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.
Genetic analysis saves major apple-producing region of Washington State
The following is an edited excerpt. In August 2011, researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were presented with a ...
Hawaii senate committees kill GMO labeling bill
The following is an edited excerpt. Three committees of the Hawaii Senate Thursday heard the House proposal to require labels ...
Why rich Americans should drop their war on GM foods
The following is an edited excerpt. Upper crust grocery stores like Whole Foods are taking a moral stand against genetically ...
AquaBounty CEO: ‘The atmosphere is getting very poisonous’
The following is an edited excerpt. AquaBounty Technologies says it remains confident that there will still be a market for ...
Tanzania: President wants GMOs taken aboard
The following is an excerpt President Jakaya Kikwete has called for change of negative mindset on the adoption of Genetically ...
Scientists sidestep genetic engineering in effort to develop hypoallergenic apples
The following is an edited excerpt. While apples rarely cause the same intense allergic reaction as more common allergens like ...
Genetically modified choice: Retailers fill labeling void
The following is an excerpt. The New York Times reports today that Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Aldi supermarket chains have decided ...
Lawmakers should slow down on GMO labeling, a drive based on fear
The following is an excerpt. It's hard not to sympathize with Oregon lawmakers caught up in the GMO scare. Genetically ...
Grocery chains won’t sell genetically modified fish
The following is an excerpt. Call them “frankenfish,” but don’t look for genetically engineered salmon at Trader Joe’s or Whole ...
Agriculture giants use emergency budget bill to sneak in big gifts for themselves
The following is an excerpt. On Wednesday, the Senate passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through September ...
When newspapers con the public
The following is an edited excerpt. Now let’s turn to the Guardian, and this video on genetically modified crops it recently posted on ...
Scientists manufacture abnormally large ‘super cows’
The following is an edited excerpt. Did you know that some varieties of beef on the market today come from ...
Atomic gardening: Breeding plants with gamma radiation
The following is an edited excerpt. Did you know that the peppermint flavor in your chewing gum and toothpaste, and ...
10 reasons why we don’t need GM foods
The following is an edited excerpt. Genetically modified (GM) foods are often promoted as a way to feed the world ...
Scientists say a duck has fathered a chicken
The following is an edited excerpt. A duck has successfully fathered a chicken at the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory in Dubai. Researchers ...
Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s vow not to sell GMO fish
The following is an edited excerpt. Whole Foods Market Inc, Trader Joe's and other food retailers representing more than 2,000 ...
Modified tomatoes mimic actions of good cholesterol
The following is an edited excerpt. UCLA researchers have genetically engineered tomatoes to produce a peptide that mimics the actions ...
Letters: Knowing what’s in the food we eat
Two letters to the editor about the debate over GM-labeling are excerpted below. On the pro-labeling side: Andrew Kimbrell, Executive DirectorCenter for ...
Organic always good, GMO always bad?
The following is an excerpt. There has been a lot of controversy about how organic foods are so much better ...
A month without Monsanto?
The following is an edited excerpt. April Dávila, a writer for Yes! magazine, tired to see if she could go one month “without consuming any ...
The whole truth about Whole Foods
The following is an excerpt. Whole Foods Market (WFM) is being praised in the media for announcing that it will ...
Ghana: Farmers receive education on modern biotechnology
Farmers noted that over the years several interventions of modern technology in increasing production were brought to their doorsteps yet ...
Organic farmers depend on decidedly inorganic crops
The following is an excerpt. Fertilizer that comes from cows or other animals does not really originate with them. Manure from cows ...
Do you know what your child is eating?
The following is an excerpt. It is extraordinarily hard to avoid GMOs inside of the U.S. since companies aren't required ...
Why Whole Foods decided to label genetically modified foods
The following is an edited excerpt. This month, Whole Foods became the first retailer in the country to announce that ...
This protein could change biotech forever
The following is an edited excerpt. A tiny molecular machine used by bacteria to kill attacking viruses could change the ...
GMO labeling laws on deck in the Midwest
The following is an edited excerpt. Just south of Hermann, Mo., Swiss Meat and Sausage Co. processes 2 million pounds of meat ...
