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.
Monsanto to build high tech GMO greenhouse in Arizona
Multinational biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. is bringing a small chunk of its highly influential — and controversial — seed operation ...
Hampton Creek’s vegan mayonnaise losing money, partly due to cost of non-GMO ingredients
Hampton Creek, [maker] of mayonnaise, ranch dressing and other food products, has come under scrutiny by regulators for its business practices ...
U.S. Right to Know suing UC Davis for public records on GMOs
Consumer group U.S. Right to Know filed a lawsuit [Aug. 17] to compel the University of California, Davis to comply with requests ...
European Food Safety Authority says new GMO soybean ‘as safe as’ non-GMO variety
The Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority (GMO Panel) previously assessed the two single events combined ...
GMO corn with insect resistance, herbicide tolerance shows increased use, higher yields
Genetically engineered (GE) seeds are widely used in U.S. field crop production. . . . Seeds that have both herbicide-tolerant and ...
India’s director of agricultural research calls for more public-private GMO partnerships
Trilochan Mohapatra [a molecular geneticist] took over as . . . director general, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in February. ...
Government interference between GMO providers, licensees weakens Indian agriculture
The agri-biotech industry takes risks by putting in huge money, effort and valuable human resource in conducting research over years ...
New biofortified GMO rice could alleviate iron, zinc deficiencies
Rice is the staple food for billions of people throughout the developing world. But beyond easing hunger pains and providing ...
Monsanto, researchers will collaborate on Nigeria’s first GMO cotton variety
. . . [Nigeria could see] the production of the first set of Genetically Modified cotton also known as Bt cotton ...
Nutritionist Julie Miller Jones: ‘We need to communicate risks of NOT using GMOs’
Leading nutritionist Julie Miller Jones aims to bust myths about biotechnology by educating the general population on the benefits she believes genetically engineered (GE) ...
GMO labeling could give New Zealand’s GMO-free products advantage in U.S. markets
Changes in food-labelling legislation in the United States appear to have positive implications for New Zealand agriculture. All food labelling ...
Bayer may be prepared to mount hostile takeover of Monsanto
The German chemical giant Bayer may be prepared to go hostile in its bid for U.S. seed company Monsanto. In ...
Green presidential candidate Stein calls for moratorium on GMOs
[Green party Presidential candidate Dr. Jill] Stein has called for a moratorium on GMOs and pesticides in the United States. ...
Internal conflict in French government affecting EU policy on glyphosate, other agrochemicals
A duel in the . . . French government is shaking up Europe’s food and farming sector, turning the Continent’s political ...
Is campaign against glyphosate using misinformation to spread message?
. . . [W]hen did it become totally acceptable for groups who oppose anything . . . to routinely spread spurious information ...
Are GMOs an ‘environmental miracle’?
[Editor's note: This excerpt was translated from the French by Google Translate and lightly edited for clarity] Although all serious scientific studies conclude ...
Illegal spraying of new GMO soybean creates bad press for farmers, agricultural biotech
University of Arkansas weed scientists Jason Norsworthy and Tom Barber find a bit of shade to shelter in and talk ...
Long-term study suggests small link between neonicotinoids, wild bee declines
Wild bees that forage from oilseed rape crops treated with. . . neonicotinoids are more likely to undergo long-term population ...
Monsanto’s new GMO soybeans are making a hot mess for farmers
. . . The leaves are gone from the . . . peach trees on Bill Bader’s orchard . . ., and soy ...
India’s environment minister claims ‘natural farming always better’ than GMOs
Union Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave has stuck a note of caution over using genetically modified crops, saying one particular scientific ...
Processed food, GMO ingredients safer than what your grandmother ate
Labels on food came about in the United States from the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938. . . ...
Video: Dr. Mahaletchumy Arujanan of Malaysia dispels GMO myths
Dr. Mahaletchumy Arujanan discusses the misconceptions surrounding GMOs, the myths and fear. with stringent constrictions, and testing and labelling requirements ...
By engaging with public, farmers can combat myths about GMOs, conventional farming
To be frank, production agriculture does not do a good job of communicating to consumers. . . . This lack ...
Are Greenpeace, anti-GMO activists to blame for golden rice’s delay?
What is missing in the [the recent Nobel laureates' letter accusing Greenpeace of a "crime against humanity" for opposing genetically modified (GMO) golden rice] ...
Neonicotinoids pose little risk to bees in ‘real world settings’ study says
While neonicotinoid pesticides can harm honey bees, a new study by Washington State University researchers shows that the substances pose ...
GMO vs. non-GMO: How farmers decide which crops to grow
. . . . Choosing different varieties of corn or soybeans, some with and some without GM traits is one of ...
Kenya to begin testing GMO maize, commercialization expected by 2018
The performance-testing of GM maize will start in October in Kitale. This comes after the National Biosafety Authority early this year ...
