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.
Why organic seedless watermelons could be considered GMOs–Or chemically-created mutants
Is a seedless watermelon, including those sold as organic, a GMO, a hybrid, or something else altogether—a chemically altered mutant? There is ...
U.S. regulators to blame for lack of progress in biopharming
Dr. Henry Miller’s cri de coeur is well-earned: he was the founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology (too ...
Anti-GMO Scotland bucks UK support for growing genetically engineered crops
New legislation which will give European Union member states a greater say over whether or not they grow genetically modified (GM) ...
Simplot’s Generation 2 Innate adds late blight resistance
Back in December, the USDA public comment period opened up for a next-generation transgenic potato variety developed by Simplot. The ...
South Australian farmers lobby against GM moratorium
Opponents have dismissed a new push to overturn a moratorium on genetically modified crops (GM) in South Australia. Grain Producers ...
New generation herbicide-tolerant soybeans, cotton gain USDA approval
Monsanto Co. received final U.S. approval on Thursday for herbicide-tolerant crops to be used with a new herbicide the company ...
Following ‘superbug’ genes in cattle could shed light on antibiotic resistant germs
Researchers at Colorado State University are investigating the weighty topic of antibiotic resistance – an issue with ramifications for global ...
Farm grown vs. wild salmon: Genetics offers gauge to sustainability, productivity comparisons
Hatchery salmon and their potential impact on wild populations have been a sticking point in ongoing discussions about seafood sustainability, ...
On GMO labeling: Are consumers getting label fatigue?
Shoppers are shelling out a lot of money for products they believe are good because of clever marketing, labeling, and ...
South’s original peanut provides genetic diversity
In one field just outside Charleston grows the South’s original peanut, long thought to be extinct but now primed for ...
Germany appears headed for complete GMO ban
After the European Parliament on Tuesday, 13 January passed a new Directive on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) in Europe, the ...
Farmers Union not on board with GM-Free Wales
The Welsh Government has been urged to firmly set out is position on genetically-modified crops following an European Parliament vote ...
Local food to eclipse organic, as consumers begin to doubt definition
New consumers continue to enter the organic category for the first time, but the health halo cast by the US ...
Chinese publish genome of Tibetan barley
Scientists from a genomics organisation in south China's Shenzhen City on January 13, 2015 published the first genetic map of ...
Consumers will pay more for GMOs with health benefits
Over the last years, various GM crops with health benefits have been developed in which genes, mostly originating from other ...
Poll: 40% of Americans concerned about GMO in foods; majority favors labeling
A majority of Americans support labeling of genetically modified foods, whether they care about eating them or not. But fewer ...
GM banana trial delayed in Iowa due to shipping issues
A controversial plan to have Iowa State University students eat genetically modified bananas has been delayed, apparently because of issues ...
Europe’s GMO compromise: Is the glass half full or half empty?
Is the glass half full or half empty? Today the European Parliament passed proposals to allow EU member states to ...
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill bows to anti-GMO protestors, revises 6th grade textbook
A sixth-grade science textbook has a caused a dustup over what anti-GMO parents content is a one-sided presentation of GMOs ...
Seed companies feed home gardeners’ concerns about GMO seeds
A couple of seed catalogs came during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and I put them aside ...
Reflections on why Australian organic farmer’s GMO contamination court case flopped
As Schopenhauer once said, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it ...
Idaho farmers divided on GMO labeling
Some Idaho farmers would like the Legislature to pass a bill to forestall a statewide initiative that would require labeling ...
Monsanto perfecting GMO wheat: Are the public and farmers ready?
The facility has dozens of rooms just like it. But inside this particular 10-foot-by-20-foot growth chamber at Monsanto’s global research ...
How dubious research critical of GMOs and glyphosate gets published
I’ve added the journal Interdisciplinary Toxicology (interTOX) to my list. The journal is associated with the Slovak Toxicology Society (SETOX) ...
Hawaii’s GMO lesson: Public interest research future of GE technology
If you read the social media, you’d believe that genetic modification of crops is being done almost solely by the ...
New British minister backs GM crops as more eco-friendly
Genetically modified food should be grown in Britain because it is more ‘eco-friendly’, the Environment Secretary claimed yesterday. Publicly backing ...
New EU GMO approval system could open door to Britain, other countries approving more GE crops
You could call it a victory for common sense. The European Parliament is expected to confirm an astonishing departure from ...
