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.
Uproar among French scientists over acquittal of anti-GMO activists who destroyed experimental GM grapevines
French scientists are up in arms over the recent court acquittal of 54 anti-GMO activists who destroyed 70 experimental transgenic ...
Federal agriculture minister backs use of GM technology in Australia
Federal Agriculture Barnaby Joyce has weighed into the controversy over South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell’s appearance at an anti-Monsanto ...
Anti-GMO activists destroy rapeseed trial crops in France to protest mutagenesis, not realizing plants were not mutagenic
Protesters “completely” ruined trials across more than 1 hectare (2.47 acres) on a research plot in the southwestern Charente-Maritime region ...
Are GMO food labels and a ‘right to know’ worth the price?
Whether the labeling debate continues to play out on a state-by-state basis, or the federal government eventually intervenes, chances are ...
Oklahoma State University’s chief wheat breeder claims GM wheat’s promises oversold
The wheat industry has been working for years to gain access to the same technology used to develop high-tech seed ...
All tools, including biotechnology, should be on table to fight global hunger
By 2050, the world population is predicted to increase from 7 billion to 9 billion people, a nearly 30 percent ...
Oregon’s Jackson county’s GM crop ban may face lawsuits based on state’s right-to-farm law
Opponents of a ban on genetically engineered crops passed by Jackson County voters say the prohibition is ripe for a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
