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.
Starbucks denies alliance with Monsanto, support for GMOs, but Neil Young remains unimpressed
Neil Young announced that he's boycotting Starbucks. "I used to line up and get my latte everyday, but yesterday was ...
Are critics of anti-GMO activists ‘pro GMO’?
What is Pro-GMO? Is it the opposite of Anti-GMO? That is an interesting question. When I hear that someone is ...
McDonald’s says ‘no plans’ to adopt new GMO potato
McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food company and a longtime buyer of Simplot potatoes for french fries, says it doesn't plan ...
Los Angeles symbolic GMO ban reinforces misinformation
The Los Angeles City Council voted in late October to draft an ordinance that would prohibit the sale or planting ...
Video: GMO opponents sue to block new Enlist Duo GMO corn and soybeans
Millions of acres of farmland in the U.S. have been affected by herbicide-resistant weeds. And the problem is spreading, which ...
GMO innovations inevitable in Tanzania
Modern biotechnology is an emerging novel tool with potentials in improving human and animal health, agriculture, industrial and agricultural production ...
Federal judge puts just-passed Maui GMO law on hold
United States Magistrate Judge Barry Kurren ruled last Friday that Maui County may not implement a new law banning the cultivation of ...
Gates funded genetically modified but non-GMO eco-rice rolls out across Asia, Africa
“Green Super Rice,” developed jointly by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the International Rice Research Institute in the ...
Researchers across Europe ‘appalled’ at scrapping of EU science advisory, caving to anti-science Greens
Despite strong support from scientific bodies, Prof Anne Glover's mandate expired at the end of the Barroso presidency - and ...
Independent? Global anti-biotech groups major funders of longterm ‘GMO Factor’ study
Organizers of the proposed $25 million 'Factor GMO' study announced this week, who claim they will maintain their independence by ...
Are Americans ready to resurrect the once ubiquitous ‘spreading chesnut tree’?
The relationship between the US public and genetically modified organisms is a bit ambiguous. That may change thanks to work taking ...
Poor should “eat less”? Millionaire designer Vivienne Westwood on anti-GMO campaign denies recording
Vivienne Westwood is denying that she told poor people who can't afford organic food to "eat less," even though a radio ...
EU close to agreement to allow individual country votes on GMO approvals and bans
Long-awaited draft plans to allow EU member states to restrict, or ban, the cultivation of crops containing genetically modified organisms ...
My journey from anti-GMO views to science driven by obstinacy and arrogance of activists
In the Sleuth4Health chronicles that describe events leading up to and just after my metamorphosis, I pinpoint how it was ...
“The GMO Deception”: Jumble of cut-and-paste misinformation
Except for an occasional new piece, or a pre-section wrapper, the material in this tome is mostly cut-and-paste from the ...
Why don’t more farmers adopt organic methods? Ethics.
Organic food has quietly become a Big Ag juggernaut. Everyone talks aboutvideo games and the film industry, for example, but ...
Starbucks joins Monsanto and grocers in suing to block Vermont GMO label law
Starbucks is supporting Monsanto in its pursuit of a lawsuit against the state of Vermont. Last spring, Vermont passed a ...
Unfounded fears about GMO crops stunts China advancement
Mark Lynas, journalist and environmentalist, says unfounded fears about genetically modified crops prevent China from making full use of science ...
Center for Food Safety on how to trash a healthier eco-friendly potato—It’s a GMO!
Cooking potatoes (and many foods) causes the Maillard reaction, an interaction of sugars and amino acids perhaps most familiar in ...
Anti-GMO victory: At Greenpeace’s urging EU axes science adviser who supports climate research, biotech
The European Commission quietly confirmed Wednesday that its most senior scientific role, that of chief scientific adviser (CSA) to its ...
Food Babe: Calling food “natural” can fool consumers
A litany of class-action lawsuits have been waged against products marketed as "natural" that contain G.M.O.'s — including Goldfish crackers, ...
Whole Foods sued for allegedly mislabeling GMO almonds as “non GMO”
A class action lawsuit that was filed last week in California accuses Whole Foods Market of selling Blue Diamond almond milk products ...
Keith Kloor’s Discover: Will Bill Nye agree to debate Kevin Folta on GMOs?
At Discover blogger Keith Kloor's invitation, University of Florida plant geneticist Kevin Folta wrote an open letter to Bill Nye ...
David Ropeik views Nassim Taleb’s odd views on GMOs through a precautionary lens
David Ropeik, an internationally respected expert on risk, has been going head-to-head with 'black swan' proponent Nassim Taleb over Taleb's ...
Anti-GMO NGO–NAGS–announces $25 million “independent” study
A Russian group working with scientists is set to launch what they call the world’s largest and most comprehensive long-term ...
Organic alert: Whole Foods almonds contain potentially ‘fatal’ natural chemical
Whole Foods is recalling a line of Organic Raw Almonds, due to elevated levels of a natural chemical, hydrogen cyanide, ...
Largest GMO study in history confirms safety, cost benefits of GMOs
The largest GMO study in history, published last week in PLOS ONE, confirms that genetically modified crops have large, widespread benefits. The review ...
