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.
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 ...
Photographic romance of GMO breeding
The genetic modification of foods is not the sort of topic that inspires ambivalence. When photographer Murray Ballard first visited the John ...
East African plant project targets tackle climate change, pests and diseases.
East African crop scientists have embarked on a five-year project to conserve indigenous plant genetic resources to improve food security ...
Unapproved GMO wheat again found, this time in Montana
Unregulated genetically modified wheat has popped up at a Montana research facility east of Billings, the U.S. Agriculture Department said ...
New generation Kansas Christian farm family addresses GMO truths and myths
Now, some of you may think you know a lot about GMOs. Others may have no idea what I am ...
Former Colorado ag commish: Vote ‘No’ on Colorado GMO labeling law
Colorado voters are faced with an important decision on the November 2014 ballot. As a former Colorado commissioner of agriculture, ...
Deconstructing Dr. Oz misrepresentations on pesticide exposure danger
Andrew Kniss, a scientist with an expertise in pesticides and weed control, addressed a segment on the Dr. Oz show in ...
Answers for home gardeners about GMOs
I would like to clear up for home gardeners: there are no GMO home vegetable seeds available now, and there ...
PBS’s John Hockenberry challenges Vandana Shiva on GMO misstatements
The Takeaway host John Hockenberry interviews anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva on Monsanto, Bt cotton and global trade, pesticide use, farmer ...
90% of India cotton farmers use biotech, need unified voice
The Hindu BusinessLine speaks with Shilpa Divekar Nirula, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of farm input company Monsanto’s ...
Mainstream consumers don’t appear concerned about GMOs
It’s starting to look like the average eater doesn’t care about GMOs. At the very beginning of 2014, General Mills ...
GMO eggplant may unlock Asian food revolution, cut pesticide use, farmer deaths
The humble aubergine – you might call it eggplant or brinjal – may be about to unlock a food revolution ...
General Mills shareholders reject proposal to dump GM foods
General Mills Inc. has made strong commitments this year to natural and organic foods. It took genetically modified ingredients out ...
Oregon GMO label advocates release first TV ads
The Yes on 92 campaign, the largest proponent of Oregon’s labeling measure, launched its first two ads on September 23. The ...
Will EU countries be allowed to opt out of approved biotech crops?
After four years of uncertainty, an EU Commission proposal to permit individual countries to opt out of allowing the planting ...
GMO cotton has transformed India into world’s largest cotton exporter
India’s cotton economy has undergone a radical and unheralded transformation over the past decade. From being a net importer of ...
Monsanto chief scientist Rob Fraley backs national GMO-free law, defends patenting
Radio host John Hockenberry interviews Monsanto chief technology officer Rob Fraley on GMO labeling, feeding the world, neocotinoids and honeybees, ...
Farmer asks, Why are scientists sitting on the sidelines in the GMO debate?
It's perhaps too easy to laugh off the whole GMO issue: the opponents so over the top, the proponents, including ...
India’s political flip-flopping over new GM field trials paralyzes innovation
In August, India’s ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stopped its legislators from accepting Monsanto sponsorship to attend a farm ...
Gates Foundation funds research for genetic tools in sweet potato breeding
North Carolina State University will receive $12.4 million over the next four years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...
Agent Orange redux? Dr. Oz called out for fear-mongering on newest GMO products
Dr. Oz, infamous for his promotion of alternative medicine remedies and organic foods, and for his scaring people about chemical ...
9 most asked questions about GMOs: University of Florida’s Kevin Folta answers
The Refinery 29 has collected the most asked questions about GMOs from their readers and asked University of Florida plant ...
Cannabis DNA mapping could lead to more consistent “highs”
Nine months ago, Mowgli Holmes, 42, started Phylos Bioscience in Southwest Portland with entrepreneur Nishan Karassik, 44, with the aim ...
Dr. Bronner pumps in money to pass Oregon mandatory labeling campaign
The most expensive food fight in Oregon history is just getting interesting, and David Bronner is smack in the middle ...
