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.
Kansas tea partier finds common cause with liberals on GMO labeling
Todd Tiahrt is a proud former member of the House tea party caucus. He claims to have a “100 percent pro-life ...
India should not rush to decide on GM crops without rational public debate
The public debates on GM began with the unannounced entry of Bt cotton in Gujarat, where the farmers had grown 21,000 acres ...
Safeway shareholders reject GMO labeling, garners only 10 percent support
Shareholders at Safeway have rejected a proposal from the Green Century Equity Fund calling for mandatory GMO labeling on its ...
Vermont raised over $160,000 in private donations to defend GMO labeling law
Vermont has raised more than $160,000 in private donations to help defend what would be the nation's first GMO labeling ...
‘Big Oil’ can’t ‘buy’ science organizations on climate change, neither can Monsanto on GMOs
Would you eat a plant that makes its own toxic pesticides, contains DNA from viruses and bacteria, sports genes that ...
China insists on GMO-free corn exports from U.S.
U.S. corn supplies will be even bigger next year if China keeps import curbs on a genetically modified variety of ...
Africa losing opportunities to reduce poverty because of ‘dysfunctional’ GM debate
Opportunities to enhance crop yields and reduce poverty in Africa are being lost because of a “polarised public debate” on ...
GM corn no longer resistant to tropical pests in Brazil
Genetically modified corn seeds are no longer protecting Brazilian farmers from voracious tropical bugs, increasing costs as producers turn to ...
Label this: Anti-GMO activists’ stance posing ‘actual threat’ to public health
This spring, Vermont passed a law requiring any food that includes genetically engineered ingredients - otherwise known as "GMOs" for ...
What’s it’s like to be on NaturalNews’ Mike Adams’ ‘kill list’
Name a wacky conspiracy theory (chemtrails, anti-vax, 9/11 trutherism) or a quack cure (juicing, homeopathy, metabolic therapy), and Mike Adams ...
‘All hell will break loose’ for Molokai if proposed GMO ban on Maui passes
If you’re looking for an entertaining way to spend your day, a trip to hear testimony given to the Maui ...
Food industry spent $9 million lobbying against GMO labeling laws in first quarter
The food industry spent $9 million lobbying Congress to oppose laws requiring labeling for genetically modified products in the first ...
Indian government delays approved GM crop field trials following pressure
The Centre has put on hold field trials of genetically-modified (GM) crops following pressure from the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM) ...
GM critic says biotech proponents perpetuate African dependency and poverty
The recent article, GM scaremongering in Africa is disarming the fight against poverty, published in the Guardian’s PovertyMatters Blog on ...
Latest Chinese restriction on GM corn ‘de facto embargo’ for U.S. grain exports
The biggest U.S. grain export association called on China on Thursday to rescind its latest restriction of a GMO corn strain, saying ...
Chinese researchers edit genes to make fungal-resistant wheat
Advanced genome-editing techniques have been used to create a strain of wheat resistant to a destructive fungal pathogen—called powdery mildew—that ...
Term ‘genetic modification’ loaded with baggage, undermining rational debate
With food security firmly on the international agenda, there's a growing appetite to look again at the opportunities promised by ...
Anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva has long history of rejecting science
Vandana Shiva is a chain reaction that cannot be stopped. It can only be witnessed from a safe distance. The ...
Shouldn’t anti-GMO activists be known as ‘Whole Food shills’?
Until recently, I was only vaguely aware that empty accusations of shilling were used as arguments in sensible lines of ...
Anti-GMO groups seek to remove Europe’s chief scientific adviser
If you can't change the science, change the scientists. This is what nine groups opposed to genetically modified organisms want ...
Fast-growing AquaBounty GM salmon ‘precedent-setting’, offers sustainability advantages
A genetically modified salmon, called AquAdvantage, is awaiting FDA approval, and, when it does, the fish should be available for ...
Oregon GMO labeling measure ‘misleads rather than enlightens’
Labels can inform or mislead. Our marketplace is literally drowning in labels, most of which have little meaning except to ...
Africa ‘missed out’ on Green Revolution, needs ‘growth spark’ from biotech
Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural sector needs to harvest the fruits of biotechnology in order to establish sustainable development, says a report. A ...
GMOs could save honeybees by eliminating virus and mites
President Obama has made saving pollinators a top priority, announcing the assembly of a task force designated to saving the ...
Center for Food Safety intervenes to defend Vermont GMO labeling law
Two advocacy groups are looking to help defend the state against an industry group lawsuit against Vermont’s GMO labeling law. The ...
Do Hawaii counties have authority to regulate GM crops and pesticides?
The question of whether or not counties have the authority to regulate pesticide use and genetically engineered crops was at ...
‘Hateful’ example of anti-GMO activism illustrates dangers when emotion overpowers reason
There is a frightening, hateful turn of events taking place right now that anyone involved in the GMO issue, or ...
