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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Enviro groups solicit Congress to pressure EPA to suspend neonic insecticides
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is getting pressure from environmental and sustainable agriculture organizations and members of Congress to ...
Top Ten issues more important than labeling GMOs
As a follow up to his list of 4 problems that GMO labeling won't solve, Nathanael Johnson of the environmental ...
Interview: Vandana Shiva responds to New Yorker profile
Correspondent Fedrico Rampini interviews Vandana Shiva for the Italian newspaper Repubblica, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the profile ...
Food Hunk challenges Foodbabe and other anti-GMO activists
Early this September I attended the National Heirloom Expo in Santa Rosa. It’s an event that’s centered around the pure ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
