Daily Food & Agriculture 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.
Civic group accuses Taiwanese FDA of misleading with ad claiming GM foods do not cause cancer
The Homemakers United Foundation yesterday accused the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of trying to mislead the public by running ...
Seralini rat study on toxicity of GM crops republished
Republication of the infamous Seralini study on the toxicity of genetically modified (GM) food crops has been met with renewed ...
Retracted Seralini study on GM corn toxicity republished with another unusual embargo
A highly controversial — and retracted — 2012 study by Gilles Seralini and colleagues of the effects of genetically modified maize and the ...
‘Science speaks for itself’: Séralini rat study on GM corn toxicity republished
GMOSeralini.org welcomes the news of the republication of the chronic toxicity study on the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup and a commercialized genetically modified ...
To MA legislators: Poorly-designed GMO labeling bill will misinform consumers
I understand that you support H3996 because you believe it is a labeling requirement, and my comments below will be ...
NGOs attack Cornell University as ‘hub of blind GMO promotion’ in India
With the NGOs raising a question whether the Intelligence Bureau is being used by foreign hands to take over India's ...
Europe warns Kenyan farmers that GM crop exports will not be accepted
Local farmers will find it difficult to export their crops to Europe if they adopt the Genetically Modified (GM) crops, ...
Biotech and chemical companies pour money backing GMO-friendly candidates in Hawaii
Hawaii has become “ground zero” in the controversy over genetically modified crops and pesticides. With the seed crop industry (including ...
India condemns Greenpeace, Vandana Shiva as ‘national security threats’
India's intelligence agency has targeted an adviser to Prince Charles and British activists in a campaign against Greenpeace and other ...
What’s a ‘MonSatan’? Let me know because I want to sue it
I like to think of myself as a good person. I recycle for the most part. I’ve seriously looked into ...
Western Australia organic certification council considers increasing GM tolerance limits
A decision on proposed changes to genetically modified material tolerance level in organic produce could be made by August. Recently the ...
GM meat in development but politics, consumer concerns pose high hurdles
There are no genetically engineered animals sold for human consumption right now. The only candidate that's anywhere close, AquaBounty's fast-growing ...
Biotechnology cannot feed world alone, but as part of integrated plan
Food biotechnology advocates frequently claim that GMOs will feed the world. It is an outright oversimplification and detracts from the ...
Indian government cracks down on anti-GMO activist groups, tightens control on foreign funding
The government is set to act against some anti-genetically modified (GM) NGOs named in the IB report after it cracked ...
Fear of GMOs hurts US competitiveness, prevents ‘scientifically responsible’ investment
Socially responsible investing has become pretty popular in recent years as a growing population of investors has decided to take ...
Activist Food Babe shames Anheuser-Busch to disclose beer ingredients in search for GMOs
Vani Hari, the blogger known as Food Babe, is an internet food activist who recently achieved one of her most high profile ...
Editorial: Anti-GM lobby holds back science advances in biotech
Work is afoot by British researchers to tackle malaria by genetically modifying mosquitoes so the population of the parasite’s insect ...
‘Significant majority’ of consumers OK with GMOs, despite protests and scare tactics
Despite all the protests, scare tactics, and outright misinformation about the safety of food products with GMO ingredients, a significant ...
‘Shill’-calling tactic to smear credibility in GMO debate needs to stop
Talking about food and farm practices, there is never a shortage of ideas and opinions. Some of it is great debate, ...
Vermont ‘overstepped’ authority in misinformed GMO label law
Vermont's GMO labeling bill was a huge event because similar legislation had been defeated in Washington and California. Those opposing the genetic modification ...
Australian organic farmer to appeal lost landmark GM crop ‘contamination’ case
Organic Kojonup farmer Steve Marsh and his wife Sue will appeal the Western Australia Supreme Court’s decision in the high ...
US to European Union: Ease restrictions on GM foods and crops for trans-Atlantic trade pact
The top American agriculture official on Tuesday called on the European Union to do more to ease restrictions on gene-altered food and ...
Sales of GM canola seed increase in Australia
Seed company Monsanto has posted a 55 per cent jump in sales of genetically modified canola seed in Australia. The company ...
Bt brinjal could enter India from Bangladesh illegally despite moratorium
Despite India's moratorium on the release ofgenetically-modified (GM) Bt brinjal, there is a possibility of gene contamination of Indian brinjals ...
Ghana biotech group slams Vandana Shiva’s claim that GM foods poisonous
The Ghana Chapter of the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) has said claims by Indian agro-ecologist, Dr. Vandana Shiva ...
GM giants on Kauai ‘drench’ test crops with pesticides causing islander illnesses
The four transnational corporations that are experimenting with genetically engineered crops on Kauai have transformed part of the island into ...
