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.
Exposing ‘charlatans’: Why Vani Hari’s days of popularity are waning
I am a friend of Yvette d’Entremont, A.K.A. Science Babe, and I am proud of her. She’s done a great ...
Ag industry fears foreign countries hold ‘veto’ over US-approved GMOs
The barrage of farmer lawsuits against a biotech developer could give foreign buyers more influence over genetically modified crops grown ...
Who’s real shill: Food Babe or #Science14?
I hear it almost every single day. Because I talk or write about science, and promote ideas consistent with the ...
Cultural brokers—environmental groups, prominent journalists—shape public discourse on GMOs
A Zurich-based think tank asks: “Who is influencing the way we think today? Whose ideas are determining ours?” To answer that ...
GMOs could save banana industry but could consumers accept it?
The international banana industry only has itself to blame for its vulnerability to panama disease, and faces annihilation if the ...
GMO distributors can be jailed in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan can jail any person - importers or salespersons – engaged in sale of genetically modified products in the country ...
GMO acreage increases globally, especially among small farmers
Farmers are growing substantially the number of acres they plant of genetically modified crops, reveal new figures by the International ...
Big Data comes to farming, thanks to Monsanto: Sustainable, higher yields–and controversy
David Friedberg, CEO of The Climate Corporation, expected pushback when he decided to sell his San Francisco-based big data company ...
What’s more natural: Paleo diets or GMOs?
The see-food diet was the first so-called Paleo diet, not today's popular fad, premised on the false idea that there ...
Modified broccoli reduces LDL-cholesterol
A broccoli variety modified to have two to three times more of the naturally occurring compound glucoraphanin, which is linked ...
Inside look at Monsanto’s Hawaii farm nursery
Spring is here and that means pretty soon farmers across the nation will be pulling equipment out of the shed ...
Chemophobia: Testing foods for glyphosate rises with fears over health risk
U.S. consumer groups, scientists and food companies are testing substances ranging from breakfast cereal to breast milk for residues of ...
Interview with Science Babe who took down Food Babe
Earlier this month, you probably would't have heard of Yvette d'Entremont, aka Science Babe. But after posting a Gawker article ...
Thousands of illnesses linked annually to organic foods
The World Health Organization used its annual World Health Day to focus on issues of food-borne illnesses and safety risks ...
European science academy links neonics to harm of many beneficial insects, not just bees
An influential European scientific body said on Wednesday that a group of pesticides believed to contribute to mass deaths of ...
US biotech regulations need serious weeding
The “corporate culture” at USDA toward the regulation of genetically engineered plants is unscientific, self-interested and inimical to progress in ...
Genebanks house 30 bean varieties that beat the heat of global warming
Amidst fears that global warming could zap a vital source of protein that has sustained humans for centuries, bean breeders ...
American Farm Bureau reinforces opposition to mandatory GMO labeling
The scientific consensus supporting GMO food production is overwhelming. It shows no signs of flagging. So it’s more than a ...
Judge hears suit in Hawaii over claims of GMO crop dust blown on residences
There are southwest Kauai residents who can't enjoy simple things in their homes, such as just sitting on a couch ...
EU to streamline GMO import process, opening possible clearance of 19 products
The EU plans to simplify the import approval process for controversial genetically modified foods and animal feed, allowing member states ...
Germany considers GMO ban despite endorsement of GM crops by Germany’s scientists
Germany’s national academy of sciences has strongly endorsed genetically modified (GM) crops as the Bundestag – Germany’s lower house of ...
Food Babe conundrum: Responding to scare mongering while addressing legitimate fears
We live in an age where lots of people have become suspicious of many things tagged by activists–and the media–as ...
Second battle over GMOs: Will Europe regulate gene edited crops as GM products?
The U.S. plant-breeding company Cibus is proudly rolling out its first crop created with an innovative precision gene-editing technology: herbicide-tolerant ...
Svalbard Global Seed Vault guards mankind’s food supply in case of crop apocalypse
On the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen, one of the remotest places on Earth, mostly covered with ice and hundreds of ...
Activists at “alternative Nobel Prize’ declare ‘GMOs are false miracles’
Food safety is this year’s theme for World Health Day, an annual health awareness day held each April 7 and ...
County ballot measure in Oregon would limit university GMO research in crops, cancer, bioenergy
Shawn Mehlenbacher, the Oregon State University hazelnut breeder who developed varieties resistant to deadly Eastern Filbert Blight, says a Benton ...
Science Babe vs. Food Babe: Debunking Vani Hari’s overuse of word ‘toxin’
Vani Hari, AKA the Food Babe, has amassed a loyal following in her Food Babe Army. The recent subject of ...
