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.
Holding Monsanto and other corporations accountable
What does it mean to hold a corporation accountable and responsible? The Monsanto Roundup resistance story has been in plain sight for ...
Beefing up livestock with GM crops
New methods of genome editing for precise DNA changes of living organisms could make varieties of crops easier for farm animals ...
US regulators sitting on non-browning Arctic Apple approval
A Canadian company petitioned USDA regulators two years ago to “deregulate” – approve for unrestricted cultivation and marketing — a ...
Sec of Ag: Technology offers alternative to mandatory GMO labeling
Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of Agriculture, told a House subcommittee his department is talking with the U.S. Food and Drug ...
India can only gain from more GM crops
An Indian technical expert committee recently recommended that the Supreme Court declare a 10-year ban on field trials of GM ...
GM and organics can coexist
The biggest farming group in the US has backed moves to promote coexistence between organic and biotech farmers. With a ...
How Grist’s Nathanael Johnson changed his mind on GMOs
Journalist and author Nathanael Johnson was skeptical of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) when he began a six-month investigative series about their ...
British scientists urge Europe to revamp GMO regulation
Europe’s stringent regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops has no rational basis and should be revamped to allow countries who ...
GE labeling measures moving through California and Colorado
California’s 2012 food-labeling ballot measure, rejected by state voters, makes a return from the grave tomorrow with a public hearing ...
Organic activist criticizes proposed FDA nutrition labels for leaving GMOs out
In February, First Lady Michelle Obama launched a media blitz to tout the FDA's proposed new rules for nutrition labels on packaged ...
Can you get E.coli poisoning from GMOs?
Biofortified blogger Layla Katiraee takes on a Farm Wars story about how GMOs allegedly cause E.coli poisoning. Katiraee counters points made ...
Greenpeace calls on Philippines to scrap Golden Rice, claims it provides no vitamin benefits
Insisting on the potential threats of GMOs to human health and the environment, environmental groups urged Philippine Agriculture Secretary Proceso ...
GMO corn seed distribution trials in Uganda postponed to 2015
Maize farmers who have been expecting to plant new, improved maize varieties at the National Crop Resources Research Institute (NACRRI) ...
Why Europeans are reluctant to embrace GMOs
Many European Union countries do allow imports of GMO corn and soybeans from the U.S. Those GMO products are used ...
Happy Birthday Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution
March 25, 2014 marks the 100th birthday of Dr. Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), who is widely recognized as the Father of ...
‘Non-GMO’ to trump ‘organic’ as new consumer buzz word in 2014
Consumers want 'Non-GMO' now, more so even than 'organic,' according to a new study published by Progressive Grocer. In their ...
China buys US corn despite unresolved GMO dispute
China bought its first U.S. corn in more than two months last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday, ...
Scientists create bionic plants
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are giving plants enhanced abilities by placing tiny carbon nanotubes within their cells ...
Heinz latest target in false advertising lawsuits over ‘all natural’ claims and GMOs
Heinz has vowed to vigorously defend itself after becoming the latest food giant to be targeted in a false advertising ...
10 GM crops reapproved for ‘confined field trials’ in India
Taking a major step forward to scientifically assess 'risk' and 'safety' aspects of transgenic crops, the Indian government's top regulator ...
Norman Borlaug’s daughter decries anti-GMO ‘fear mongering’
Julie Borlaug will be among dozens of family members coming to Washington next week to honor the 100th birthday of ...
Texas GMO labeling advocates face stiff opposition
When Eric Herm heard in 2005 that genetically modified cottonseeds were the latest innovation on the market, he thought he ...
High level math literacy linked to GMO acceptance
Penn State University researchers say they may have found a link between math comprehension and people's ability to understand messages ...
India’s GM crop success bedevils critics
It’s best two dissect two separate strains of the [anit-GMO] argument [in India]: first, that there is a wave of ...
GMO labeling bill derailed in Florida
A bill that would have required companies to label genetically modified foods in Florida will likely not be heard in ...
Top 10 GMO answers that consumers want
The results of a new national survey, commissioned by GMO Answers and the Council for Biotechnology Information, identify the leading questions consumers ...
GM-free family farms can fight global food crisis
We have a global food crisis and it is getting worse. Transformative changes are needed in our food, agriculture and ...
