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.
Call it genetically engineered Salmon, not “Frankenfish”
The following is an edited excerpt. When you Google “genetically engineered salmon,” the second link that appears is titled “Stop ...
Transgenics: A new breed of crops
The following is an edited excerpt. A whole new generation of GM crops is now making their way from laboratory ...
Glowing plants and DIY bio
The following is an edited excerpt. In the last week, over 3,000 people on Kickstarter backed the now fully-funded "Glowing ...
Ag biotech’s new secret weapon: Moms
The following is an edited excerpt. Betsie Estes is a mother of two young kids who lives in suburban Chicago ...
California: Sen. Boxer seeks nationwide labeling of genetically modified foods
The following is an edited excerpt. Following the defeat of Proposition 37 last November, Sen. Barbara Boxer is proposing federal ...
Tanzania: Biotechnology to increase cotton production
The following is an excerpt. Recently, the Ministry of State in the Vice-President's Office (Environment) convened a meeting for stakeholders ...
A forward-looking Kenya can lead the movement for global food sufficiency
The following is an excerpt. A newly-elected government provides a country with a rare opportunity for a fresh start, and ...
Will genetically engineered food feed a hungry world?
The following is an excerpt. Dick Tracy was right. So was Captain James T. Kirk and Maxwell Smart. Through their ...
5 points in favor of intellectual property for agricultural biotechnology
The following is an excerpt. CropLife International has identified the top five facts everyone should know about the importance of ...
Biotech crops do help poor farmers
The following is an excerpt. According to a just-released economic analysis by U.K.-based PG Economics of the impacts of genetic ...
London School of Economics enters biotech crop discussion
The following is an excerpt. The prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and ...
New study finds genetically modified crops won’t feed world; Biodiversity is key
The following is an excerpt. A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development concludes that genetically modified (GM) ...
Time to call out the anti-GMO conspiracy theory
The following is an excerpt. I think the controversy over GMOs represents one of the greatest science communications failures of ...
Is it OK to eat cloned fruit?
The following is an excerpt. Cloned fruit is widely sold in grocery stores. Some of it is even cloned mutant ...
Scientists try to reverse-engineer the tomato
The following is an edited excerpt. The modern supermarket tomato became damaged goods as part of the attempt to keep ...
Use genetically modified crops on refuges?
The following is an excerpt. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold five public meetings around the South in ...
Supermarkets must stop scaremongering, say scientists
The following is an excerpt. Supermarkets are pandering to misplaced consumer fears about the health risks of widely used food ingredients ...
Bizarre yet beneficial uses of modern biotech
The following is an excerpt. After learning about human genetic engineering, many readers might want to find out about some examples ...
Keith Kloor stumbles into nest of questionable studies and reporting on GMOs
The following is an excerpt. This morning, the Discover blogger Keith Kloor filed a noisy objection to a Reuters story on a questionable paper alleging harmful effects from Roundup, the trade ...
Condemning Monsanto with bad science is dumb
The following is an excerpt. Did you see the latest indictment of Monsanto making the rounds? It's a "peer-reviewed" paper ...
Genetic engineering policy needs modification
The following is an excerpt. Writing in the Cell Press journal Trends in Plant Science, scientists from Spain and the United ...
Why GMO supporters should embrace labels
The following is an excerpt. Keith Kloor has graciously given me the opportunity to guest post here again. So let ...
Food labeling 101: GMO, organic, and other common grocery labels decoded
The following is an excerpt. Navigating the food labels at the grocery store these days can feel like reading through ...
Give consumers a choice and label genetically modified foods
The following is an excerpt. At first we were skeptical about requiring the labeling of genetically modified food in Maine, ...
Uruguay scientists genetically modify sheeps to glow in the dark
The following is an excerpt. Scientists in Uruguay modified the genes of sheep using the fluorescent protein from an Aequarea ...
U.S. GMO food labeling drive has biotech industry biting back
The following is an excerpt. New efforts to force labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops, including a bill ...
Scientists design ‘health and safety’ cow with no horns
The following is an excerpt. Researchers are using gene-editing techniques to insert a DNA patch into the genome of Holsteins, ...
