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 labeling opponents spent over $27 million in six months
Opponents of mandatory labeling for foods made with genetically modified organisms spent more than $27 million in the first six ...
‘Delusion’ key to effectiveness in Vandana Shiva’s activism
The ultimate objective of Vandana Shiva is dear to all sane people — the world is beautiful and it has ...
African leaders call for efforts to increase agricultural productivity, including biotech
African ministers and business leaders have gathered in Ethiopia to consider ways to trigger a green revolution and improve the ...
Anti-GMO groups mount misinformation campaign against pesticide-reducing Bt brinjal in Bangladesh
The campaign against pest-resistant Bt brinjal in Bangladesh appears to have shifted into a new gear, as the powerful anti-GMO ...
Video: Kauai ruling recognizes Hawaii’s ‘comprehensive’ framework to address GMO concerns
A federal court ruling overturning the county of Kauai's ordinance on the use of pesticides and genetically modified crops is likely ...
Activists seek endangered status for monarch butterflies, blame pesticides and GMOs
As monarch butterfly populations dwindle to unprecedented low levels, activists say the colorful and far-ranging insects need protection of the ...
GE microbes address climate change, sequester carbon dioxide by making plastics
What's the fix for a warming planet? Just one word: Plastics. As the world grapples with greenhouse gas emissions still ...
Oregonian editorial: ‘No, thanks’ to Oregon’s GMO labeling measure
Oregonians "place a priority on personal freedom and individual choice in how we live our lives," gushes the website supporting the ...
China needs open debate on GMO public policy
Biosafety certificates permitting Chinese researchers to grow genetically modified rice and corn expired last week, with little indication that the ...
New generation Amish farmer’s view of next Green Revolution
In 2010, a young man on a quest for enlightenment walked into the office of Jerry Hatfield, director of the ...
Anti-GMO group GM Watch says Biofortified’s GENERA project ‘useful’
In a discussion about the scientific literature on genetically engineered crops, Claire Robinson of GM Watch has previously said: ”I am, as ...
Lobby money flows into Oregon as GMO labeling vote nears
Oregon’s food fight is just getting started. A ballot measure that would require the labeling of genetically modified foods has ...
Indian ag minister: Biotech will play ‘significant role’ in second Green Revolution
Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh today pitched for biotech crops especially in eastern states for achieving second green revolution in the country. Opening a ...
Potato industry poised for approval of new GM variety
The biotech industry is working to shape a more balanced conversation on GMOs. Attendees at the Idaho Grower-Shipper Association’s 86th annual ...
My garden is organic and I grow GMOs
Enter by the wooden gate, you'll find a lush vegetable garden with red veined chard, green cabbages, spicy arugula, bright ...
Stonyfield founder Gary Hirshberg leverages ‘Vandana Shiva Affair’ to promote GMO labeling
Michael Specter’s essay in The New Yorker against labeling genetically engineered food is fraught with factual errors, and it misses ...
Brazilian transgenic eucalyptus trees that produce more wood target of global activists
Viewed from above, Brazil’s orderly eucalyptus plantations offer a stark contrast to the hurly-burly of surrounding native forests. The trees, ...
Activists blame GMOs and pesticides for monarch butterfly decline in west
As monarch butterfly populations dwindle to unprecedented low levels, activists say the colorful and far-ranging insects need protection of the ...
Faces behind the GMO labeling offensive
Organic activists claim 92 percent of consumers want genetically modified organisms (GMOs) labeled. It turns out the overwhelming majority of consumers support the status quo when ...
Vandana Shiva, activists confuse prejudices against Big Ag with debate over GMOs
The New Yorker has a fascinating article on Vandana Shiva, a crusader against GMO crops. I’d never heard of her before, ...
Will ‘genetically edited” crops diffuse the opposition to GMOs?
Recent advances in precise editing of genomes now raise the possibility that fruit and other crops might be genetically improved ...
Why we should be concerned by anti-GMO conspiracy theories
Contrails are the wispy white clouds of frozen water vapor that streak across the sky in the wake of jet ...
Why I used to support mandatory GMO labeling and now don’t
I am opposed to government mandated GMO labels, though I started of in favor of them. In fact I helped ...
Michael Specter discusses his profile of Vandana Shiva
In last week’s The New Yorker magazine, Michael Specter wrote about the work of the environmental activist Vandana Shiva, who has, for ...
Do GMO seed companies control the world food supply?
Note: This is a summary of the publication Taking stock of the genetically modified seed sector worldwide: market, stakeholders, and prices ...
10 myths and controversies of GMOs by I Fucking Love Science
Genetically modified crops are a topic of intense debate that have sparked a lot of controversy over the years, fueled ...
Reflections on overturning of Kaua’i’s anti-GMO and pesticide restriction law
“So are you happy with the decision?” my sister asked as I fielded phone calls, emails and texts yesterday after ...
