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.
GMO opponent Vani Hari, Food Babe, lashes out at critics
We are close to winning. Over the last three years, the coalition we have built, the Food Babe Army, has had ...
EU GM crops in limbo for years likely to move forward with compromise in hand
Agreement to permit country-level bans of genetically modified plants should ease deadlocks in EU approval process. After years of political ...
Nobel Prize winner calls anti-GMO opinion ‘crime against humanity’
This is how you kick off a biotech convention: On Monday, the Nobel Prize in Medicine Richard J. Roberts accused ...
Silence from Bill Nye to Kevin Folta GMO debate challenge
Some of you might recall the open letter from Kevin Folta, a University of Florida plant scientist, inviting ["The Science Guy," Bill ...
Opponents to GE trees contend science violates environment and social mores
Organizations against genetically engineered (GE) trees are working across four continents to call for an end to the scientific manipulation ...
Consumers open to GMO foods, nanotechnology if there are health benefits
Research from North Carolina State University and the University of Minnesota shows that the majority of consumers will accept the ...
Got synbio milk? Bioengineers create lactose-free lab-grown milk
Brace yourself for udderless dairy. What can science do better than a cow? That’s the question a trio of vegan bioengineers ...
EPA accomplice in environmentalists’ war on neonics?
The Environmental Protection Agency is arguably the worst regulatory agency in the history of the world. But perhaps I understate ...
Kauai authorizes $100,000 GMO pesticide health study
The state Department of Agriculture and Kauai County are paying a consultant $100,000 to examine the possible health and environmental ...
Reflections on the Great Biotech Debate: Dissecting the arguments
Intelligence Squared, an organization that organizes public debates across the globe, holds them in traditional Oxford debating style which pits one team ...
How activists planned assault on neonics (and bees)
Imagine a scenario where a group of people get together to frame the debate about science and even set out ...
China’s wild plant species could provide global resilience to climate change
A team from the University of Birmingham in the U.K., and partners in China, have identified 871 wild plant species ...
GMO DEBATE RECAP: Battle over Biotechnology—Public backs GM research and farming
I was really excited to watch the Intelligence Squared debate. I've been looking forward to it for seemingly ages. Bottom ...
In wake of GMO debate defeat, antis throw leaders under the bus?
Within minutes after the routing of anti-GMO scientists Margaret Mellon and Charles Benbrook at Wednesday's Intelligence Squared debate--the motion in favor of ...
EU “independent” bee task force chair plotted to blame neonicotinoids for deaths then cook research to fit PR plan
Research blaming pesticides for the decline in honeybees has been called into question by a leaked note suggesting that scientists ...
GMO farmers sometimes more sustainable than organic ones
One of the common arguments against the use of genetically modified organisms (GMO), specifically plant GMOs, is that it allows ...
William Powell video interview on the return of the American chestnut tree
When European settlers came to America, they found vast forests in the Appalachian mountains, dominated by the American chestnut. But ...
Gene research can improve crops by traditional methods
Advances in understanding the genetic makeup of plants could ultimately help to produce more resilient, higher-yielding crops, the head of ...
Cost of GMO labeling of the harvest
The 2014 midterm elections are now history. Thank goodness! I am so glad my landline phone is now quiet again ...
Minnesota schools serve up non-GMO lunches as “educational” event
Just when the backlash over first lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch menu leveled off, students in a handful of Twin ...
UN contradictions: Opposition to biopharming, which could treat Ebola infections
High-level officials of the United Nations are not known for their perspicacity, competence, or scientific acumen, but the head of ...
Nassim Taleb’s disastrously naive GMO disaster scenario
Nassim Taleb, author of "The Black Swan" and other books, and his co-authors on a recent working paper suggest that we ...
British opposition toward GMO food softening
On a damp Sunday afternoon shoppers at Tesco, a supermarket, in south London seem uninterested in discussing genetically modified (GM) ...
Indian panel advises caution on GMO crops
The government-appointed High Level Committee (HLC) to review environmental laws, while proposing a near complete overhaul of the regulatory system, ...
Uganda researchers plead for advanced biotech seeds
Just like humans look for the good traits when choosing a partner for procreation, farmers should look for good seeds ...
Filipino farmers petition government to deny golden rice approval
Jon Sarmiento, a farmer in the Cavite province in southern Manila, plants a variety of fruits and vegetables, but his ...
Artic Apple’s gene-silencing tech presents new regulation challenges
Biotechnology is heading into the Garden of Eden. A Canadian corporation, Okanagan Specialty Fruits, is offering a genetically engineered apple that ...
