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.
Q&A: Hawaii mayors on pros and cons of GM crops on their islands
Hawaii Business magazine interviewed the three Neighbor Island Hawaii mayors on various topic including the future of agriculture and GMOs. Edited ...
Looking at the hard evidence on GM cotton and farmer suicide in India
Most of the cotton grown in India comes from GM seeds, referred to as Bt cotton having had the addition ...
The GMO labeling fight is heating up in Massachusetts
Large food manufacturers and industry representatives are fighting a renewed push to force them to disclose genetically modified ingredients in ...
In Vermont a state senator and organic farmer push for GMO labeling
David Zuckerman, an organic farmer and state senator, is a key advocate for ensuring that foods containing genetically modified ingredients be ...
Vietnam slow and cautious when it comes to GMOs
Speaking during the seminar launch of ISAAA Brief 46 on Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops for 2013 on February 20, 2014 in Hanoi, Dr ...
Q&A: Hawaii mayors on pros and cons of GM crops on their islands
Hawaii Business magazine interviewed the three Neighbor Island Hawaii mayors on various topic including the future of agriculture and GMOs. Edited ...
GMOs are today’s kiwis
In the 20th Century, a new food was introduced to the human diet. Grown by farmers in New Zealand without ...
Opinion: Death by GM contamination
How did all this happen? Easily. By steady, unrelenting persuasion by a chemical-cum-GM seed multinational sitting around in Pakistan the ...
Black Swan author Nassim Taleb warns of unpredictable dangers from GMOs
New York University professor Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, which many believe foreshadowed the events leading up to the Great ...
Filipino farmers embrace GM eggplant when informed
A study contends that 96 percent of Filipino farmers are willing to shift to a genetically modified (GM) eggplant and ...
Broadening coalition supports federal pre-emption of piecemeal state GMO labeling laws
A broadening coalition of 29 U.S. organizations is urging Congress to develop federal standards to guide the labeling of food ...
Gene identified that may make it easier to engineer plants
A recent discovery could lead to easier genetic modification of plant varieties considered recalcitrant to standard methods, including varieties of ...
China wants to develop its own GMOs
China has long faced unfavorable food math: It feeds a fifth of the world’s population on a seventh of its ...
Monsarno (aka Monsanto) makes an appearance on the ‘Simpsons’
On Sunday's episode of "The Simpsons," Monsanto — in a plot line surely not endorsed by the company — is the ...
Triple-threat GM rice protects against drought, salty soils and lack of fertilizer
For the first time, a single strain of genetically modified rice has been developed to handle drought, salty soils and ...
Another farmer’s response to Chipotle’s agriculture take down
In the boardrooms of Madison Avenue, they call it “values branding”: a marketing strategy in which a company tries to ...
Can a GMO and non-GMO coexistence policy work in the US?
They don’t get along like peas in a pod, but farmers who plant genetically modified crops need to coexist with ...
Syngenta halts sales of new GMO corn seed in Canada
Syngenta AG said on Monday it had halted commercial sales in Canada of corn seed containing a new and controversial genetically ...
The people behind GMO papayas
Last August, I was invited to speak about genetically engineered crops at a GMO Summit organized by the Hawai’i Crop ...
Julie Borlaug, daughter of ‘Green Revolution’ founder, says biotech necessary to fight hunger
In her address at the 9th annual Ag Issues Forum in San Antonio, Julie Borlaug, granddaughter of Nobel Peace prize laureate ...
Push to label GMOs in Florida
In Florida there's a renewed push to label our food that contains genetically modified organisms or GMO's. Some say consumers ...
With risks and rewards, GMOs are here to stay
I recently learned my kids’ favorite cereal, Cheerios, is full of GMO ingredients. Learning this made me wonder how common ...
Pesticides in paradise?
Many Kauai locals have been outraged to discover that their island paradise is also home to a proliferating genetically engineered ...
In Hawaii, Big Island judge issues restraining order blocking new GMO law
The battle over so-called GMOs took another turn in a Hilo courtroom last Friday. At issue is a law that requires ...
Cameroon currently testing GMOs to increase cotton production
According to a report by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) revealed by Commodaafrica, “seven African ...
Oregon punts GMO label bill but other initiatives abound
For the third time, the Oregon Legislature has punted on a bill centered on the labeling of genetically modified food ...
What would a world without GMOs look like? You might be surprised
We had a little thought experiment in mind: what if the activists got their wish? What would a world without ...
