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.
Columbia Journalism Review: Anti-GMO group’s records request threatens independent research
U.S. Right to Know, based in Oakland, Calif., has asked at least four universities to turn over all correspondence since ...
Why do we trust science but not GMO crops?
Our daily lives are quite used to scientific innovations that we trust and use—mobile phone, radio, television, electricity, and even ...
Australia’s organic farm group warns lawsuits will follow lifting of GM bans
The lifting of bans on genetically modified (GM) canola in NSW and Victoria will trigger a landslide of lawsuits from ...
Burkina Faso’s Bt cotton success may spur Nigeria biosafety law revamp
Burkina Faso’s farmers will be cultivating BT Cotton for the eight season this year and they have benefited significantly from ...
In push for labeling GMOs, why not label mutagensis?
A federal bill that would mandate the labeling of genetically engineered ingredients in food or beverages sold in the U.S ...
Glyphosate not harmful to humans, according to food science
Two weeks ago, I girded my loins and wrote a column endorsing genetically engineered food. The spate of fist-shaking, chest-thumping ...
Technique used for GM mosquitos could be used to target agricultural pests
Back in the 1950s, two American scientists came up with a revolutionary idea to eliminate a longstanding scourge of livestock ...
GMO farmer borrows from organic soil management practices
Based on organic farming principles, regenerative agriculture builds soil health for continued use while cutting down on greenhouse gases. Based ...
Is organic grass-fed beef healthier than grain fed?
Almost always, when I talk to scientists and farmers about food supply issues — whether it’s farm size, organic methods, ...
Why people become skeptics of GMOs, vaccines and climate change
We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge—from the safety of fluoride and vaccines to the reality ...
Russian outfit plans to spend $25 million to secretly study GMOs
Back in November, a group that has campaigned against GMOs in Russia announced that it was going to do a ...
Union of Concerned Scientists join criticism of anti-GMO activist ‘attack’ on university researchers
The legal attack hit Kevin Folta in early February. After receiving a FOIA request from U.S. Right to Know—a nonprofit ...
Biotech could blunt predicted devastation of climate change
A study of wheat yields by 53 researchers on six continents, including a Kansas State University professor, has found that ...
Food Babe’s shocking news: Food has chemicals in it!
“I couldn’t believe there was beaver’s ass in my vanilla ice cream, coal tar in my mac and cheese, yoga ...
Genomics holds potential for improving nutrition in crops
Renowned agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan said on Friday that making a hunger and malnutrition-free society should be the ultimate goal ...
Obama wants single food safety agency
To understand America’s fragmented food safety inspection system, consider a slice of frozen pizza. The pepperoni is examined by the ...
Indian government ‘decisive’ in changed GMO stance
On a fenced plot not far from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home, a field of mustard is in full ...
US biotech groups lobby EU on 13 lagging GMO approvals
A consortium of U.S. commodity, seed and biotech groups has passed a letter to the European Health & Food Safety ...
Hershey drops bioengineered sugar from products
Just a day after competitor Nestle USA announced a similar commitment, the Hershey Co. said it will begin transitioning to ...
Orthorexia: Food Babe’s eating disorder
“There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.” – Vani Hari A.K.A. Food Babe Everything is ...
Anti-GMO fervor forcing ag companies to focus innovation on non-GMO technologies
The whole concept of genetically modified organisms is a political hot potato. You don’t need me to remind you of ...
Disgust over ‘unnaturalness’ of GMOs prime reason for opposition
Feelings of disgust are often immune to rationality. And with good reason: evolutionarily, disgust is an incredibly adaptive, life-saving reaction. We find ...
GM grass for dairy cows needs commercial partner, consumer acceptance
Some Victorian dairy farmers want the opportunity to grow genetically modified ryegrass. However they concede community acceptance of GM is ...
Greenpeace acts like corporations in agenda to discredit corporations
Recently, the issue of the amount of sugar in soft drinks was in the headlines. In the ensuing discussion, there were ...
Fruit tree gene could prevent GM cross-pollination with other plants
Genetically modified crops have long drawn fire from environmentalists, who worry that there could be contamination of organic food or ...
Rep. DeFazio misleadingly links monarch butterfly decline solely to GMOs
Monarch butterflies are an unexpected victim of the widespread adoption of genetically modified crops, Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said last ...
Will Ugandan farmers get to plant GM banana?
Bill Gates will be sharing his vision of how technology will revolutionize life for the world's poor by 2030 by ...
