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.
Whole Foods sued for allegedly mislabeling GMO almonds as “non GMO”
A class action lawsuit that was filed last week in California accuses Whole Foods Market of selling Blue Diamond almond milk products ...
Keith Kloor’s Discover: Will Bill Nye agree to debate Kevin Folta on GMOs?
At Discover blogger Keith Kloor's invitation, University of Florida plant geneticist Kevin Folta wrote an open letter to Bill Nye ...
David Ropeik views Nassim Taleb’s odd views on GMOs through a precautionary lens
David Ropeik, an internationally respected expert on risk, has been going head-to-head with 'black swan' proponent Nassim Taleb over Taleb's ...
Anti-GMO NGO–NAGS–announces $25 million “independent” study
A Russian group working with scientists is set to launch what they call the world’s largest and most comprehensive long-term ...
India blocks ‘subversive’ Greenpeace activists from entering country
NGO Greenpeace International, which is under the scanner of intelligence agencies, today alleged activists associated with it are being denied ...
Will Maui and Molokai’s GMO ban hold up in court?
Voters in Maui County approved an initiative that will put a moratorium on the planting of all genetically engineered seeds ...
Organic alert: Whole Foods almonds contain potentially ‘fatal’ natural chemical
Whole Foods is recalling a line of Organic Raw Almonds, due to elevated levels of a natural chemical, hydrogen cyanide, ...
Largest GMO study in history confirms safety, cost benefits of GMOs
The largest GMO study in history, published last week in PLOS ONE, confirms that genetically modified crops have large, widespread benefits. The review ...
Singer Neil Young urges fans to boycott non-organic cotton over GMO fears
Neil Young, a popular classic rock artist and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Fame (he was in inducted ...
Marks & Spencer joins Tesco in selling more GMO foods
Marks & Spencer has come under fire for abandoning its policy of selling only GM-free food. The store is selling ...
GLP’s Jon Entine talks to Ray Bowman on fallout from Oregon, Colorado GMO label votes
What's next in the battle over GMO labeling? Ray Bowman talks with GLP's Jon Entine on his Food and Farm ...
Anti-GMO activist scientist publishes book questioning GMO safety, sustainability
Are genetically engineered foods safe? Truth is, we probably don't know. "The scientific debate is not resolved, even though many ...
Eager Bengal farmers smuggling unapproved GMO Bt eggplant seeds from Bengladesh
The West Bengal government claimed it has received information regarding “infiltration” of commercial seeds of Bt-Brinjal, a genetically modified (GM) ...
Wal-Mart moves to cash in on organic suspicion of GMOs, conventional foods
Sales of organic food are booming again. The growth in sales of organic products in the U.S., food and nonfood, ...
Marks & Spencer joins Tesco in selling more GMO foods
Marks & Spencer has come under fire for abandoning its policy of selling only GM-free food. The store is selling ...
Food Safety News proposes GMO ‘Right to Know’ label that actually helps consumers
Dan Flynn, the editor of Food Safety News floats a radical idea that could transform the GMO: The right to know ...
GMO labeling laws keep failing. Here’s why we can expect more
After efforts to label genetically engineered foods failed in Oregon and Colorado, I asked Stuart Elway, president of the Seattle-based polling ...
Bill Nye out of the closet: ‘We should stop genetically modifying crops’
Bill Nye recently did a Q&A with reddit and made some claims about GMOs as part of his promotion of his new ...
Biology Fortified: Independent biotech site under attack from mystery anti-GMO activists
Open letter from Biology Fortified (Biofortified.org): We have an unfortunate announcement to make. For about one month, Biology Fortified has ...
Save blight stricken American Chestnut? Crowd funding launches for GMO rescue
Today we are starting something new to get the public engaged in biotechnology solutions to environmental problems through the American ...
Peter Singer on GMOs and the dangers of the European precautionary obsession
Peter Singer is the world’s most prominent and controversial moral philosopher. He talked with Lars Mensel and Max Tholl about ...
If activists really want to avoid GMOs, everyday life would shut down
Since 89% of all corn produced in the United States is genetically engineered, if activists were truly committed to their cause, maybe ...
GMO farmers guilty until proven innocent: Monsanto to challenge Maui crop ban
A ban on the growing of GMO crops by Maui County voters by a scant 1077 votes—less than .5 percent of the total—will ...
Pamela Ronald: Why GMOs are crucial in an era of global warming
Virginia Gewin, a writer with Beacon Journal, spoke with Pamela Ronald, a rice geneticist at the University of California at ...
Over-regulation of ag biotechnology squanders billions of dollars
The big agribusiness companies have achieved “regulatory capture” of government agencies–but not in the way that many people think. At ...
Food challenges require overhaul of global food system not GMOs
Over the next 50 years, climate change will transform the world in ways we have only begun to imagine. Humans ...
Could genetics convert food crops to perennials, revolutionizing farming?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s a cycle nearly ...
