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.
Some sanity on genetically engineered foods
The following is an edited excerpt. Will wonders never cease? The British newspaper The Guardian has reported the sobering news ...
China approves Monsanto’s drought-tolerant trait
The following is an edited excerpt. The drought tolerance trait in Monsanto’s DroughtGard® hybrids recently received final import approval from ...
Who’s polarizing the GE debate? Greenpeace
The following is an edited excerpt. I love this piece in the Guardian about GMOs, I really do. It’s so ...
Geneticists compare genomes of wild and domestic tomatoes
The following is an edited excerpt. You say tomato, I say comparative transcriptomics. Researchers in the U.S., Europe and Japan ...
UK: After environment minister’s call for GM adoption, farmers say they must see market acceptance
The following is an edited excerpt. Farmers in the UK have welcomed the call for a fresh debate on genetically ...
Be a good kid and eat your GM vegetables
The following is an excerpt. Foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMO) are called a lot of things, but “healthier” ...
Iowa farmer: GE and science will heal the earth
The following is an edited excerpt. Despite two decades of planting GMOs that hasn’t inflicted a single human illness, has ...
Ag biotech offers ‘significant economic and environmental gains’ to Ukraine
The following is an edited excerpt. A new assessment of the potential impacts of using existing commercialised crop biotechnology in ...
Choice of Monsanto betrays World Food Prize purpose
The following is an edited excerpt. In honoring the seed biotechnology industry, this year's World Food Prize -- to many, ...
Genetic modification could stop wheat rust epidemic
The following is an edited excerpt. Sr35 has been identified as a gene that enables resistance to a new race, or ...
GE seafood: Love it or hate, you gotta label it
The following is an edited excerpt. Whether genetically modified (GM) seafood ever makes its way into your favorite U.S. fish ...
UK Deputy Prime Minister: We should be cautious about GM food
The following is an edited excerpt. Nick Clegg, the deputy Prime Minister, said he had not "knowingly" fed his children ...
Uganda: University ag lecturer lobbies against country’s biotech bill
The following is an edited excerpt. For Uganda to embrace Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) is a recipe for disaster for ...
Illinois: State senate hears testimony on GE Labeling
The following is an edited excerpt. A full house of over 250 people heard the first of three Illinois Senate ...
Fear and loathing of GE at the Los Angeles Times
The following is an edited excerpt. There’s plenty of inaccurate, misleading and ungrammatical information on the Internet, of course, but ...
How to win people’s hearts and minds for GE farming
The following is an edited excerpt. In a carefully crafted speech, UK environment minister Owen Paterson announced that the government ...
Mark Bittman criticizes choice of GE pioneers for World Food Prize
The following is an edited excerpt. If Secretary of State John Kerry’s G.M.O.-boosting speech announcing the World Food Prize at ...
Alleged danger of GE not looking very real
The following is an edited excerpt. Once upon a time, a food writer triggered a storm of scientific scorn when ...
UK: Tesco accused of ‘breaking promises’ on GM feed
The following is an edited excerpt. Anti-GM group GM Freeze have accused Tesco of breaking a promise to phase out ...
The future of Iowa agriculture: Genetic engineering
The following is an edited excerpt. I grew up on a small — by today’s standards — dairy farm in ...
What have the human nutrition studies on Golden Rice shown?
The following is an edited excerpt. Human nutrition studies help us understand how well the beta carotene in Golden Rice ...
GE critics seriously exaggerate and misrepresent the level of industry funding
The following is an edited excerpt. Speaking on Radio 4’s PM about Owen Patterson’s GM speech last week, food campaigner ...
Italian minister wants ban on GE foods
The following is an edited excerpt. The Italian agriculture minister has said she wants to create a ban in Italy ...
FBI investigates GM sugar beet destruction in Oregon
The following is an edited excerpt. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to solve who destroyed fields of genetically ...
GE misconceptions, risks, and rewards, one Cornell scientist’s take
The following is an edited excerpt. GE crops have been in American fields and grocery stores for more than a ...
David Tribe: New EU GE legislation has no scientific justification for mandatory animal feeding trials
The following is an edited excerpt. This commentary focuses on the potential added value of and need for (sub)-chronic testing ...
Stop GM and you’ll watch people die
The following is an edited excerpt. In the 1950s, Norman Borlaug introduced new genes into wheat and rice that increased ...
