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.
Center for Food Safety calls claims of GE food ‘industry propaganda’
It seems like every day the food movement is gaining more power in the fight for the consumers' right to ...
Monsanto, so often demonized, is welcomed in food insecure Vietnam
In its latest show of endorsing controversial genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Vietnam is set to allow three foreign companies to ...
Illinois farmer turns GMO controversy is “teaching opportunity”
Larry Bucher typically harvests the same crop of questions from strangers, acquaintances and dinner party guests. Once they learn he ...
Walla Walla, Washington Union-Bulletin editorial: Voluntarily labeling of GMOs is a sound approach
Although science has not determined food with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are dangerous, or even unhealthy, some folks are squeamish ...
How did Monsanto come to be the Devil in the GMO debate?
Which is the real Monsanto? The one poisoning the world and failing to improve crops with genetically modified seeds, or ...
Independent scientists dismember new Seralini pesticide scare study
Controversial French biologist Gilles-Eric Séralini's report in BioMed Research International describes how pesticides kill cultured human cells, with the hair-raising conclusion that pesticides may ...
Bangladesh debuts cultivation of Bt brinjal this week
Bangladesh formally started the cultivation of the country's first genetically modified (GM) crop--Bt Brinjal (eggplant) today. As part of the ...
Australians create fungus resistant wheat by removing a gene
According to John Curtin Distinguished Professor Richard Oliver, Director of the Australian Centre for Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens (ACNFP) at Curtin, ...
EU governments split over new GM grain approval
BRUSSELS, Feb 11 (Reuters) - European Union ministers hit deadlock on Tuesday on whether to let a new strain of ...
A progressive looks for common ground in the GMO debate
Skeptics of GM food should come to grips with the fact that the act of genetic manipulation is itself not ...
Why “non-GMO” Cheerios are a marketing ploy
What is General Mills protecting us from with GMO-free Cheerios? To start with, there are no genetically modified oats grown ...
Psychology explains why many people fear GM foods
The brain is first and foremost in charge of keeping us alive and it uses everything it can to figure ...
If genetically modified foods are so bad, where’s the proof?
There is no scientific evidence of harm from GMOs, whereas the benefits could be huge. Instead of being destructive , ...
Filipino farmers fight misinformation on GMOs
A surprising number of Filipino farmers have decided in favor of the new technology of genetic modification. The farmers’ experiences ...
Shoppers who want organic products don’t need new GMO labels
Groups such as the Non-GMO Project have already paved the way for labeling measures that inform consumers and to ensure ...
Critiquing the eco-philosophy of Vandana Shiva
There is no figure in the anti-GMO movement that commands more respect than Vandana Shiva. An Indian writer and activist, ...
Got pot? Cannabis genome map could lead to new medicines, industrial products
It's called the Cannabis Genomic Research Initiative and it's being led by 37-year-old Nolan Kane, an assistant professor with Colorado ...
Biotech Infographic: Global innovations for February 2014
Arrests in China, biotech crops in Russia and MaRS Innovation: our February Monthly Map. Read the full, original article: Monthly Map ...
Can organics and GMOs coexist? Landmark case goes to court in Australia
Organic farmer Steve Marsh is suing neighboring farmer Michael Baxter for as-yet-unspecified damages over alleged nuisance and negligence, which allegedly ...
Anti-biotech backlash attempts to reframe Green Revolution in negative light
Can we agree that the Green Revolution was, on balance, a good thing? You know, kinda like the industrial revolution. Yes, ...
Mom’s eye view: Over-labeling of “non-GMO” products can be confusing, misleading
Corn, soy, cotton, and canola are some of the seven genetically modified crops grown in the U.S. Wheat, interestingly enough, is not ...
Video: EU Health Commissioner backs speeding approval of stalled GMO crops
Leading agriculture journalist Ed Bray is joined by Health Commissioner Tonio Borg for an exclusive interview on the revision of EU rules on genetically ...
Maui and Molokai farmers express concern over proposed GMO and pesticide ban
Tuesday, Jan. 28, was a cold, wet and windy day, but the heavy weather did not deter the more than ...
Syngenta-China rift over popular rootworm-resistant GM corn deepens
Syngenta AG, under pressure from U.S. grain exporters to suspend sales of seeds containing a new genetically modified corn trait that ...
Why France remains a global GMO laggard
A notable piece titled France Fails Science Test was recently published in Cosmos by Marcel Kuntz, John Davison and Agnes E. Ricroch, three plant ...
Filipino farmers show increased yields and income from planting biotech corn
Manila, Philippines – Upland farmers in the country planting biotechnology (Bt) corn have increased their net income three-fold per hectare ...
As Kaua’i pesticide exposure data roll in, homes not fields found to be source of most problems
The Garden Island has been quick to report allegations of pesticide-related illnesses, unfortunately it failed to include some crucial data ...
