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.
Hawaii GMO-label bill faulty, state says
The following is an edited excerpt. The attorney general is cautioning state senators that a House bill requiring genetically modified ...
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 ...
Arrival of GM seeds in consumer catalogs heightens controversy
The following is an edited excerpt. Michael Kilpatrick thought he had found a neat new plant to enhance the gardens ...
China: Organic food has huge investment potential
The following is an edited excerpt. Affluent Chinese, alarmed by a slew of food safety problems in recent years, are ...
Philippines: Resistance to Golden Rice
The following is an excerpt. The Philippine Rice Institute (Philrice) has finished the field testing of golden rice in Camarines ...
Ugandans need law that bans GMOs, not promotes them
The following is an excerpt. I was compelled to write this article after learning that the government passed the National ...
GMO labeling is clever marketing
The following is an excerpt. I find it amusing that this whole GMO labeling campaign has been framed as some ...
Ireland: GM potato resists blight, not mistrust
The following is an edited excerpt. Ewen Mullins is a plant scientist whose work on a genetically modified potato inherently ...
GM labeling and Jewish law
The following is an excerpt. Even though over 50% of Americans believe GMOs to be potentially unsafe and a striking ...
Anti-GM activism: Why the bastards never quit
The following is an edited excerpt. Over three trillion servings of foods with GE ingredients have been consumed, and in ...
Initiative 522: A test of what you believe about genetically modified foods
The following is an edited excerpt. [The GMO] label is a warning. It is saying, in effect, “Before you buy ...
Cuddle up to ‘Frankenfish?’ Author makes case for GM animals
The following is an edited excerpt. A lot of people get squeamish at the thought of eating what some call ...
Why label genetically engineered food?
The following is an edited excerpt. Any private company has the right to require its suppliers to meet labeling standards ...
A moral weight for the agricultural tool of biotechnology
The following is an edited excerpt. As Catholic cardinals selected Pope Francis in Rome on Wednesday, we watched an ancient ...
GM crops defended
The following is an edited excerpt. Professor Wayne Parrott says those who oppose crop-biotechnology based on anti-science views should spend ...
Five ways the FDA has failed consumers on genetically engineered foods
The following is an edited excerpt. 1. No health safety testing Genetically engineered (GE) foods have never been safety tested ...
Seed giants’ initiatives to preserve monopoly on global food
The following is an edited excerpt. A report released yesterday by the non-profit ETC Group claims that six companies are ...
GM milk cures diarrhea, could save millions of kids annually
The following is an edited excerpt. Transgenic goats' milk modified to produce higher levels of the human antimicrobial protein lysozyme ...
Demolishing the myth that Monsanto drove Indian farmers to suicide
The following is an edited excerpt. Last Friday, Vandana Shiva, Indian feminist, activist, and thinker and "author of many books" said: ...
Enviropig improved: scientists develop new line of transgenic pigs
The following is an excerpt. CANADA - A research team at the University of Guelph has developed a new line ...
Hawaii: Down to Earth stores joins Whole Foods in GM labeling
The following is an excerpt. Down to Earth Organic & Natural said its five stores in Hawaii will begin requiring ...
Whole Foods didn’t have a choice in GM labeling
The following is an excerpt. "People have the right to know what is in their food," Whole Foods Market founder ...
Indian Agriculture Minister favors strict GM field safety trials
The following is an excerpt. NEW DELHI: Agriculture Minister SharadPawar today said that agriculture scientists should be allowed to conduct field trials ...
The double standard for Golden Rice
The following is an edited excerpt. When I saw that NPR was doing a story on Golden Rice I was ...
Whole Foods’ business case for GMO labeling
The following is an edited excerpt. Whole Foods pleased many of its shoppers, and most of its critics, when it ...
