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.
Going non-GMO often means returning to less environmentally friendly food production system
When consumers think about GMOs, they tend to contrast them with “some hypothetical alternative food that is pristine”, when in ...
Video: Congressional panel concludes labeling would stoke GMO fears
It's pretty rare that members of Congress and all the witnesses they've called will declare out loud that Americans are ...
Zambian municipality destroys over 1000 lbs of cereals with GMOs
The Livingstone City Council swung into action seizing and destroying cereals from Shoprite Supermarket containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Livingstone City Council Chief Health Inspector ...
South Africa to review GMO labeling regulations over ‘loophole’
Local food companies had been hiding large amounts of genetically modified organism (GMO) content behind the “may contain GMOs” label, ...
‘Preppers’ join anti-GMO movement in search of healthier post-apocalyptic lifestyle
Activists championing organic foods have found support among preppers (people preparing for the end of civilization). They're sympathetic to the ...
GMOs are not meaningful ‘category’ of foods or ingredients
Even after two decades of stunning scientific, humanitarian and financial successes and an admirable record of safety, the application of genetic engineering ...
Iowa consumers care more about taste, price, nutrition, safety than organic or GMOs in food
Iowans care about where their food is grown, whether it's organic, made with high-fructose syrup or without GMOs, a new ...
Stewardship program essential for new GM herbicide-resistant crops to be effective
On June 30 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed a 60-day comment period on its proposed decision to register ...
Oregon’s GMO task force gets few answers from federal GMO regulators
An Oregon task force studying genetically modified crops and food grilled federal regulators at its meeting Thursday, but didn’t get a lot ...
GM papaya registry in Hawaii will not release growers’ information publicly
Judge Greg Nakamura granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday preventing Hawaii County from disclosing the identity and specific location of farms ...
Ag industry’s failure to communicate biotech’s benefits to blame for heated GMO debate
The heated public debate over genetically modified foods shows the agricultural industry is not doing enough to communicate biotechnology's benefits ...
El Salvadoran farmers protest millions in US aid over GM seeds
Farmers in El Salvador are protesting against a multimillion-dollar grant from a US aid agency that would force the country to open its seed ...
Single standard needed for GMO labeling to serve consumers, not special interests
I have a big family—and between me, my kids, and my grandkids, we’re spread out across America. We live in ...
Similarities between anti-GMO and anti-vaccine activists
If there’s one characteristic that nearly all cranks share it’s an intolerance of criticism and a tendency to want to ...
EU still torn over crop-based biofuels amid fear of rising food costs
The debate over biofuels risks dragging on, despite EU energy ministers reaching an agreement on the controversial crop-based fuels. EU ...
Inside look at Jeffrey Smith’s anti-GMO event
A small group of Centre For Inquiry members and University of British Columbia Okanagan professors were in the Okanagan College ...
Japanese scientists find GM cure for flower aging, help bouquets remain fresh for longer
Japanese scientists say they have found a way to slow down the ageing process in flowers by up to a ...
Iowa State expert in food science and human nutrition: No evidence that GMOs are harmful
The question of whether GMOs are safe to eat is one among many that Ruth MacDonald hears a lot of. MacDonald ...
GMOs can be developed to promote soil health and fertility
Biotechnology can be used to improve soil health but that’s not necessarily happening the way it is being used today, ...
Oregon has no authority over federally approved GM crops, state officials say
Oregon agriculture officials say the state has no authority over genetically modified crops once federal regulators deem them safe for ...
Return of iconic American chestnut with help of GE calls for celebration
If the greatest living American were a tree, it would probably be the chestnut. In the first half of the 20th ...
Philippines can become chicken exporter if it adopts high-yielding GM corn
Philippines stands to secure a niche in the global chicken-export market if it can reduce feed prices to global levels ...
Western Australian farmer hailed hero for resisting ‘bullying’ over GM ‘contamination’
Western Australian farmer Michael Baxter has been described as a modern day hero who should be hailed for resisting “the ...
Widespread GM crop adoption created ‘agricultural desert,’ starving honeybees
The life of honeybees in the United States used to be much simpler, but now beekeepers are navigating a gauntlet ...
GM debate distracts from urgent need to address food security and sustainability
Once again, there are calls to reopen the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops. I find these calls frustrating and ...
Oregonian editorial: GMO labeling push ‘stigmatizes products’, sows confusion
The Oregonian, known for its independent and mostly liberal views on policy issues, has come out with an editorial on ...
US trade official: Biotech and organics can work together to sustainably feed growing planet
Jack Bobo, chief of Biotechnology and Textile Trade Policy and senior advisor for biotechnology in the Department of State's Bureau ...
