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.
GMO ‘super banana’ aims to tackle food security by addressing malnutrition
Scientists are hoping to improve food security through greater yields and less waste, particularly in the face of climate change, ...
Rejected U.S. corn triggers Chinese consumers’ ‘concern’ over GM foods
The announcement that quarantine authorities have returned 1.25 million tons of U.S. corn shipments after detecting an unapproved genetically modified ...
Oregon GMO labeling initiative heading for November ballot
Campaign organizers say they'll submit more than 150,000 signatures on Wednesday to place an initiative on the November ballot that ...
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 ...
Is genetic modification of foods ‘ethical’?
Food is cultural, social and deeply personal, so it’s no surprise that modifications to the way food is produced, distributed ...
Parents seeking non-GMO foods driving organic sales
Parents' desires to avoid genetically modified organisms (GMO) are partially driving the increased sales of organic products, according to a ...
Dispute over use of GM seeds in El Salvador cited as cause of delay on aid package
Even as the White House scrambles to deal with the flood of child migrants from Central America, a $277 million ...
Republished Seralini GM corn toxicity study now ‘infamous’ for poor quality
The strange odyssey of the paper, Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize, by Seralini ...
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 ...
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 – ...
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 ...
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) ...
