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.
Non-GMO sales skyrocketed in 2014
In the battle surrounding GMO labeling, 2014 was a huge year. A measure was narrowly defeated in Oregon -- and one ...
How Food Babe mobilized an army against GMOs and chemicals
Over the past three years, Vani Hari has rapidly become one of the most popular voices on nutrition in mainstream ...
In wake of new EU GMO restrictions, Wales proposes further tightening
On January 13, the European Union (EU) voted in favour of amending legislation in Europe that will allow Member States ...
Is there gap in federal regulation of newer GMOs?
Critics say a loophole in federal regulations for genetically engineered crops will backfire against biotech companies. Under current rules, USDA ...
Longshot federal GMO labeling bill reintroduced: ‘GM crops force farmers to buy more pesticides’
Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut along with Rep. Pete DeFazio, D-Ore., held a press ...
USDA grants approval of nonbrowning Arctic apple
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Healthy Inspection Service (APHIS) announced its decision to deregulate the first ...
Truth about small farmers: They can’t make a living
I wondered how many small farmers, like myself, actually made a living. I looked into national statistics. Only the largest ...
NY farmers could receive additional legal protection from GMO seed lawsuits
Farmers in New York state would be better protected against lawsuits from biotech companies if genetically modified crops inadvertently grow ...
Will gene-edited products be considered GMOs?
The genome engineering methods currently used, particularly in mammalian cells, are difficult and inefficient. This has led scientists to search ...
China jumpstarts GM, worries about ‘foreign domination’
China does not want its genetically modified food (GM) market to be dominated by foreign products (and thus foreign companies) ...
Kevin Folta on Biogate: It’s a ‘gotcha’ taxpayer-funded fishing expedition
Last week I received a FOIA request that all of my emails bearing certain terms were going to be obtained ...
No climate benefit to biofuel crops
Nearly all of the studies that have been used to promote the deployment of biofuels over the past two decades ...
So can we really feed the world? Yes — and here’s how
Over the past six months I’ve been trying to figure out how we can feed ourselves sustainably and equitably without ...
Food sovereignty group sues Ghanian government over GM crop trials
Civil Society Group, Food Sovereignty Ghana has sued Government at the Human Rights Court, seeking an interim injunction on the ...
China plans to scale up cultivation of homegrown potatoes, likely investing in genetic tech
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture started the year with an awkwardly named but nevertheless resonating event — at the "Potato ...
Cloned white Angus could double beef production in 10 years
Dr. James West, associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University and chief science officer of CAG, has developed a way ...
Massachusetts lawmakers to put GM labeling bill on governor’s desk this session
A food fight is shaping up between advocates clamoring to require labels on products that include genetically modified ingredients and ...
Bangladesh to adopt GM cotton in 2016
The government will introduce genetically modified (GM) cotton in 2016 to increase production of Bangladesh's key raw material for textiles, ...
Washington Post: Denying scientific consensus on GMOs victimizes developing countries
But the biggest gap between public opinion and scientific consensus in the United States is not in the realm of ...
China increasing support of GMO research, public education
Research and commercialization of genetically modified organisms (GMO) are expected to gain momentum in China after years of GM crop ...
Center for Food Safety will defend Jackson County, Oregon in GMO lawsuit
Local anti-GMO forces celebrated a Friday ruling allowing them to join Jackson County in defense of last year’s voter-passed ban ...
Assessing impact of India’s 5-year GMO Bt brinjal ban
Monday was the fifth anniversary of the imposition of a moratorium on the commercialization of genetically modified brinjal by the ...
Rebranding genetic modification as ‘ethical crop breeding’
Genetic modification (GM) should be re-branded as ‘ethical crop breeding’ with the patented technology used for ‘the greater good’ rather than ...
Keith Kloor on Bill Maher, vaccines and GMOs: “Nobody makes liberals look like asses more than Maher”
Bill Maher, the comedian and host of his own HBO show, is God’s gift to conservatives. Nobody makes liberals look ...
What turned the organic movement against GMOs?
The idea behind the organic movement has some virtues: using fewer chemicals that might be more dangerous, reducing logistics and ...
Syngenta now faces 360 lawsuits from US farmers
Farmers and farm businesses in 20 states have now filed more than 360 lawsuits against agricultural chemicals-maker Syngenta, and hundreds ...
Genetic engineering needs space from regulators
The newly approved, genetically engineered “Innate” brand of potato is quite remarkable. It is bruise resistant and contains 50 to ...
