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.
Kevin Folta deconstructs Food Babe’s response to students in scathing fashion
Last week, a group of food science students from the IFT Student Association (IFTSA) wrote a letter to the "Food Babe", Vani ...
Urban consumers should pay more for lower-yielding non-GMO crops
Washington Farm Bureau first vice president Aaron Golladay lives on a family run farming operation in central Washington State, near ...
Will new Innate potato, with no ‘foreign’ DNA, satisfy anti-GMO critics?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in November approved for commercial planting a potato genetically engineered to have reduced bruising ...
Recent “win” opening door to growing GM crops in Britain not really a victory
The European Parliament's decision on GM in January was hailed by the pro-GM campaign in the UK as a great victory ...
US consumers say they want GMO labelling but only 56 percent trust labels
The dots don’t seem to connect: Consumers cast a dubious, untrusting eye about the legitimacy of packaged-food labels, and yet ...
TEDx talk: How the organic movement became anti-GMO
Rob Saik, professional agrologist, certified agriculture consultant and founder of Agri-Trend, spoke at TEDx Red Deer, Alberta on GMOs. “Do ...
Antibiotic-resistant DNA sequences found downwind of feedlots
There have been many concerns raised in recent years about the overuse of antibiotics on farms, but the effect such ...
Climate change could cripple Midwest but genetic technologies could offset damage
Climate change could hammer the Des Moines and Iowa economies in the decades ahead, as spiking temperatures dramatically reduce crop ...
Two markets for dietary supplements: Non-GMO and ‘made with genetic technology’
Opponents of the labeling of genetically modified ingredients have spent millions to defeat the various state ballot measures on the ...
Ex Food Babe staffer exposé? Does Vani Hari admit to spinning science for money and fame?
An interesting and revealing exchange with Vani Hari, the self-proclaimed Food Babe, began with an open letter published last week ...
Cheap food? Thank GMOs
Today, about one-in-eight people across the world do not have enough food to eat. Addressing this problem of food insecurity ...
False balance between public scientists and non-expert activists on orange crisis and GMOs
I'm so grateful to any author that takes the time to write about citrus greening disease and its potential solutions ...
Breeders work to mainstream genetic diversity of potato
Around the country, determined plant breeders, farmers, and chefs are joining forces to reinvent the potato and the transform the ...
Biology of flavorful orange juice
A “so what” story. That’s how I would label the enticingly titled “Juicy Secrets” investigation of “premium” orange juice by ...
Oregon governor seeks authority to establish ‘control areas’ for GMO crops
A bill proposed by Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber seeks to expand the authority of state farm regulators over genetically engineered ...
Video: Bill Gates advocates for GMOs in Brussels
Bill and Melinda Gates spoke to a Brussels audience, which didn’t appear shocked by their endorsement of GMO crops. The ...
Moms learn about GMOs on Illinois farm tours
When she read about an Illinois Farm Families field tour, Heather Guido applied. In May, she and other women in ...
Biotech crops show global promise but suffer from restrictive regulations
A paper by Calestous Juma and Katherine Gordon at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs argues that although many transgenic crops ...
Trade complicates handling of GMO crops, GM labeling could, too
The use of biotechnology has made things more complicated for seed companies, grain handlers and farmers. Charles Hurburgh, Iowa State ...
Scientists identify plant traits for crop improvements using in vitro cultures
Humans have been making use of plants for as long as there have been humans and plants. The actual cultivation ...
Kansas farmers join GM corn lawsuit against Syngenta
You may have seen the ads on TV from lawyers looking for small town farmers. That's because Kansas farmers are ...
Consumers in global survey consider GMO-free foods very important
Asked what health attributes are very important when buying food, consumers in a global survey by Nielsen ranked “all-natural” and ...
Genome editing is future of biotech
I asked some of those social thought leaders for their predictions of what we can expect from biotech and biopharma ...
Orange juice might be missing at breakfast unless farmers try GMOs
Everybody loves Florida orange juice. Since its emergence in the late 1940s, the sunny beverage has survived hurricanes and anti-sugar diet ...
Chinese, New Zealander researchers look for year-round breeding genes in sheep
In 2013, the Chinese government announced its intention to achieve self- sufficiency in red meat production by 2020. This announcement ...
Nutrition student challenges American nutrition societies to enter conversation over GMOs
NOTE: This letter was written by Kevin Klatt, a PhD student at Cornell University studying molecular nutrition. The National Academies ...
Consumers willing to pay more for GMOs with health benefits
Genetically modified crops with an increased vitamin and/or mineral content have large potential to improve public health, but their availability for ...
