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.
Eco-feminist Vandana Shiva: fanatic or fantasist?
Perhaps as a sign of the change in attitudes on GM the reaction to Mark Lynas’s speech renouncing his anti-GMO ...
Poland latest European country to ban GM crops
Poland has become the eighth European country to ban the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops approved by the European ...
The problem with GM food is the patent
The Main Problem With Patented GM Food Is The Patent, Not The Fact That It's GMTechdirtBut every GM food becomes ...
GM food labeling bill pre-filed in New Mexico Senate
Food Safety NewsGenetically Modified Food Labeling Bill Pre-Filed in New Mexico SenateFood Safety NewsWirth for comment were unsuccessful. It is ...
Two in three UK shoppers demand GM product labels
Daily MailTwo in three shoppers demand GM product labels in embarrassing consumer ...Daily MailThe FSA figures show a large majority ...
Why the GMO labeling bill will fare better in Washington State
On November 6, in the wake of one of the most expensive and scurrilous smear campaigns in history, six million ...
In Latin America, a growing backlash against GM food
Are genetically modified crops “Franken-foods” or the answer to global hunger and climate change? That is the dilemma dividing Latin America, ...
Mark Lynas: An environmentalist’s conversion
It has been more than fifteen years since companies like Monsanto began intense efforts to export agricultural biotechnology from the ...
The GMO debate can finally begin
Last Thursday, Mark Lynas simply stated, in measured and scientific terms, that he had changed his mind. It is a measure of ...
Counting the cost of the anti-GMO movement
There is a long and growing list of agricultural, environmental, and health improvement that "could have been" if the anti-GMO ...
Does Mark Lynas’s “conversion” represent a turning point in the GM debate?
Anyone who believes the combustible GM discourse has turned a corner would do well to remember similar pronouncements made about ...
Eco-feminist says farmers who use GMOs are like rapists
Dr. Vandana Shiva, eco-feminist - whatever that means - philosopher and environmental activist does not like that Mark Lynas has changed ...
Leading anti-GMO activist’s confession: I was completely wrong to oppose GMOs
If you fear genetically modified food, you may have Mark Lynas to thank. By his own reckoning, British environmentalist helped ...
Golden rice trial triggers sackings, investigation
Golden rice trial triggers sackings, investigationSciDev.NetThe study looked at 'golden rice' — a GM rice strain that contains higher levels ...
Family farmers head to Washington to battle Monsanto in court
DigitalJournal.comFamily farmers head to Washington to battle Monsanto in courtDigitalJournal.com"Plaintiffs in this matter represent farmers and seed businesses who do ...
Separating wheat from chaff at the genetic level
It may be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Heck, it may be even better than sliced bread. Several weeks ...
What Democrats can learn from reformed anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas
British environmentalist Mark Lynas was an early advocate against GMOs and, as he tells it, that meant he was an ...
Why I changed my mind about GMOs
Lecture to Oxford Farming Conference, 3 January 2013 I want to start with some apologies. For the record, here and ...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife concerned about AquaBounty salmon
Maynard-based AquaBounty Technologies — with a genetically modified fish that grows twice as fast as native Atlantic salmon — won ...
How a quarter of the cow genome came from snakes
Genomes are often described as recipe books for living things. If that’s the case, many of them badly need an ...
GM food: British public ‘should be persuaded of the benefits’
The British public should be persuaded of the benefits of genetically modified food, the environment secretary will tell the UK's farming industry on ...
Oregon farmers hope to ban GM crops
Supporters of a local ban on genetically modified crops filed signatures with the Jackson County clerk on Wednesday in Medford ...
GM maize ban lifted in Russia
A temporary ban on GM maize has been lifted in Russia. The ban was put in place in September last ...
India’s GM labeling law suffers from ‘lack of planning’
On New Year's day, India joined a select band of countries where food containing genetically modified (GM) content must be ...
Label-It-Yourself activists should be prosecuted
GM labeling activists are not waiting for government-mandated labeling. Vigilantes are going through the aisles of supermarkets and applying their own ...
Banning GM foods: Is it ethical to deny a hungry child a meal because of theoretical risks?
In declaring a sweeping ban on all genetically modified products, the government unwittingly invoked the Hyderabad Declaration made during the ...
Governments must defend GM crops against the naysayers
People everywhere are increasingly vulnerable to the use of what Nobel Prize-winning chemist Irving Langmuir dubbed “pathological science” – the ...
