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.
Many organic seeds genetically altered through hybridization
We have some vague awareness that GMOs are bad and organic is good, but few of us could say exactly ...
Fear of GMOs prevent GM barley resistant to ‘vomitoxin’-producing fungi from reaching beers
This past summer, exceptionally hot and humid for many, was brutal for the small-scale barley farmers who have been cropping ...
AUDIO: Yale neurologist Steven Novella challenges fears of GMOs, industrial agriculture
For Medium's Inquiring Minds, Indre Viskontas spoke with Dr. Steven Novella, a neurologist at Yale University. Novella is a prominent voice ...
Kashi Go Lean Crisp cereal goes non-GMO and nutrition plummets
Take a look at Kashi's Go Lean Crisp! cereal. The company, which is actually owned by Kellogg's, has recently received ...
Mark Lynas: From anti-GMO activist to GMO advocate
Just under 20 years ago, when the issue of GMOs was first hitting the news, I was a dedicated anti-biotech ...
Oregon GMO bans go against principles of organic farming, could hurt organic industry
The vote in Jackson County, Ore., to ban genetically modified organisms marks a huge setback for the organic community across ...
Compromise by pro- and anti-GMO countries opens door to GM crop cultivation in European Union
An unholy alliance of pro- and anti-GMO countries have struck a deal that will sweep away the obstacles to genetically ...
Hawaii island GMO ban threatens future of university-based independent research
Hawaii County set itself apart from much of the rest of the state in December by effectively banning the large ...
Bt cotton huge success in India defies anti-GMO conspiracy theories
In disputes around Bt cotton, a “triumph narrative” is alleged to have emerged from researchers - mainly economists - catering ...
Voters targeted Monsanto, Syngenta in Oregon GM crop bans but hit farmer neighbors instead
Voters in Jackson and Josephine counties banned genetically engineered plants last week. It's not entirely wrong to consider the result a victory ...
Marsh v Baxter case tested organic certification standards in Western Australia and showed they must change
A biotechnology scientist says organic certification bodies need to relax their rules and be “more realistic” about the presence of ...
GMO, non-GMO, conventional, organic? Clearer terms needed to limit misleading ads and labeling
Today a very high percentage of livestock feed and processed food for human consumption is produced from transgenic modified seed ...
Zimbabweans have consumed GMOs safely for a decade, contrary to minister’s claims
A few days ago, NewZimbabwe.com published an article entitled "GMOs remain banned in Zim, Made" in which the Agriculture, Mechanisation ...
Near-extinct American chestnut trees make comeback with help from genetic modification
The near-extinct American chestnut looks set to make a comeback. Genetically modified trees, which are resistant to a deadly fungus ...
Public mislead about organics: GM and conventional food as safe, healthy, nutritious
The verdict in the Australia courts rejecting the claim of an organic farmer than his GM-farming neighbor was "contaminating" his ...
GMO opposition is fierce, but not much of it based on science
A more sober assessment of the public GMO debate reveals that it's not really about the science of the safety ...
Video: GLP’s Entine challenges Consumer Reports anti-GMO (anti-consumer?) stance on FOX’s Stossel
Almost 90 percent of all corn and soybeans in the United States are grown from seeds that were genetically modified. GM research has now ...
Western Australia court ruling highlights need for law reform to include ‘biotrespass’
The supreme court of Western Australia handed down a landmark decision yesterday, on genetically modified crop liability. The ruling in Marsh ...
California lawmakers reject GMO-labeling bill for second time in two years
California lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would require labels on foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the ...
Turkish government denies changing regulations to permit sale of food products containing up to 0.9 percent GM ingredients
A change made to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry regulations now permits the production and sale of ...
Vermont’s GMO-labeling bill success was not about ‘right-to-know’ but clear vote against conventional agriculture
The incredible success of the GMO labeling bill was in actuality not about the “right to know” what is in ...
Western Australian farmer Michael Baxter’s win a big step forward for co-existence between organic, GM crops
The Western Australia Supreme Court’s decision to award Kojonup GM canola farmer Michael Baxter victory over his organic farming neighbour ...
3000 rice genomes released into public domain to boost food production
As a step toward boosting rice production to meet a projected 25 percent increase in demand by 2030, researchers from three Asian ...
GM wheat–Is the potential being overstated as some scientists claim?
My colleague (and chief wheat breeder) at Oklahoma State University was recently interviewed by Ag Journal, and he expressed reservations about GMO wheat ...
VIDEO: Maui mayor neutral on law to restrict GMOs
Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa is keeping a neutral stance on the GMO debate as a petition has surfaced seeking a ...
Danger in food scares over GMOs almost never real, but fear itself kills
It's easy to scare people about what's in their food, but the danger is almost never real. And the fear ...
Congressional briefing raises concerns about new GMO crops with 2,4-D herbicide resistance
The next argument over genetically engineered crops has arrived with Dow AgroScience’s bid to gain federal approval for soybean and ...
