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.
Trade barriers fan GMO misconceptions in Africa
Monsanto attracts quite a bit of criticism for its transgenic crops and seeds, more commonly referred to as Genetically Modified Organisms, ...
Fear over light-up plants exaggerated and unnecessary
“What if someone decides it would be cute to light up a national forest?” asked Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at ...
Campaign to make Cyprus a GMO-free zone launched
A campaign was launched by environment commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou yesterday to declare Cyprus as a country free from genetically modified ...
Lusk: Washington Initiative 522 on GMO labeling
This time last year, California's Proposition 37 to label genetically engineered (GE) food ingredients was highly discussed. After a steady, ...
Safe pesticide levels found in Kauai air
The County of Kaua'i and the state Department of Agriculture today released a report on environmental health issues in Waimea ...
New push for nationwide ban on GMO crops in Costa Rica
Community organizations, environmentalists and lawmakers are making a renewed push for a nationwide moratorium on genetically modified crops in a ...
In defense of GM crops
Genetically Modified (GM) crops are plants which have had their DNA altered in some way, to improve a particular trait ...
China must switch to growing GM food before it’s too late
A leading agricultural scientist's unusually frank endorsement of growing genetically modified food has reignited a debate over whether the country ...
Amish use GMOs
"More than once I’ve thrown ["the Amish use GMOs, you know?"] into a conversation–in real life or on twitter–and I’m ...
Dr. Bronner’s soapbox: Working GMO labels into a lather
Perhaps it’s no surprise that a company famous for filling every available inch of its product labels with words favors ...
Campaign to make Cyprus a GMO-free zone
A campaign was launched by environment commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou yesterday to declare Cyprus as a country free from genetically modified organisms (GMO) ...
Kauai County Council to consider diluted bill pertaining to pesticide, GMO rules
A hotly debated proposed ordinance pertaining to pesticide use and farming of genetically modified crops on the Garden Isle will ...
Letter: GM crops are not a safety concern in Canada
In a letter responding to the opinion piece, "I dream of a GE-free B.C." published in the Richmond Review last month, CropLife ...
Why GMO science may be rejected
You’d be forgiven for thinking science is under attack. Climate science has been challenged by deniers and sceptics, vaccination rates ...
Despite continuing opposition, Monsanto will not stop opposing GMO labeling efforts
Two decades after Robert T. Fraley pioneered Monsanto’s first genetically engineered crops, the public debate about the technology still rages ...
Oregon moves to bar counties from blocking GMOS
Environmental groups and local food activists are livid that a provision they believe would allow more genetically modified organisms to ...
All GM foods are not created equal
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe is a podcast that I enjoy every week. This week, the panel discussed the ...
Tanzania farmers should have the freedom to choose to embrace technology
Tanzania farmers, whose knowledge on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is very limited, should not be forced to embrace it, but ...
Angola succeeds in application of biotechnology in agriculture
Angola is recording significant progress in actions related to the application of plant biotechnology in the agricultural sector, in the ...
Philippines: GMO research has support
One of the country’s leading scientist-educators recently lauded the strong support given by the academic and science communities to researches on agricultural ...
Hits and misses in Boston Review’s GMO debate
Reasoned, refereed exchanges about GMOs between opposing factions are rare. So when I saw that the Boston Review had manufactured that kind ...
The GMO debate is a distraction from larger issues like water shortages and climate change
More than 150 people gathered in the Hardin Hall auditorium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the first of the ...
Commentary: Biotechnology could encourage outside investment into Africa
Knowledge about genetically modified organisms or genetically engineered crops is extremely small by African farmers, but their acceptance of GMOs ...
Biotechnology continues to change the face of Canada’s canola industry
Maurice Delage says he only needs to look at his canola crop for proof of how biotechnology has helped his ...
In GMO ads, both sides make mostly false claims about I-522 costs
Dueling TV ads now airing about Initiative 522 — the statewide ballot measure to require labeling of some genetically engineered ...
Video: The evolution of biotechnology in the Philippines
Since biotech corn was commercialized in the Philippines in late 2002, its adoption has increased consistently every year. The benefits ...
‘Unethical’ not to use GM crops in countries facing famine
Europe’s chief scientific adviser has claimed it is “unethical” not to use genetically modified crops in developing countries facing famine ...
