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.
Local food to eclipse organic, as consumers begin to doubt definition
New consumers continue to enter the organic category for the first time, but the health halo cast by the US ...
Chinese publish genome of Tibetan barley
Scientists from a genomics organisation in south China's Shenzhen City on January 13, 2015 published the first genetic map of ...
On GMO labeling: Are consumers getting label fatigue?
Shoppers are shelling out a lot of money for products they believe are good because of clever marketing, labeling, and ...
Consumers will pay more for GMOs with health benefits
Over the last years, various GM crops with health benefits have been developed in which genes, mostly originating from other ...
Poll: 40% of Americans concerned about GMO in foods; majority favors labeling
A majority of Americans support labeling of genetically modified foods, whether they care about eating them or not. But fewer ...
GM banana trial delayed in Iowa due to shipping issues
A controversial plan to have Iowa State University students eat genetically modified bananas has been delayed, apparently because of issues ...
Europe’s GMO compromise: Is the glass half full or half empty?
Is the glass half full or half empty? Today the European Parliament passed proposals to allow EU member states to ...
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill bows to anti-GMO protestors, revises 6th grade textbook
A sixth-grade science textbook has a caused a dustup over what anti-GMO parents content is a one-sided presentation of GMOs ...
Reflections on why Australian organic farmer’s GMO contamination court case flopped
As Schopenhauer once said, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it ...
Idaho farmers divided on GMO labeling
Some Idaho farmers would like the Legislature to pass a bill to forestall a statewide initiative that would require labeling ...
Monsanto perfecting GMO wheat: Are the public and farmers ready?
The facility has dozens of rooms just like it. But inside this particular 10-foot-by-20-foot growth chamber at Monsanto’s global research ...
How dubious research critical of GMOs and glyphosate gets published
I’ve added the journal Interdisciplinary Toxicology (interTOX) to my list. The journal is associated with the Slovak Toxicology Society (SETOX) ...
Hawaii’s GMO lesson: Public interest research future of GE technology
If you read the social media, you’d believe that genetic modification of crops is being done almost solely by the ...
Seed companies feed home gardeners’ concerns about GMO seeds
A couple of seed catalogs came during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and I put them aside ...
GMO foods most likely to be served next
Currently, the list of genetically modified organisms that could end up at your dinner table (assuming you live in the ...
USDA considers categorizing GM sorghum as noxious weed
Word filtered from U.S. Department of Agriculture sources is that a genetically modified sorghum developed for use in cellulosic ethanol ...
Finding genetic traits in crops could help plants survive in warmer, drier world
Sometimes it pays to have wild and quirky relatives. That's certainly the case for staple crops that help feed the ...
Mining genetic wealth of agricultural gene banks
Agricultural gene banks hope soon to cease serving primarily as warehouses for plant seeds and start capitalizing on the often ...
New British minister backs GM crops as more eco-friendly
Genetically modified food should be grown in Britain because it is more ‘eco-friendly’, the Environment Secretary claimed yesterday. Publicly backing ...
New EU GMO approval system could open door to Britain, other countries approving more GE crops
You could call it a victory for common sense. The European Parliament is expected to confirm an astonishing departure from ...
Herbicide-tolerant crops still need diverse weed management
Crops that have been genetically modified (GM) to be tolerant to herbicides have been widely grown in the U.S. since ...
UK advisor holds up GMO crops as more environmentally friendly than organic
Organic farming could be worse for the climate than conventional farming methods, one of the government’s scientific advisers has said, ...
Genetic descriptors published for Africa’s baobab—the ‘tree of life’
A new publication, 'Descriptors for Baobab,' opens the way for accelerated and better-standardized research into this iconic tree. This highly ...
Salt tolerant gene indentified in soybeans
A collaborative research project between Australian and Chinese scientists has shown how soybean can be bred to better tolerate soil ...
GM crops safer for farmers and consumers because less chemicals used
Don Lee, genetics professor at University of Nebraska, spoke to Susan Winsor, the managing editor of Corn and Soybean Digest, ...
Considering the three types of reasons people oppose GMO foods
When it comes to arguing about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) there is a big obstacle: the name GMOs describes things ...
Vandana Shiva teaches how not to communicate science
We can learn a lot about people from not just what they say, but how they choose to say it. ...
