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.
Green’s GM war costing millions of lives
The Soil Association (SA), Britain's foremost organic food organization, is indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of children because ...
More risk from conventional breeding than with genetic modification
Fred Gould, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, used Lenape potatoes as an example of risk and uncertainty. Often, people frame ...
The Promise of GMOs: Removing cancer causing mycotoxins from our food supply
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
General Mills says GMO Cheerios not boosting sales, ‘no’ to formulating more GMO free products
Ken Powell, the chairman and chief executive officer of General Mills, Inc. has a simple answer for anyone wondering if ...
Hungarian government opposes GMO corn
The Hungarian government will continue taking all measures necessary to prevent the growing of DuPont Pioneer 1507 genetically modified (GMO) ...
Genetically altered barley could boost Scotland’s whisky industry
Scientists are planning genetically to alter barley in a bid to boost Scotland’s whisky industry. Barley is a key ingredient ...
Sorry Greenpeace, Golden Rice is a win for nutrition and health
Greenpeace’s stand on golden rice is rather cynical and their article in support of their position offers bad science. It ...
Sampling of leading chefs skeptical about genetically modified foods
As part of the Daily Meal's special report on GMOs, the website asked seven leading chefs, including Floyd Cardoz, Frank ...
More consumers look for ‘Non GMO’ label than for organics
About 19 percent of shoppers look for foods labeled non-GMO, trumping the 16 percent who look for organic labels. For ...
Oregon organic farmers say cross-pollination could endanger their niche crops
Twenty years after the first commercial varieties of genetically modified foods went on sale, farmers have embraced biotech crops that ...
Activist says GMO crops cause increase pesticide use
My problem with GMOs in plants grown for food is that most manipulation involves making them able to better withstand ...
GMOs are a lot more boring than the scare debate about them suggests
GMOs constrict a debate that really ought to be much broader. Take drought resistance. An almighty rumble has been brewing ...
Australia must commit to develop genetically engineered livestock to meet global demand
Genetically engineered livestock will be critical to feeding the world's projected population of 9 billion people by 2050, according to ...
Anti-GMO farmer debates Monsanto spokesperson
To many foes of GMOs, most definitely including a good number of small farmers, the multinational Monsanto Company, headquartered in ...
It’s not easy going ‘non-GMO,’ say US food companies
U.S. food companies are rushing to offer consumers thousands of products free of genetically modified ingredients but are finding the ...
Biofortified analysis: Do GMOs offer nutritional advantages?
As part of Biology Fortified's serious The Promise of GMO's, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs ...
Backdoor effort in Washington State to label, stigmatize GM salmon
House Bill 2143 says consumers have the right to know exactly what kind of fish they are getting thrown at ...
Q: Why are we still shouting about GMOs? A: Because we’re not listening.
Why is it so hard for scientists and the public to agree about the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial backs labeling but not over health concerns
The GMO-free label on Cheerios is an indication that the consumer has won a battle for more information and transparency ...
American Soybean Association joins call for federal GMO labeling solution
The American Soybean Association is urging Congress to seek a federal solution to GMO labeling. Earlier this month, the ASA ...
Interactive graphic: Using agricultural technologies for sustainable food security
The International Food Policy Research has developed the Agritech Toolbox, an interactive online tool that demonstrates “how alternative agricultural practices ...
Do GMOs have to end world hunger in order to be desirable crops?
GMOs should not be held to impossible standards or justified with lofty world-saving promises—their proven, real-world value is enough to ...
GMO ban law up for vote in country of Georgia
Living genetically modified organisms will not be freely imported to Georgia and will only be permitted entry if planted in ...
Bad things can happen when food companies listen to anti-GMO activists instead of consumers
In removing genetically modified ingredients from Cheerios, General Mills joins the growing number of companies that are bending, not to ...
Princeton bioethicist/activist Peter Singer makes case to soften opposition to GMOs, Golden Rice
When genetically modified crops were first developed in the 1980’s, there were grounds for caution. Would these crops be safe ...
France passes decree banning planting of GM maize
France has published a decree to prevent the planting of modified maize as a stop-gap measure, while the government works ...
On GMOs, France becoming scientific backwater
France does not walk in the footsteps of Norman Borlaug. Half a century of rising farm productivity has let France ...
