Daily Food & Ag 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.
GMO debate may hinder progress of RNA interference biotechnology in Europe
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The debate around genetically ...
Slate guts scare-mongering doc ‘That Sugar Film’ featured uncritically by NY Times
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
Possibility of GMOs reducing genetic diversity, resilience of wild populations causes concern
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many are concerned that GMOs will ...
As sea levels rise, GMO salt-tolerant crops could address urgent need
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sea rise, one of ...
Specter of Agent Orange haunts introduction of GMOs to Vietnam
When Vietnam moved economically from communism to capitalism in the 1980s, it enjoyed an agriculture boom that lifted millions from ...
Why the Millennial Generation might embrace GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The natural-foods craze has ...
Could non GMO hybrid wine grapes create a Napa Valley in South Dakota?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Wine grapes specially bred ...
Nassim Taleb escalates ‘boorish attacks’ on GMO science supporters
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Communicating science to lay ...
GMOs changed how pesticides used, cutting overall usage but raising health questions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMOs have been changing ...
Union of Concerned Scientists joins criticism of USRTK, PLoS on biotech science literacy “transparency”
UCS joins a growing list of independent groups criticizing Paul Thacker and Charles Seife for misrepresentations in their article savaging ...
China develops non-GMO vitamin enhanced “golden scallop” that could address malnutrition
Chinese scientists have developed the world's first golden scallop in what they say could be a major advancement in reducing ...
Greenpeace provokes India’s ire: Crumbling credibility and waning power of global activist power
Editor's Note: Greenpeace has led an aggressive campaign against GMOs in India, demanding that they be banned. It's mounted high ...
Bangladesh’s Bt brinjal, maligned by activists, reduces pesticide use, boosts farmer profits
Brinjal is a popular vegetable which is grown year round all over Bangladesh. The brinjal shoot and fruit borer is ...
Activist groups, USRTK have right to demand transparency from biotech scientists
The backlash against transparency is underway and is likely to inform how we interpret the scientific literature for years to come. In the ...
Can Golden Rice, other nutritionally enhanced crops, fulfill promise to reduce malnutrition?
Despite public health and humanitarian efforts, it is estimated that at least 3.1 million children die each year and 161 ...
Scotland accused of playing politics, subverting science with GMO ban
Scotland’s government has decided to prohibit the growing of genetically modified crops. Their main rationale is to avoid any possibility that premium ...
Australian senators support GMOs as environmentally friendly, scientifically sound
Australian Federal Senators have backed a motion supporting genetically modified (GM) crops for being an environmentally friendly farming technology supported by ...
Kenya to lift GMO ban to help fight hunger
The Kenyan government will lift the ban on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in two months, Deputy President William Ruto has ...
Can GMO super corals meet the challenge of global warming?
With the world’s coral reefs increasingly threatened by warmer and more acidic seas, scientists are selectively breeding corals to create ...
Media gets it wrong: There are no GMO peanuts
OLé peanut, a new Spanish peanut variety released earlier this year by the USDA Agricultural Research Service and the Oklahoma ...
GMO citrus resistant to greening disease successfully grown in Florida
Southern Gardens Citrus, a large Florida citrus growing and processing operation, is growing genetically modified fruit that’s resistant to the ...
Organs from transgenic pigs could address transplant organ shortage
Researchers have been shattering organ survival records in xenotransplantation, or between-species organ transplants. The researchers have kept a pig heart alive ...
Next generation GMOs? Monsanto experiments with modifying crops by spraying them with RNA
Using RNA interference technology, which temporarily turns off the activity of a gene, Monsanto thinks it has hit on an alternative to ...
Science fiction? Hollywood weighs in on GMOs
Actress and lifestyle guru Gwyneth Paltrow recently appeared on Capitol Hill to promote GMO labeling. We applaud her willingness to get involved in the political ...
GMOs protect farm laborers, reduce carbon emissions and are safe to eat.
Unsure about biotechnology? There’s a lot of misinformation out there. Although biotech can improve people’s lives, it can be hard to get ...
A short history of GMOs, from prehistoric times to today
Humans have been altering the genetics of organisms for over 30,000 years, but how did the practice of selective breeding ...
Genetically engineered bacteria could monitor water contamination, detect mining waste
A team of young scientists in Canada is developing a fascinating way to detect water contamination. Their box, called the ...
