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.
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 ...
Better for Monsanto to surrender on labeling battle to win war over GMOs
An ABC news poll conducted last year found that 52 percent of people believe that GMOs are unsafe, and another 13 percent ...
2014 World Food Prize recipient: ‘Shameful’ if India lets biotech pass
Dr Sanjaya Rajaram often remembers that his mentor, Nobel Peace prize winner Dr Norman Borlaug, always said: “Peace does not ...
Nigerian scientists declare opponents of biotech ‘enemies’ of African development
As the controversy over the safety of biotechnology continues, Nigerian scientists yesterday reiterated their stand on the safety of the ...
Independent safety research needed to rebuild public trust in GM products
The Dutch Commission on Genetic Modification (COGEM), a statutory advisory body of scientists created to provide advice to government on ...
Anti-GMO activist campaign slams biofortified GM crops, claims biodiversity ‘far better’
Attempts to genetically modify food staples, such as crops and cattle, to increase their nutritional value and overall performance have ...
Study claiming organic more nutritious captures why it’s harder to figure out risk
A study in the news last week perfectly captures why it’s getting harder and harder to figure out what’s risky ...
Video: Africa’s leaders need education about role of biotech in agriculture
As a boy growing up on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, Harvard international development professor Calestous Juma noticed ...
How GM crops can help address India’s food security problems
The new environment minister Prakash Javadekar is yet to take a call on allowing further trials of genetically-modified (GM) crops ...
Plant-based, animal-free cow’s milk soon to be reality with GM yeast
Biohackers Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi are working on crafting a plant-based concoction that’s nearly identical in makeup to what’s ...
No fooling science with anti-GMO myths
The internet is full of false information about genetically modified crops and derived food. Unfortunately the average person — including many ...
Kauai seeks $50,000 more for private attorneys defending anti-GMO, pesticides law
Kauai’s county attorney has asked the county council for more money to defend a new law regulating genetically engineered crops ...
Why GM debates do not persuade public opinion
When, earlier this year, SciDev.Net decided to host a live online debate around genetically modified (GM) plants and animals, it was because we knew ...
Editorial: Consumers want transparency, Congress should mandate GMO labeling nationwide
The fight over genetic engineering boils down to this underlying disagreement: Consumers want to know what is in the foods they ...
Biotech can help increase food security in sub-Saharan Africa but opportunities ignored
Transforming agriculture is central to sub-Saharan Africa's development prospects. Three-quarters of people in extreme poverty – existing on less than $1.25 a day ...
Debunking claims of no long-term and independent GMO studies
One of the complaints I hear most is “there are no GM food studies done by independents, it’s all company ...
Editorial: Congress should step in on GMO labeling wars
Congress might not be accomplishing much these days, but that doesn't mean it's not wrestling with significant issues. One of ...
Faces of Molokai dependent on biotech industry with little say in proposed GMO ban
Civil Beat photographer turned his lens on employees, farmers and their families on Molokai, the island where Big Biotech is ...
Will consumers accept GM yeast that could save our oceans?
Scientists at DuPont have genetically modified a yeast to produce a long-chain omega-3 fatty acid, essential to human health and ...
Nutrition scientist fights to save Golden Rice research from retraction
In hopes of preventing the retraction of her 2012 paper in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which led to much controversy regarding ...
Tasmania’s poppy industry pushes to lift GMO ban
Tasmania's isolation and wilderness once made it a dumping ground for the British Empire's convicts. But these same qualities, and ...
Nobel laureate calls out anti-GMO lobby group Safe Food Foundation for ‘dishonesty’
Australian Nobel Prize laureate Professor Barry Marshall has labelled the lobby group supporting farmer Steve Marsh in landmark legal proceedings ...
EU feed industry anticipates ‘huge disruptions’ to trade if GM crops not approved in time
Huge disruption to feed grain trade and subsequent price hikes would follow if the E.U. regulator does not approve eight ...
USDA backs down from proposed GMO disclosure rule
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is backing down from a GMO disclosure rule that would have provided state regulators ...
Biotech industry body defends India’s Intelligence Bureau report as NGOs cry foul
With the NGOs raising a question whether the Intelligence Bureau is being used by foreign hands to take over India's ...
GM offers many opportunities to save lives in poorest countries but blocked by unnecessary regulation
I was at the International Consortium of Agricultural Biotechnology Research conference in Kenya. Despite security concerns, about 200 people braved ...
