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.
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 & ...
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 ...
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 & ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
Middle schoolers say, “Of course GMOs are not harmful, but maybe…”
History laughs at the losing teams whose scientific theories crumble under the weight of evidence. The Sun orbits the Earth ...
Video: Mark Lynas says, “GMOs are green”
Mark Lynas, a UK-based environmentalist and former anti-biotech activist, spoke to Real Agriculture editor Lyndsey Smith before giving the keynote address at ...
USDA report says GM crops show mix of benefits, concerns
After more than 15 years of using genetically modified crops, U.S. farmers are continuing to see an array of benefits, ...
Latest on the latest anti-GMO scare: Dangerous plant GMO is in your blood
The truth is that there may or may not be plant DNA in your blood. The single research paper making ...
Cornell scientist: Exaggerated caution slows adoption of GM crops
In normal science, risk has a precise but deceptively simple meaning: risk equals the probability of some hazard. Anyone booking ...
Maui citizens group pushes for GMO moratorium
Come November, the citizens of Maui County could be voting on a temporary suspension of all genetically modified crop production ...
GMO 2.0: New generation of blight-resistant foods
Blight-resistant vegetables could be great for farmers, as well as for the environment. Potatoes are sprayed against blight up to ...
Southern sugar cane industry, threatened by deadly fungus, look to GMO solution
Brown rust fungus poses a serious threat to Louisiana's nearly $1 billion sugarcane industry. Thanks to funding from the American ...
Whole Foods under microscope for promoting pseudoscience on GMOs, health
A significant portion of what Whole Foods sells is based on simple pseudoscience. And sometimes that can spill over into ...
European scientists on African mission to break biotech logjam
Africa is expected to be the next target of GM food companies, as European scientists and policymakers travel to Ethiopia ...
