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.
Here we go again? Mandatory biotech food labeling initiative moves forward in Washington (state)
The following is an excerpt. Not even a year after fighting a bruising and costly battle over the “California Right ...
UK envoy champions GM crops
The following is an excerpt. Community attitudes towards cropping biotechnology are shifting in the European region, where resistance has been ...
Will Monsanto ties influence nutritionists’ stance on GMOs?
The following is an excerpt. The GMO seed giant Monsanto recently flexed its muscles in Congress, working with a senator ...
GMO labels: What’s the use?
The following is an edited excerpt. A local example is House Bill 2532 in the Oregon Legislature. The bill calls ...
Why labels on GE foods won’t cost consumers a dime
The following is an edited excerpt. The biotech industry, led by Monsanto, will soon descend on the state of Washington ...
Tesco drops resistance to GM feed for poultry
The following is an excerpt. Tesco has caved in to pressure from farmers and will allow the use of GM ...
The world needs genetically modified foods
The following is an excerpt. The Whole Foods grocery chain recently announced its intent by 2018 to require labels on ...
GMO Free Connecticut spouts myths and misinformation at library talk
The following is an excerpt. Tara Cook-Littman and Christine O’Day of GMO Free Connecticut gave a presentation titled “Genetically Modified Organisms: Are ...
GMO labeling forces look for a win after two defeats
The following is an excerpt. With the defeat of California’s Proposition 37 last November and the recent signing of House ...
Disease-resistant tomatoes fight lethal pests
The following is an excerpt. In the battle against thrips, Cornell breeder Martha Mutschler-Chu has developed a new weapon: a ...
GM maize move leaves UK ‘cold’
The following is an excerpt. The annoucement that Italy intends to ban the cultivation of GM grown maize following a ...
Protests across Ontario against genetically-modified alfalfa
The following is an excerpt. Farmers and concerned residents took to the streets in a number of Ontario municipalities, as ...
Do we need synthetic fertilizers?
The following is an excerpt. According to organic advocates Tom Philpott and Barry Estabrook, we don’t need synthetic fertilizers at all. Both argue ...
Argentina accelerates approval process for biotech crops
The following is an excerpt. It took 20 years for Argentina to approve commercial planting of 13 biotech crops, and 15 more ...
GMO labeling forces look for a win after two defeats
The following is an excerpt. With the defeat of California’s Proposition 37 last November and the recent signing of House ...
Ignore hysteria over new ‘Monsanto’ bill
The following is an excerpt. If you have read anything about the “Monsanto Protection Act,” chances are what you have ...
Africa: Subsidies and GM crops back on food policy menu
The following is an excerpt. Food has become expensive and seems set to stay that way, so growing more of ...
Food politics creates rift in panel on labeling
The following is an excerpt. The politics of genetically modified food has created a rift in a policy-setting committee of ...
GMO fears do not ‘translate to the average consumer’
The following is an excerpt. Although many farmers took up placards this week to protest the possible introduction of genetically ...
Could wheat be made more like maize?
The following is an excerpt. Wheat yields could potentially double as scientists seek to make the crop's efficiency of photosynthesis ...
Pursue practical food labels
The following is an excerpt. Is a truce in the long war over genetically modified (GM) food in the works? ...
GM apple wins award
The following is an excerpt. SUMMERLAND, B.C. — Okanagan Specialty Fruits of Summerland will receive an award from BIOTECanada for ...
Genetic modification: Time for a more nuanced debate
The following is an excerpt. What is a person with a conscience to think about the fraught and complex issue of ...
DSM and Monsanto to commercialize soybean oil rich in omega-3 fatty acids
The following is an excerpt. Monsanto has joined forces with DSM to commercialize a genetically engineered soybean oil rich in ...
Why “playing God” could help the human race
The following is an excerpt. Despite the frequently encountered argument that scientists are ‘playing God’ with nature, the pros of ...
Tanzania considers applying biotechnology in cotton farming
The following is an excerpt. The government recognises the potential of modern biotechnology in reviving the country's cotton industry, the ...
GMO rider: “Monsanto protection” or “farmer sustainability”?
The following is an excerpt. The biotech industry rejoiced along with biotech seed companies and farmers supportive of genetically modified ...
