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.
If activists really want to avoid GMOs, everyday life would shut down
Since 89% of all corn produced in the United States is genetically engineered, if activists were truly committed to their cause, maybe ...
GMO labeling laws keep failing. Here’s why we can expect more
After efforts to label genetically engineered foods failed in Oregon and Colorado, I asked Stuart Elway, president of the Seattle-based polling ...
GMO farmers guilty until proven innocent: Monsanto to challenge Maui crop ban
A ban on the growing of GMO crops by Maui County voters by a scant 1077 votes—less than .5 percent of the total—will ...
Pamela Ronald: Why GMOs are crucial in an era of global warming
Virginia Gewin, a writer with Beacon Journal, spoke with Pamela Ronald, a rice geneticist at the University of California at ...
Over-regulation of ag biotechnology squanders billions of dollars
The big agribusiness companies have achieved “regulatory capture” of government agencies–but not in the way that many people think. At ...
Food challenges require overhaul of global food system not GMOs
Over the next 50 years, climate change will transform the world in ways we have only begun to imagine. Humans ...
Could genetics convert food crops to perennials, revolutionizing farming?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s a cycle nearly ...
Battered by multiple defeats, GMO label backers vow to continue
Oregon and Colorado became the third and fourth liberal states in the West to reject a GMO labeling measure. A similar ...
Colorado liberal cognescenti reject anti-GMO extremism
Boulder is ... home to several world-renowned scientific organizations, as well as the University of Colorado-Boulder. It’s worth noting that ...
No Love in Boulder for Colorado’s GMO Labeling Proposition
Boulder is ... home to several world-renowned scientific organizations, as well as the University of Colorado-Boulder. It’s worth noting that ...
Plants have sex, and many even have sex chromosomes
Plants have sex? Yes, they totally do. Plants have female reproductive organs (carpels) and male reproductive organs (stamens), but several ...
Organic farming best to address world hunger
This op-ed was written by Anne Lappe, a writer and anti-GMO activist. Her current project, Food MythBusters is a collaborative ...
GMO meta-study: Pesticide use down 37%, yields up 22%, profits rise 68%
A meta-study published this week in PLOS ONE—A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops--crunched data from 147 studies ...
GMO label law crushed in Colorado, loses narrowly in Oregon
Two of the countries most liberal states appear to be rejecting measures that would require mandatory labeling of some foods made ...
Maui voters approve moratorium on GMO crops, court fight looms
With almost all votes counted, Maui voters appear to have approved an initiative that bans GMO cultivation in Maui County. The still ...
Forget weather, seed helicopters can predict maple syrup production
Eyeing the weather to understand spring sugar yields has been a rule of thumb but a new paper provides a ...
Cameroon on path to introduce GMO Bt cotton
Cameroon is poised to become the tenth country to grow GMO cotton--a cotton variety modified to express the natural insecticide, the bacterium ...
Got GMO milk?
Bioengineers in the US are developing the world’s first artificial cow's milk made from genetically engineered yeast in an effort ...
Golden Rice faces ideological and technical hurdles
In south and southeast Asian nations such as India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines, rice is the primary food source, ...
Open letter: Slow to adopt GM crops, Europe becoming ag backwater
More than twenty of Europe's most prominent scientists issued a joint letter making the case for embracing crop biotechnology--or face ...
Pet supplement company claims natural alternative to livestock antibiotics?
Avigen, a 'wellness' company which promotes antioxidant supplements for pets, says it has done what science cannot - they have ...
3 billion malnourished Asians ask Greenpeace: Why deny us vitamin enhanced rice?
Many GMO opponents are targeting the development of Golden Rice--a variation on the Asian staple enhanced with Vitamin A that ...
Indian NGO leader: Don’t lift Indian moratorium on Bt eggplant and other GM crops
The Indian government is currently debating whether to life an 18-month freeze on trials of 13 genetically modified food crops, including the ...
100 percent boost in tomato yields with new genetic toolkit
Tomatoes are some of the most genetically modified foods in history. What were tiny, strangely-shaped fruits the size of a ...
$25 million for “Factor GMO” study—Are the results pre-determined?
What anti-GMO activists are billing as the most expensive and comprehensive longterm study of the impact of GMO crops and ...
Downside to GMOs: Yields have become so good, they exceed processing capacity
Organic food should catapult itself to being a $105 billion industry by next year. Times are good, they have a ...
Vermont Rube Goldberg-like GMO labeling law exempts GMO filled natural supplements
During the 1920s, the cartoonist Rube Goldberg became immensely popular churning out cartoons that depicted devices that performed simple tasks in ...
