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.
A hippie’s defense of GE foods
I’m a vegetarian yoga instructor, and even I can tell the case against genetically modified food is overblown. Let me ...
Kenya: Scientists call for lifting GM ban
Scientists called on the Kenyan government on Thursday to remove the ban imposed on the importation of genetically modified food ...
A gale of fresh air on GE crops in the UK
Exactly a week before this editorial was written, Owen Paterson, the UK Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and ...
Unraveling 5 popular anti-GE claims
The mainstream scientific community, specific science organizations and the scientific literature converge on the conclusion that genetically modified foods are ...
Suppressing technology will not feed Hawaii or the world
Roseanne Barr would like to burn down my papaya farm in Hawaii. The wealthy actress said so earlier this month, ...
Elle Magazine hops aboard the GMO Fright Train
As I have previously observed, “the belief that GMO foods are deadly or potentially harmful” has come to dominate the ...
GM crops and real risk
The World Apple Report has tracked the perilous road that Okanagan Specialty Fruits has been travelling to get approval for ...
GMOs may feed the world using fewer pesticides
Walter De Jong shouts over the roar of fans in the greenhouse. He’s telling me about the seedlings beside him, ...
Sequenced palm oil genome paves the way for sustainable plantations
Few environmentalists feel any fondness for the oil palm, with its connections to deforestation in the tropics. But the waxy ...
Purdue scientists identify two genes in soybean that could prevent $250 million in lost yield
Purdue University researchers have identified two genes within the soybean genome that are highly resistant to a soilborne pathogen that ...
UK: Farmer recalls GM rapeseed trial after Monsanto’s decision
Monsanto Co.'s decision to withdraw applications for approval of genetically modified crops in the European Union was "deeply disappointing," said ...
UK: Public fears over ‘Frankenstein food’ may be easing, poll finds
More people support rather than oppose the growing of genetically modified crops and more of them are prepared to buy ...
Debate: Is the FDA’s review process for GE animals fit for purpose?
To explore whether the regulatory process in question is fit for purpose, the Food & Drug Law Institute's Food and ...
Pooping Canada geese may have spread GM wheat seeds
Canada geese may have spread viable seeds of genetically modified wheat grown at the Central Experimental Farm, documents from Agriculture ...
Finanical Times editorial: Europe is right to be cautious over GM crops
Monsanto, the US agricultural group, has abandoned its decade-long bid for permission to grow a range of genetically modified crops ...
India: Supreme Court committee says no to GM crops for now
A Supreme Court appointed committee had recommended an indefinite moratorium on field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) crops till the ...
GE in the UK: A change of heart
The 1990s saw a public outcry against genetically modified (GM) foods in the U.K. Activists slashed and pulled up GM ...
NBC Latino looks at the GE food debate
In the past two months alone, there have been international marches against Monsanto, which produces genetically modified seeds, in more ...
Ghana approves first GE crops for trials
Ghana's Biosafety Bill was given Presidential assent to become law, after it has been in Parliament for four years. The ...
Russia to increase production of GE despite scientific uncertainty
The Government of the Russian Federation approved a "roadmap" to increase the production of GMOs. The move will be done ...
Taiwan: Transgenic wood-eating pigs would cut waste
Tunghai University professor Cheng Teng-kuei, known as Taiwan’s cattle cloning pioneer, is working on splicing genes from cellulose-digesting microbes in ...
Kloor: Green America takes on GE
As if the meaning of “natural” wasn’t already overly twisted for ideological and commercial purposes. Check out this campaign recently launched ...
Anti-GE activists force Naked Juice to drop ‘All Natural’ label
Some companies have begun voluntarily alerting us to the presence of GMOs in their products. In most cases, companies go ...
Kenya, where GE foods are banned—for now
When Kenya banned imports of genetically modified organisms, it was one of the most comprehensive moves against GM crops outside ...
Natural products association believes market-driven approach better than laws for GE labeling
A market-driven approach that allows consumers to opt for foods made without genetically modified ingredients is preferable to mandatory labeling ...
UK: Europe risks being ‘left behind’ over GM food, Cameron says
Europe risks being "left behind" after one of the world's biggest genetically modified crop companies confirmed it is effectively pulling ...
Resistance to ag biotech: The importance of distinguishing between weak and strong attitudes
The following is an edited excerpt. In 2012, a record 17.3 million farmers grew biotech crops on 170 million hectares ...
