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.
Kauai’s primary suggests voters are pro-GMO
Kauai County Councilmen Mel Rapozo and Ross Kagawa, the lone members to oppose the county’s controversial GMO disclosure bill last ...
Australia could ‘cripple’ export potential if GM is rejected, says U.S. professor
A leading expert in potato industry research says Australia’s export potential will be crippled unless farmers embrace genetic modification (GM) ...
Ugandan scientists divided on GMO bill
Going by the contradicting views from various stakeholders including disagreements among scientists, Parliament will have an uphill task in refining the ...
Attack on European Commission chief scientific adviser’s position cause for alarm
Political ecologists like science… when it confirms their views. When it contradicts them, rather than changing their minds they often ...
Self-destructing GE fly could be effective pest control method
A type of genetically engineered fly which eventually kills itself off could be an effective method of pest control, according ...
GMO labeling fight ‘here to stay’ in New York
That right to know whether the food you eat contains GMOs — genetically modified organisms — is at the center of a ...
Mandatory GMO labeling reaches ‘boil’
The battle over mandatory labeling of biotechnology-derived food has reached a boil. “I’ve been asked to hit on a few ...
One Maui farmer’s journey from organics to GMOs
GMO Skepti-Forum has been featuring essays by readers on the GMO controversy. We’re going to be featuring some of them on the ...
Ecocide hysteria: Nassim Taleb may be risk expert but doesn’t understand science of GMOs
Nassim Taleb, one of my favorite authors and thought donors alive today, is making my efforts to spread knowledge about ...
What’s the difference between denying the scientific consensus on vaccines vs GMOs?
The science on GMOs is as solid and authoritative as it is on vaccines. So why are liberal outlets like ...
Anti-GMO activists petition Neil deGrasse Tyson to stop speaking scientifically about GMOs
I was grateful when Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson accidentally stepped in science's ripest dookie — anti-GMO pseudoscience. He's getting to experience first ...
Rise of GM crops in America over past decade
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently posted new data on how genetically modified crops have taken over American farms in the past ...
Primary opponents of GM crops in Africa activists, not scientists, as food sufficiency needs soar
One of the basic concerns of those against biotech and GM crops is that, it is not good for humans ...
Hawaii pro-GMO candidates win in elections
What a bunch of losers. That's the takeaway from election results for anti-GMO candidates statewide. On Kauai, pro-GMO mayor Bernard ...
Whole Foods’ non-GMO preferences pose ‘insurmountable’ problem for cheesemakers
Mateo Kehler isn’t merely a leader in the American artisan cheese renaissance; he’s also knee-deep in the nation’s curdling fight ...
Two farmers’ experiences with GMO and organic crops
The vegetables that grow at Early Morning Farm in Genoa look the same as the vegetables that grow 85 miles ...
Non-herbicide-resistant crops die from herbicidal drift from GMO fields
Last summer, June 17 to be exact, one of the volunteers on Margot McMillen’s organic farm in Auxvasse, Missouri noticed ...
Can Europe return to ‘knowledge-based’ society amid anti-GMO calls to topple science adviser?
Politics are winning at the expense of science in France and now the entire European Union faces a similar fate. On ...
Honor Norman Borlaug’s centenary, accept his position on GM crops
This year, 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Norman Borlaug, founder of the Green Revolution. The world faced ...
Scientist busts persistent GMO myths, focuses on real issues
One persistent theme in my writing about scientific topics is that, to optimally serve our own interests, public discourse and ...
Indian scientists afraid to show support for biotech, fear branding as ‘industry agents’
Scientists who support genetically modified (GM) crops refrain from making their stand public, fearing that they will be branded as ...
Judge overturns Monsanto’s permit for GM soybeans in favor of Mexican beekeepers
A small group of beekeepers in Mexico has inflicted a blow on biotech giant Monsanto, which has halted the company’s ...
Vermont asks court to throw out lawsuit against GMO labeling law
Vermont has the right to require that genetically modified foods sold within the state be labeled, the state attorney general ...
Food makers begin ousting GMOs from products
Two decades after the first genetically engineered seeds were sold commercially in the U.S., genetically modified organisms—the crops grown from ...
Anti-GMO lobby wages war on small African farmers using advanced communication technologies
The year 2013 marked the 18th consecutive year of commercial cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), now commonly referred to ...
USDA likely to approve new GM crops that resist two herbicides
U.S. regulators said they are leaning toward approval of a new line of herbicide-tolerant crops developed by Monsanto Co even ...
‘Bigger’ issues in food production than GMOs to worry about
There are some ways of modifying food that haven’t been around for hundreds, much less thousands, of years and are ...
