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.
11 agricultural technologies that can safeguard food supply under climate change conditions
While the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warns that the worst effects of climate change are yet ...
UK agriculture secretary Owen Patterson aggressively advocating GM crops in Europe
Europe is making another attempt to break its longstanding logjam over the production and marketing of GM crops. But huge ...
German poultry producers backing away from 14-year commitment to using only non-GE soybeans
German producers have decided to feed their poultry genetically engineered soybeans, which biotech proponents say bodes well for transgenic crops ...
New policies in Iowa to help grow state’s biotech industry
The close of the 2014 session of the Iowa Legislature brought new policy that will help grow the state's biotech ...
Honeybees and monarch butterflies on decline but GMOs are not to blame
Both honeybees and monarch butterflies are on the decline, and scientists have yet to figure out exactly why. Many critics are ...
Voters ban GMO crops in southern Oregon
Voters in two southern Oregon counties approved measures to ban genetically engineered crop. Jackson County voters approved a measure by a ...
Proposed biotech reactor would produce enough fake meat to feed small town
The movement to sell locally sourced, artisanal food and drink has picked up steam in recent years as many consumers ...
GM key to battle growing impact of climate change on farming
Climate change is turning farm fields brown in the Midwest and around the world just as global demand for food ...
Critics challenge South Australian Agriculture Minister’s anti-GMO stance
Critics have challenged South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell to “put up or shut up” on the science and safety ...
GM alfalfa’s release in Canada delayed as farmers reject it
A GM version of alfalfa, a staple in livestock feed, was supposed to be launched in Canada this year. The ...
Are GMOs the left-wing’s climategate?
When Vermont became the first state last week to require labeling genetically modified foods, it was hardly alone. Maine and Connecticut have already passed ...
How insects evolve resistance to GMO Bt cotton
An international team has discovered what happens on a molecular basis to insects that evolved resistance to genetically modified cotton ...
Consumers prefer GMO sweet corn, grown without insecticides, to conventional corn in independent trial
In a farm-to-fork trial conducted jointly by the University of Guelph and Birkbank Farms in Canada, genetically engineered (GE) Bt ...
National Geographic ignoring crop biotechnology in ‘Future of Food’ series
Although it’s headquartered in the United States, National Geographic is a global publication. For more than 25 years, I’ve read it here ...
Farmers stage protest against GMOs in Ghana
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) staged a demonstration in Tamale to express their disapproval with the introduction of ...
GMO labeling push unsuccessful in GMO-producing Midwest
Calls to label genetically modified food have rumbled loudly through the East and West Coast states but have produced only ...
GMO labels: When having more information can be bad
There are a variety of contexts where the government mandates the kind of information that companies must put on their ...
Video: Non-browning GMO Arctic Apple maker defends its safety and nutrition while some Canadian retailers reject it
Federal agencies in the U.S. and Canada are expected to soon give approval to the non-browning Arctic apple, but a group ...
Fourth-generation Australian farmer: GM, chemicals and organic methods needed for sustained food security
Skepti-Forum has begun featuring essays by readers on the GMO controversy. We’re going to be featuring some of them on the GLP ...
Dispute erupts over report Chinese military may ban GM food to ‘protect soldiers’ health’
Genetically modified (GM) grain has been banned for security reasons from consumption by military personnel in the city of Xiangyang, ...
Consumer Union’s Michael Hansen accused of misleading legislators on GMO safety
The ideologically driven, anti-technology campaign to restrict access to safe, sustainable and affordable foods improved through biotechnology got a boost ...
Cornell GMO labeling study: 25,000 labeled items could add up to $1500 to NY family food costs per year
Current U.S. food labeling policy does not require the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. Voluntary labeling is an option, ...
Growing movement against allowing mutagenesis and cell fusion hybrid seeds in organic agriculture
It is spring planting time for farms, and, if hybrid seeds are being planted, chances are some might be genetically ...
University report blames Greenpeace, radical environmentalists for blocking GM Golden Rice, costing millions of lives
A University of California report has exposed the injustice that prohibits a genetically engineered additive to rice. Without it the ...
Former US Secretary of Agriculture Glickman criticizes organic industry for misleading marketing
A blockbuster report by the scientific-integrity watchdog Academics Review examines the last 25 years of academic and organic industry market ...
Mandatory labeling of GMOs does not provide consumer choice
During a short time period in the late 1990s, some food products in the European Union were labeled as containing ...
Mark Bittman’s tepid endorsement of GM overshadowed by shallow attacks on modern agriculture
Does New York Times food writer Mark Bittman get anything right? I doubt it. His recent commentary, “Leave Organic Out of ...
