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.
Anti-GMO sentiments lean to ‘obsessive’ in Arizona
His story is typical of those who preach the dangers of eating genetically modified organisms: Four years ago, Jared Keen ...
Critical evaluation of Ecuadorian worker study suggesting glyphosate might cause extensive health problems
Recently a concerned mother reached out to me[Chair of the University of Florida Horticultural Sciences program Kevin Folta] about information on ...
Tanzanian farmers push for GM Bt cotton approval now
The Tanzania Cotton Board (TCB) is advocating cultivation of GMO in the country stressing that not allowing to do so ...
No peer review of republished Seralini GM corn toxicity rat study
The editor of Environmental Sciences Europe, Henner Hollert, has responded to Nature, which reports: Environmental Sciences Europe (ESEU) decided to re-publish the paper to give ...
New Zealand districts push for restrictions or ban on GE crop field trials
A GE-free Northland is another step closer after councillors in the Far North and Whangarei backed proposed district plan changes ...
Superchicken? Researchers turn to genetics to breed global warming tolerant fowls
For all the concern about how climate change may affect people in cities, people in cars, people and their flood ...
Avoid ‘failed’ GM crop approach to combat ‘superweeds’
Donnelle Eller's eye-opening article on glyphosate-resistant Superweeds details a real threat to Iowa agriculture and raises important questions about responsibility and ...
How GM foods are determined safe to eat in Australia
Foods produced using gene technology are prohibited from sale in Australia and New Zealand unless they have undergone strenuous pre-market ...
Proposed Maui GMO ban would shut farms, spike unemployment, cost millions
Hawaii’s rising movement against genetically modified farming has seen successes in Kauai County and Hawaii County, but the latest proposal ...
New generation of eco-friendly, more healthful genetically modified crops
Most of us who are advocates for sustainable agriculture have a negative view of GMO’s, and with good reason – they ...
Oppostion to GM crops counter-productive to environment, economy and consumer
The news that Britain could soon grow genetically modified crops commercially is a victory for commonsense over irrational opportunism, and ...
Campaign launched to discredit Bill Gates backed vitamin A-enriched GMO banana
The latest nonsense emanating from the Anti camp is this from our friends at GMOFreeUSA: “GMO proponents claim that they ...
Cornell scientist says GMO label would encourage consumers to eat less processed foods
In the short term, the produce industry would probably benefit from legislation requiring foods containing GMOs be labeled as such, ...
New life for Seralini’s GM corn toxicity study but raw data still no where to be seen
A controversial 2012 paper on the effects of genetically modified (GM) maize and the herbicide glyphosate on tumour growth in rats – ...
Hollywood actress Zoe Lister-Jones to star in anti-GMO movie
Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein, the couple behind the 2012 comedy Lola Versus, are in production on their follow-up, a ...
Who’s responsible for regulating GM food in Australia?
With the advent of crop genetic engineering in the 1980s, public controversy and intense public scrutiny over genetically modified (GM) ...
Biotechnology is not dangerous, but profit-hungry corporations’ controlling it is
Since giving my support to the May 24 march against Monsanto, I have taken the time to review some of the more ...
Saskatchewan 4th-generation wheat farmer calls for access to biotechnology
I’m a fourth-generation wheat farmer in Saskatchewan—and one of my longterm goals is to make sure the fifth generation on my ...
Larry King’s celebrity “experts” on GMOs were just uninformed consumers
Ensuring Skype worked properly sent my anxiety levels through the roof, even more so than facing off with Larry King ...
Polling in GMO debate fails to capture meaningful insight into public perception
Several of my colleagues recently conducted a survey in Key West, FL, where the Mosquito Control Board has proposed the ...
Education of public about GM food should begin with chefs
Most high-profile chefs - or at least the ones on TV that have influenced whole generations of 'foodies' - are ...
Zimbabwe would gain from engaging in debate, rather than seeking GM food ban
Food, politics and health have once again come together in a media-friendly cocktail. Two thought-pieces with opposing views on Genetically ...
Republication of Séralini GM corn study does not sway critical scientists
A controversial paper linking genetically modified maize to the development of tumours in rats, which was published in 2012 and ...
Inconclusive results of republished Séralini GM corn toxicity study warrant further research
In 2012, a study was released that seemed at first glance to justify every anti-GMO advocate's worst fears: eating genetically ...
Major flaws remain unaddressed in republished Séralini GM corn toxicity study
A couple of years back a French research study (known as the Séralini.study after its primary author) claimed that rats ...
Costco scares consumers about GM, yet most of its products contain GMOs
Last week, just days after I wrote a very critical article skewering Whole Foods for lying to all of its customers about ...
‘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 ...
