Daily Food & Agriculture 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.
Starbucks newest target of anti-GMO campaigners
Green America's GMO Inside campaign today launched a major push to get Starbucks, America's largest coffee chain with more than ...
Ecologist challenges claims that GMOs and conventional foods are ‘substantially equivalent’
Several new studies carried out by scientists independent of the biotech industry are showing up glaring differences between GMOs and ...
How did Monsanto become the ‘evil face’ of GMOs?
Over the past decade, Monsanto has become a pop cultural bogeyman, the face of corporate evil. The company and its ...
Even if the FDA approves GMO salmon Kroger and Safeway won’t sell it
Kroger and Safeway, the largest retail grocery companies in the U.S., have reportedly agreed not to sell genetically modified salmon ...
Smart Balance brand going non-GMO
Smart Balance, a popular line of buttery spreads, will transition to non-genetically-engineered ingredients, parent company Boulder Brands Inc. said. Non-GMO Smart Balance ...
Religious shareholder activist group backs labeling GMOs citing potential “harmful side effects”
Fear of the unknown hazards of technology has been the inspiration for science fiction cautionary tales from Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein to Japanese ...
Behind India’s decision to authorize GMO field trials
India's Environment Minister Veerappa Moily has done the right thing by allowing field trials of genetically modified (GM) cotton, maize, ...
Biotech innovation in Egypt
In a symposium featuring the ISAAA Brief 46: Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops 2013 in Egypt, Prof. Raamzy Stino, ...
GMO cereals have less vitamins, but maybe that’s not a bad thing
t is a fact that the new formulations do have fewer vitamins than those containing GMO ingredients. Industry site BakeryandSnacks.com ...
Organic farmers say USDA needs to control GMO contamination
Growing crops free from contamination by genetically modified crops and the pesticides used on those biotech versions is getting more ...
Greenpeace slams India’s decision clearing GMO field trials
Environmental watchdog Greenpeace slammed Indian's environment minister Veerappa Moily's decision to allow field trials of certain genetically modified (GM) food crops ...
Is Round-up in the air a health danger? (Answer: No)
Last week the anti-biotech websites exploded with the news: “Roundup Weedkiller Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples, Gov ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
Celebrity “meat” launches bioethics discussion
Bite Labs wants to grow meats from celebrity tissue to make into artisanal salami. The company wants to "prompt widespread ...
British Columbia is hotbed of anti-GMO sentiment
Studies suggesting health effects from eating food derived from GE crops remain highly controversial. The Canadian government evaluates novel foods ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
Biology Fortified profile: Do GMOs and sustainability go together?
Started on Halloween of 2008, Biofortified.org pooled together the work of various scientists who were frustrated by the environmental movement’s entire approach ...
Finanacial and legal woes for GMOs
I noted how an Australian farmer was suing a neighboring farmer for contaminating his organic fields with Monsanto's GM seed, ...
India approves GMO trials for broader array of crops
India's environment minister, M. Veerappa Moily, on Thursday said that the ministry has approved confined field trials of genetically modified ...
GMOs need to focus on the consumer not the producer
British consumers will only embrace genetically modified foods when traits are developed which provide them with significant benefits, Justin King, ...
Monsanto develops hardier strain of corn that yields 4 times normal litigation (LOL)
Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto unveiled its latest strain of genetically modified corn Wednesday, claiming that the new, hardier seed yields ...
Video: Feelings, Facts, Food and GMOs
Andrew Revkin led a Google Hangout discussion with Shelley Boris, a chef committed to conscientious cuisine and author of “Fresh ...
On Maui anti-GMO tour, Don Huber refuses to engage scientists on questionable glyphosate claims
Dr. Don Huber spoke in Maui as part of an event that kicked off a political campaign to ban genetically ...
Will other companies follow Chipotle’s anti-GMO lead?
Chipotle's anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) mission coincided with a 30% jump in fourth quarter profits, and adaptable restaurant chains may soon ...
Video: New GMO labeling bill introduced in California
Dr. Ruth Kava, the American Council on Science and Health's (ACSH) Senior Fellow in Nutrition, discusses the new bill GMO ...
How to concoct a conspiracy theory about vaccines, GMOs, climate science and other controversial issues
A case study. 1. Find something online that is related to your subject. 2. Cherry-pick partial quotes that seem to support your position (here, ...
5 Surprises in the USDA’s study of GE crops
The USDA's study of genetically engineered crops in the United States is a pretty dry and unsurprising document, but when read ...
