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.
The great GMO labeling con
Marc Bellemare, assistant professor in the Department of Agriculture at the University of Minnesota, writes that the "right to know" ...
New York Times comes out against mandatory labeling, urges voluntary action
The New York Times has released an editorial coming out against mandatory GMO labeling laws like Washington's I-522, which is ...
Grocery Manufacturers to lobby feds to prempt states from requiring GMO labels
Eat Drink Politics is reporting that internal documents acquired from the Grocery Manufacturers Association reveal that the group plans to lobby ...
Richmond, California council backs GMO labeling bill
In a 5 to 2 vote the Richmond council passed a motion to begin drafting an ordinance that would require ...
British Columbia: Local politicians won’t take stance in GMO debate
North Okanagan politicians want assurances genetically modified organisms are safe, but they won't wade into the contentious debate of whether ...
Kauai County councilmembers bicker over GMO and pesticide fact-finding group, await state input
A Kauai City Council subcommittee has been tasked with building a group to assess pesticide and GMO use on the ...
GM crops ban to be extended in South Australia
South Australia will extend a moratorium on genetically modified crops until at least 2019. SA is the only mainland state ...
GM food-labeling fight may be shifting to legislatures
The battle to label genetically engineered foods won’t be stalled by the defeat of Washington Initiative 522, but the arena ...
Activists should target “Big Ag,” not GMOs
In response to Washington State's rejection of I-522 to label genetically engineered foods, Guardian's environmental writer Richard Schiffman believes that the energy ...
China’s GMO debate stuck in ‘stalemate’ between scientists and anti-GMO activists
The debate in China over expanding the use of genetically modified crops has reached a stalemate. Analysts say that despite ...
Evidenced by failure of I-522, “money talks” also applies to food politics
"Can money buy elections? Apparently so," says Marion Nestle, NYU professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, in response ...
GMOs worsen farmer economic status, says prominent anti-GMO activist
Anti-GMO activist and founding director of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology Vandana Shiva writes: The debate over ...
Foodie critic atttacks Scientific American’s anti-labeling editorial
In a Civil Eats post responding to Scientific American's anti-labeling editorial, Ralph Loglisci, former Project Director for the Johns Hopkins Healthy ...
‘Battle Royale’ over Hawaii County’s anti-GMO Bill 113 throws dark cloud over farmers
Scientists are worried that their research will be negatively impacted if the Hawaii County Council approves Bill 113, which would ...
Genetically modified ‘golden rice’ coming to Philippines by 2016
The first genetically-modified rice to be commercially available could be approved for production in the Philippines in two to three ...
European Anti-GMO “resistance industry” threatens biosecurity in Tanzania
Scientists are attempting to combat food security issues in Tanzania with genetically modified crops, writes Sharon Schmickle in The Guardian. "African ...
After I-522 defeat, Natural News’ Mike Adams says ‘democracy doesn’t work,’ anti-GMOers should ‘go for their corporate throats’
Anti-GMO activist Mike Adams, founder of Natural News, issued a tirade in reaction to the I522 defeat. "The Grocery Manufacturers ...
EU Commission recommends approval for Europe’s third ever GM crop
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday that governments approve only the third ever genetically modified crop for cultivation in Europe, ...
Most Americans pay little attention to genetically modified foods, survey says
A national survey shows that most Americans pay little attention to the debate over genetically modified foods, despite extensive media ...
Vatican strongly endorses GMOs as tool to help world’s poor
The Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences had convened a select group of 40 scientific experts from around the world to ...
EU farming groups express concerns about overly restrictive GMO regulations
The restrictions on growing GM crops in the European Union are greater than anywhere else in the world. Efforts to ...
Corn farmers urge Philippine President Aquino to back GM crops
The Philippine Maize Federation Inc. in a resolution asked President Benigno Aquino III to continue the field trials of GM ...
Genetically modified microbes are factories, creating vaccines, medicines and foods
By inserting genetic instructions into bacteria or yeast—thereby modifying their genetic code—scientists have used microbes to create all sorts of ...
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps uses products to fight for GMO labeling
David Bronner, who runs Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, has been a prominent voice in Washington's GMO labeling Initiative I-522. He ...
Opinion: Hawaii Island Bill 113 is misguided, anti-science
Dr. Susan Miyasaka, a Hawaii native and Agronomist at the University of Hawaii's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, ...
China’s anti-GMO activists exploit fears of infertility
In a new blog post by Kevin Folta, interim chairman the University of Florida’s horticulture program, he describes the anti-GMO ...
EU prepares draft of GMO maize cultivation approval
The European Union is on course to approve cultivation of a new type of genetically modified maize for the first ...
