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.
Eugene, Oregon editorial: GMO labeling would provide information consumers want
Since 2002, concern about GMO products has gained traction across Oregon. Earlier this year, voters in two rural, conservative counties ...
Bio-engineered yogurt could make colonoscopies obsolete
A spoonful of yogurt could soon offer a cheap and simple way to screen for colorectal cancer. Sangeeta Bhatia, a ...
Whole Earth’s Stewart Brand says consumer embrace of ‘healthier’ GM foods inevitable
Picture a parent roaming the supermarket aisles in 2050, scanning labels carefully for the all-important words “genetically modified ingredients”—to make ...
As Nigerian population explodes, GMOs languish in political purgatory
Officials of the Nigerian Society for Microbiology (NSM) have alerted the Federal Government to brace up to the challenge of ...
New UN food czar: Need small farms, not ‘industrial ag’ to feed the world
Modern industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, due to the impacts of overlapping environmental and ecological crises ...
Consumer Reports claims mandatory GMO labels won’t raise food prices, ignoring research
Opponents of GE labeling laws cite high labeling costs from some published studies. Consumers Union and other labeling proponents cite ...
4 concerns mandatory GMO labels don’t address
This election season, there are initiatives on the ballot in Colorado and Oregon to label foods made with the help ...
Genetic basis for Monarch butterfly’s migration uncovered
The monarch butterfly is one of the most iconic insects in the world, best known for its distinct orange and ...
Story of Darwinian evolution, as told by coffee plants
Charles Darwin did a fine job of showing why his theory of evolution explained the living world better than any ...
Video: Colorado farmers divided over GMO labeling bill
The Palisade and Grand Junction Chambers of Commerce have both come out in opposition to proposition 105, citing the negative ...
Critics say new multi herbicide resistant GMO crops will exacerbate ‘superweed’ problem
Move over, Roundup Ready crops. After gaining USDA approval last week, new generation of genetically modified corn and soybeans is ...
US subsidizes $125 million of organic farming research and conservation
The United States Department of Agriculture plans to announce that it will spend $52 million to support local and regional ...
California hippie engages battle on behalf of GMOs
While many anti-GMO folk support the scientific consensus on climate change, they belittle these same science institutions by denying the ...
Kenyan farmer wants the best crop tech for Africa
To many people around the world, the cassava is an exotic crop that they have never eaten. Or so they ...
Beijing kicks off campaign to improve GMOs image in China
China's government has kicked off a media campaign in support of genetically modified crops, as it battles a wave of ...
African scientists engineering genetically modified livestock vaccines
Agricultural scientists in different parts of Africa have been engaged in application of biotechnology mainly for developing improved crop varieties ...
Are there better alternatives than genetic engineering to develop drought resistant crops?
In the late-1990s, scientists Russell Rodriguez and Regina Redman were conducting research in Yellowstone National Park when they made a ...
Tenderer meat? More nutritious milk? Genome editing targets improving livestock
Scientists are developing a new technology called genome editing they believe will revitalize the concept of genetically modified livestock since ...
War of the advertising airwaves underway in Oregon GMO labeling fight
In a TV ad paid for by advocates of labeling genetically modified foods in Oregon, voters are told 64 countries ...
GMO ‘steak chips’: Replacing slaughterhouses with genetically engineered meat
MIT Technology Review checks in with Modern Meadow CEO and cofounder Andras Forgacs. Modern Meadow aims to create leather and ...
Video: Mashable website tackles 4 common myths about GMOs
The popular website Mashable has a crisp video presentation on 4 Myths About GMOs. The four they tackle: Myth 1: ...
Do patents limit GMO research and farmers choice? Only a little
A 1980 Supreme Court decision that allowed patents to be granted to living things kicked off a controversy. The basic ...
Brazil OKs release of genetically engineered mosquitoes to control dengue virus
Thousands of British made genetically engineered mosquitoes were released by Brazilian researchers in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday infected with ...
Anti-GMO activists hope floodgates will open if Oregon passes labeling law
Is this the year that voters will finally insist on knowing which supermarket foods contain genetically modified organisms? Activists in ...
Colorado GMO label battle pit chefs against farmers
With the Nov. 4, 2014, ballot measure, Colorado is at the forefront of a fierce food fight raging across the ...
Podcast: UC-Davis’ Van Eenennaam on health impact of GMO crops on humans and animals
University of California-Davis animal biotechnology professor Alison Van Eenennaam, author of recent research published in the Journal of Animal Science [NOTE: article behind paywall ...
GMO opponents worry Big Six ag companies monopolize global food supply
What the next chapter in the evolution of agriculture has produced, is something akin to the pharmaceuticalization of food. Six ...
