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.
University of Michigan professor disputes Nobel Laureates on why Golden Rice not yet commercialized
The Nobel Laureates argue that the reason this innovation has not started saving lives yet is Greenpeace’s criminal opposition. This ...
GMO law forces small food companies to make tough decisions about labels, ingredients
A new law that requires food makers to label the packaging of any products that contain genetically modified ingredients has ...
Video: Implications of Brexit on glyphosate regulation in U.K.
Tom Heap reports on the use of Glyphosate, a herbicide used for crops, where an ever-growing call to ban it, ...
FDA struggles to define what ‘natural,’ ‘healthy’ mean in food labeling
The FDA. . . is changing its definition of what "healthy" actually means—and are still trying to figure out a definition ...
Video: Has anti-GMO movement become anti-science?
The anti-GMO movement is very popular. The 'mob' mentality has forced the sentiment into borderline threatening, especially where the GMO ...
Is precautionary principle in pesticide, GMO regulation making EU import dependent?
The EU’s use of the precautionary principle on agricultural technologies is a bad, broken compass. How far lost are we? ...
Editorial: Allowing imports of GMOs, but banning cultivation in Bolivia is ‘nonsense’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: This excerpt ...
Which is riskier–Pesticides or chemical free, disease free CRISPR gene-edited crops?
Ultimately, whether we use CRISPR in agriculture comes down to a handful of questions: Which is better, controlling plant diseases ...
Boycotting companies that backed GMO labeling compromise is hypocritical
Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association lobbying group, has released a letter citing Gandhi. In it he described Gandhi leading ...
Federal GMO labeling may not go into effect for 3 years
Here are three other things to expect from the federal GMO labeling program. 1. Compliance is up to three years ...
Vermont to push for ‘on package’ GMO labeling in regulatory, not legal, arena
[On Aug. 3] Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell formally announced that the state will no longer enforce its month-old GMO ...
US wheat exporters expect little disruption in sales after GMO wheat found in WA state
The U.S. Wheat Associates is hopeful there will be no business lost and only minor trade delays after a Washington ...
Would greenhouse gas emissions increase dramaticaly if GMOs banned?
What would the impact be of a global ban on GMO foods? That’s exactly the question Wally Tyner, a professor ...
Growing expatriate population driving demand for non-GMO products in China
Technavio analysts forecast the non-genetically modified organism (GMO) food market in China to grow at a CAGR of 20.49% during the forecast period, ...
Vermont won’t enforce state GMO labeling law while federal labeling rules in works
The Vermont Attorney General's office says it won't be enforcing the state's first-in-the-nation law that required the labeling of some ...
Can food makers label GMO products with pride?
. . . . [T]he maker of Soylent, doubled down on its pro–GMO stance with the blog post “Proudly Made With ...
Nigerian farmers accuse anti-GMO activists of misinforming public
The Nigerian farmers under the aegis of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) have chided the anti-biotechnology campaigners in the ...
Monsanto explains why new GMO soybeans were released before dicamba formulation approved
When serious drift issues began popping up around the Mid-South in late June, dicamba immediately became the prime suspect. The ...
Japan, S. Korea block import of some U.S. wheat after GMO wheat found in WA state
Japan and South Korea have both taken steps to block certain imports of U.S. wheat after unapproved genetically-modified (GMO) plants ...
Organic Consumers Association organizes boycott of brands that use QR code GMO labels
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is asking consumers to boycott brands that refuse to expressly label products made with genetically ...
Glyphosate controversy never about science but rather ‘activist’s war on Big Ag’
. . . [W]hat exactly makes glyphosate such a controversial issue? One must look no further than the . ...
FactCheck: Will processed foods made from GMOs be labeled under new law?
A controversial GMO labeling bill. . . has raised interesting scientific and regulatory questions: Do foods processed from [GMOs], like refined sugar and soybean oil, ...
German farmers plant ‘chemical-free’ demonstration plots to educate public about glyphosate
Glyphosate. . . is heavily used by farmers to clear fields of weeds . . . In 2015, a report found the ...
Sugar co-op exploring return to conventional sugar beets as food manufacturers shun GMOs
. . . . [S]ome consumers remain wary of GMOs, including when it comes to sugar. Nearly two-thirds of domestic ...
Developing world eclipsing Europe as biotech incubator, crops with consumer-focused traits poised for market
Acrylamide is . . . . proven to increase the risk of cancer. . . . in 2002 when Swedish scientists found ...
10 years after Michael Pollan’s ‘Omnivore’s Dilemma’ unleashed ‘anti-GMO paranoia,’ science innovation continues
Penguin Books is releasing a special tenth-anniversary edition of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, with a new foreword by ...
How USDA defines GMOs will determine if mandatory labeling is a success
The problem with the debate is that it is a very scientific and complex issue that most laymen just don’t understand. . ...
