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.
God Move Over (GMO)
Scanning the web for slogans and catch-phrases that slur biotech crops rouses the usual suspects: “frankenfoods,” “our kids are not ...
Taiwan passes new GMO labeling restrictions
Taiwan’s government recently passed a law, which when implemented, will set some new tolerance regulations for food containing genetically modified ...
It’s a state-by-state battle for GMO label advocates
The issue of labeling foods that contain genetically modified ingredients has taken hold in states around the country, and more ...
Center for Food Safety sues USDA over genetically modified alfalfa
A food safety group filed a lawsuit in hopes of forcing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to release documents in court that ...
GMO ban in Oregon could cost more than $200,000, says official
A local ban on genetically modified crops could cost Jackson County, Oregon, more than $200,000 a year to enforce, according ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
