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.
As EU pesticide ban to ‘save bees’ backfires, focus of failure turns to activist politicians
Within only 10 months of the precautionary ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, farmers in the UK are reporting significant crop losses for ...
Using the term ‘superweed’ in GMO debate is misleading
Superweeds have been in been in the news a lot over the last few months. Most of the recent coverage ...
Critics of Bill Gates’ ‘industrial ag’ efforts in Africa take their case to Seattle
In Kenya, where he works with small farmers, Daniel Maingi “failed miserably” in his attempts to connect with agricultural organizations ...
Video: World Food Prize kicks off–Norman Borlaug’s legacy and challenges of global hunger
The World Food Prize annual gathering is being held this week in Iowa. Julie Borlaug, the granddaughter of Norman Borlaug, father ...
Why are “public good” GMO products sitting on developers’ shelves?
The U.S. National Academies of Science, as part of a new two-year study into the safety of genetically engineered crops, ...
Infographic: How to avoid GMO corn? Turn back the clock 9000 years
In 9000 years, humans have altered sweetcorn to make it 1000 times larger, 3.5 times sweeter, much easier to peel and ...
Jimmy Kimmel: What’s a GMO?
This week the Jimmy Kimmel Live late night show sent their roving reporter out to a farmer's market to ask ...
‘Gene drives’ could circumvent anti-GMO hysteria but present unique risks
Wouldn't it be great if scientists could genetically engineer mosquitoes to be immune to the malaria parasite, thus protecting people ...
There’s more to feeding the world than high yielding commodity crops
Since the food price spikes of 2007-8, global hands have been wringing over the question, how will we feed the ...
Australia approves dual herbicide tolerant GMO canola
Australia's first dual herbicide tolerant canola varieties are set to be released next year. A canola with both triazine tolerance ...
Love organic Ruby Red grapefruit? Created by ‘atomic breeding’, anti-GMOers oppose labeling
Groups like March Against Monsanto continually share information that is not based on actual evidence, and it’s despicable how low ...
Consumer Reports: Most processed foods labeled “natural” contain GMOs
A majority of U.S. packaged foods labeled as "natural" and tested by Consumer Reports actually contained a substantial level of ...
Foreign grain sales hold steady in wake of Montana GMO wheat discovery
More than a week after reports that genetically modified wheat unexpectedly turned up at a university research lab in Huntley, ...
Organic foods 4 to 8 times more likely to be recalled, regulators on the sidelines
Every day millions of shoppers are paying out as much as 50 or 100 percent more to buy organic foods ...
Walmart’s sustainability initiative dramatically reduces environmental impact of agriculture
Nearly a decade after setting a series of bold sustainability goals, Walmart has struggled to curb its climate pollution and ...
More farmers sue Syngenta, political flap over sales of GMO corn to China that it had not approved escalates
Farmers from the biggest U.S. corn-growing states have sued Syngenta AG over sales of genetically modified corn seed not approved ...
Are pesticides responsible for farmer depression, suicides?
On his farm in Iowa, Matt Peters worked from dawn to dusk planting his 1,500 acres of fields with pesticide-treated ...
Turbocharged photosynthesis could turn GMOs into invasive species
A joint team from Cornell University in New York and Rothamsted Research in the UK has successfully replaced a key ...
British farmers union calls for review of insecticide ban as losses mount
The National Farmer's Union of England and Wales (NFU) has called on policymakers to urgently review the evidence showing the ...
Consumer acceptance of GMO rubber more likely than of GMO oranges
For crops that are grown in monocultures, especially trees and vines that take years to bear fruit and can't be ...
Cyanide Frankengrass kills cattle–Or not! Conventional breeding more unpredictable than GMOs
On Sunday there were dozens of reports, including on CBS, that GMO grass about "GMO" grass that killed cattle. It was ...
Chobani seeks non-GMO milk for yogurt, faces supply challenge, high prices
Chobani, the yogurt aisle darling and maven of healthy snacks, is looking to check another box for ingredient-conscious shoppers: non-genetically ...
Interview: USDA investigation into unapproved GE wheat found in Montana fields
America's Food and Farm radio's Ray Bowman interviews Montana State University spokesman Tracy Ellig and crop consultant Steve Savage about the ...
‘Corporate interests’ making us sick, warping food and medicine policies
Money in politics is making our nation sicker, threatening our national security, and ultimately destroying the very economic prosperity the ...
Interactive map: Oregon GMO labeling campaign – Follow the money!
The Oregonian has published an interactive map detailing the source and size of contributions to both sides in the Measure ...
Let’s play GMO Jeopardy!
In my discussions about GMOs, I've come to the realization that many of the issues that are raised are not ...
Precautionary principle backfires in Europe, insecticide ban harms bees and farming
An EU pesticide ban that was supposed to protect bees has done no such thing. All it does is damage ...
