetically ...
Will other companies follow Chipotle’s anti-GMO lead?
Chipotle's anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) mission coincided with a 30% jump in fourth quarter profits, and adaptable restaurant chains may soon ...
Middle schoolers say, “Of course GMOs are not harmful, but maybe…”
History laughs at the losing teams whose scientific theories crumble under the weight of evidence. The Sun orbits the Earth ...
Video: Mark Lynas says, “GMOs are green”
Mark Lynas, a UK-based environmentalist and former anti-biotech activist, spoke to Real Agriculture editor Lyndsey Smith before giving the keynote address at ...
USDA report says GM crops show mix of benefits, concerns
After more than 15 years of using genetically modified crops, U.S. farmers are continuing to see an array of benefits, ...
Latest on the latest anti-GMO scare: Dangerous plant GMO is in your blood
The truth is that there may or may not be plant DNA in your blood. The single research paper making ...
Cornell scientist: Exaggerated caution slows adoption of GM crops
In normal science, risk has a precise but deceptively simple meaning: risk equals the probability of some hazard. Anyone booking ...
Maui citizens group pushes for GMO moratorium
Come November, the citizens of Maui County could be voting on a temporary suspension of all genetically modified crop production ...
The promise of GMOs evaluated: Herbicides
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
GMO 2.0: New generation of blight-resistant foods
Blight-resistant vegetables could be great for farmers, as well as for the environment. Potatoes are sprayed against blight up to ...
Southern sugar cane industry, threatened by deadly fungus, look to GMO solution
Brown rust fungus poses a serious threat to Louisiana's nearly $1 billion sugarcane industry. Thanks to funding from the American ...
Whole Foods under microscope for promoting pseudoscience on GMOs, health
A significant portion of what Whole Foods sells is based on simple pseudoscience. And sometimes that can spill over into ...
European scientists on African mission to break biotech logjam
Africa is expected to be the next target of GM food companies, as European scientists and policymakers travel to Ethiopia ...
How GMOs saved my life
GMOs weren’t personal until I almost died. After one ambulance ride and three days of wearing a heart monitor with ...
More risk from conventional breeding than with genetic modification
Fred Gould, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, used Lenape potatoes as an example of risk and uncertainty. Often, people frame ...
The Promise of GMOs: Do GM crops encourage conservation tillage?
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
GMOs in fem care products can kill you? Not if you follow the science
Last week, the tweets were flying furiously in a "Right to Know" campaign regarding fem care products (for more information, ...
Cereals reformulated to be non-GMO less nutritious than GMO versions
Post Foods’ new non-GMO Grape Nuts no longer include vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B12 or vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), while ...
Agricultural scientist Steve Savage: Am I A “Shill For Big Ag?
Because I blog, speak, and comment in support of various agricultural technologies, I am routinely accused of being a "shill ...
Green’s GM war costing millions of lives
The Soil Association (SA), Britain's foremost organic food organization, is indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of children because ...
The Promise of GMOs: Removing cancer causing mycotoxins from our food supply
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
General Mills says GMO Cheerios not boosting sales, ‘no’ to formulating more GMO free products
Ken Powell, the chairman and chief executive officer of General Mills, Inc. has a simple answer for anyone wondering if ...
