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.
Ukraine to grow GM feed crops
The following is an excerpt. Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy is to start a pilot project producing forage crops using ...
Maple Leaf Foods CEO: ‘A global food strategy must meet the needs of the many, not just the affluent few’
The following is an excerpt. Blanket opposition to genetically modified crops is “a morally unacceptable position to take on the basis ...
GM Label fatigue
The following is an excerpt. Sen. Barbara Boxer says she is co-sponsoring the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act in part ...
GMO pigs study – more junk science
The following is an excerpt. When I saw on Twitter that a ‘major new peer-reviewed study’ was about to reveal ...
Genetically modified wheat: No answers yet, federal investigators say
The following is an excerpt. If federal agriculture investigators are getting close to figuring out how genetically-modified wheat popped up ...
Target hops on the GMO-free bandwagon with “Simply Balanced”
The following is an excerpt. Earlier this month when I did my natural and organic coupon roundup, I included a ...
Trial lawyers seize GMO (genetically modified opportunity)
The following is an excerpt. Last week, a farmer in Oregon claimed that he found genetically modified wheat in his field that ...
Uganda: Academics, activists clash over GMO bill
The following is an excerpt. After years of debate and preparation, Canadian-based Ugandan columnist Opiyo Oloya has asked Parliament to ...
Do liberals oppose genetically modified organisms more than conservatives?
The following is an excerpt. There has been recent talk about GMOs and political orientation recently. Keith Kloor has pointers to the ...
Ireland: blight-resistant GM potato study to begin second phase
The following is an excerpt. Teagasc hopes to begin planting out more than 5,000 potato plants in the next two weeks, ...
It’s past time for world to embrace biotechnology
The following is an edited excerpt. Convincing Americans about the advantages of biotechnology never has been the main issue. The ...
The calm of the genetically modified storm?
The following is an excerpt. As the world approaches a population of nine billion by 2050, GM crops can play ...
Wheat trading partners react to GM wheat announcement
The following is an excerpt. On May 29, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Plant and Health Inspection Service announced preliminary ...
Argentina says China approves more GM soy, corn for import
The following is an edited excerpt. Argentina's agriculture minister said on Saturday that China has approved three new strains of ...
Tests so far show commercial wheat seed GM-free, sabotage a real possibility
The following is an excerpt. Monsanto said Wednesday that broad testing of commercial wheat seeds in Oregon and Washington state ...
Massachusetts public hearing set on three GMO labeling bills
The following is an excerpt. A hearing has been scheduled to allow the public to offer testimony on three bills ...
Italian researchers explore how GE could improve the taste of wine
The following is an edited excerpt. A gene expression study of grapevine berries grown in different Italian vineyards has highlighted ...
Kickstarter-funded glowing plant sparks debate
The following is an edited excerpt. Among the many projects attracting crowd-sourced funding on the Kickstarter website this week are ...
Recommended reading on GE foods for skeptics
The following is an edited excerpt. Late June in 2009, I went to a talk at the Long Now Foundation ...
Will genetically engineered animals bring home the bacon?
The following is an edited excerpt. The critics of biotechnology who predicted the eventual emergence of a fearsome Dr. Frankenstein's ...
GE cotton improves diet quality for small-scale farmers in India
The following is an edited excerpt. Insect-resistant genetically modified (GM) cotton has significantly improved calorie consumption and dietary quality among ...
GE wheat: Pulitzer Prize winner gets things wrong on the Colbert Report
The following is an edited excerpt. Near the beginning of an interview about GE wheat, Colbert asks (humorously) how the ...
Connecticut will label GE foods if you do too
The following is an edited excerpt. The final version of the Connecticut bill includes quite a crucial catch: The labeling ...
UK: Kraft’s GE wheat label is a mistake
The following is an edited excerpt. The case of the labels warning of genetically modified wheat found on Kraft Mac ...
Biotech should be central to food security
The following is an edited excerpt. Scientists worldwide believe that genetic engineering should play a central role in meeting the ...
Monsanto says rogue wheat in Oregon may be sabotage
The following is an edited excerpt. Monsanto said experimental wheat engineered to survive Roundup weedkiller may have gotten into an ...
Keith Kloor makes a beat out of policing frightful coverage of GE foods
The following is an edited excerpt. The media have stoked irrational distrust of science in many fields over the years, ...
