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.
Zimbabwe: Call to raise awareness of biotech issues
The following is an edited excerpt. Local scientists and scientific institutions must take practical steps to improve their communication skills ...
FDA assures safety of GM food products in market in Phillipines
The following is an edited excerpt. FDA Director General Kenneth Hartigan Go said those GM foods have passed food safety ...
Professor Parrott gives GE-fed pig study an F
The following is an edited excerpt. Paper: GE-fed pigs have irritated stomachs and thicker uteruses Grade: F Why does this ...
Canada: Stomach trouble disputed in GE hog feed study
The following is an edited excerpt. The colour of a slaughtered hog’s stomach lining shouldn’t be taken as a sign ...
Speedy soybean approvals revive fears in China about GE food
The following is an edited excerpt. The Ministry of Agriculture's recent approval of imports of three new kinds of genetically ...
A Filipino mother and farmer wants to place GE eggplant on her table
The following is an edited excerpt. Do judges know better than mothers what their children should eat? In the Philippines, apparently ...
McDonald’s to decide on GE fries
The following is an edited excerpt. McDonald's has been mixing up its menu recently in an attempt to combat falling ...
GE sugar beets destroyed in ‘sabotage’ at Oregon plots
The following is an edited excerpt. Genetically modified sugar beets from two fields in Southern Oregon’s Jackson County were destroyed ...
GE Fashion: Scientists engineer silkworms to produce fluorescent fabrics
The following is an edited excerpt. Researchers have genetically engineered silkworms to produce colored fluorescent silks, which are starting to ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
Organic Consumer Association issues threat to Congressional candidates on GE labeling
The following is an edited excerpt. Just when you thought the crazies over at the Organic Consumer’s Association (OCA) couldn’t ...
UK environmental secretary: We must lead the world in GE crops
The following is an edited excerpt. UK Environmental Secretary, Owen Paterson, delivered a speech about genetically engineered crops at the ...
Chipotle starts putting Scarlett letter on GE foods on its website menu
The following is an edited excerpt. Chipotle Mexican Grill recently became the first fast-food chain to label the ingredients it ...
GE sugar beets destroyed in southern Oregon; FBI investigating
The following is an edited excerpt. Federal investigators are asking the public to help solve middle-of-the-night crimes that left ruined ...
The search for Monsanto’s rogue GM wheat
The following is an edited excerpt. On May 29 the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that a ...
Pig feeding study shows how not to use statistics
The following is an edited excerpt. In the latest issue of Journal of Organic Production Systems, a long-term toxicology study ...
Rogue GE wheat is growing in 127 countries! Should consumers be concerned?
The following is an edited excerpt. After the “crisis” of glyphosate tolerant wheat being found in an Oregon field, I ...
World Food Prize goes for work on biotech crops
The following is an edited excerpt. As governments, food aid organizations and other groups are thinking big in their efforts ...
EU at a GE crossroads
The following is an edited excerpt. The restrictive stance of the European Union on genetically modified organisms (GMO) has frustrated ...
India: Field trials cleared for GM rice, wheat, maize, and other crops
The following is an edited excerpt. It's the future of food. The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, under the environment ministry, ...
Wheat industry will survive Oregon’s GE strain
The following is an edited excerpt. After news broke that a genetically engineered strain of wheat had been found in ...
Could genetic engineering make renewable fuel cheaper?
The following is an edited excerpt. Wood and straw are among the waste products our society produces in the greatest ...
When the anti-GE science sucks, you can have it both ways
The following is an edited excerpt. Dear Howard Vleiger, which one is correct? You have stood by your (probably bogus) ...
Luddites are losing the battle over GM crops
The following is an edited excerpt. Most speech writers would have advised a more cautious line of attack. Most spin ...
CNN features outrageous anti-GE views
The following is an edited excerpt. The latest frightful example of GE fear-mongering aired Monday on CNN. It was a ...
