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.
Organic foods 4 to 8 times more likely to be recalled, regulators on the sidelines
Every day millions of shoppers are paying out as much as 50 or 100 percent more to buy organic foods ...
Walmart’s sustainability initiative dramatically reduces environmental impact of agriculture
Nearly a decade after setting a series of bold sustainability goals, Walmart has struggled to curb its climate pollution and ...
More farmers sue Syngenta, political flap over sales of GMO corn to China that it had not approved escalates
Farmers from the biggest U.S. corn-growing states have sued Syngenta AG over sales of genetically modified corn seed not approved ...
Are pesticides responsible for farmer depression, suicides?
On his farm in Iowa, Matt Peters worked from dawn to dusk planting his 1,500 acres of fields with pesticide-treated ...
Consumer Reports: Most processed foods labeled “natural” contain GMOs
A majority of U.S. packaged foods labeled as "natural" and tested by Consumer Reports actually contained a substantial level of ...
Foreign grain sales hold steady in wake of Montana GMO wheat discovery
More than a week after reports that genetically modified wheat unexpectedly turned up at a university research lab in Huntley, ...
Consumer acceptance of GMO rubber more likely than of GMO oranges
For crops that are grown in monocultures, especially trees and vines that take years to bear fruit and can't be ...
Cyanide Frankengrass kills cattle–Or not! Conventional breeding more unpredictable than GMOs
On Sunday there were dozens of reports, including on CBS, that GMO grass about "GMO" grass that killed cattle. It was ...
Chobani seeks non-GMO milk for yogurt, faces supply challenge, high prices
Chobani, the yogurt aisle darling and maven of healthy snacks, is looking to check another box for ingredient-conscious shoppers: non-genetically ...
Turbocharged photosynthesis could turn GMOs into invasive species
A joint team from Cornell University in New York and Rothamsted Research in the UK has successfully replaced a key ...
British farmers union calls for review of insecticide ban as losses mount
The National Farmer's Union of England and Wales (NFU) has called on policymakers to urgently review the evidence showing the ...
‘Corporate interests’ making us sick, warping food and medicine policies
Money in politics is making our nation sicker, threatening our national security, and ultimately destroying the very economic prosperity the ...
Interactive map: Oregon GMO labeling campaign – Follow the money!
The Oregonian has published an interactive map detailing the source and size of contributions to both sides in the Measure ...
Let’s play GMO Jeopardy!
In my discussions about GMOs, I've come to the realization that many of the issues that are raised are not ...
Precautionary principle backfires in Europe, insecticide ban harms bees and farming
An EU pesticide ban that was supposed to protect bees has done no such thing. All it does is damage ...
Interview: USDA investigation into unapproved GE wheat found in Montana fields
America's Food and Farm radio's Ray Bowman interviews Montana State University spokesman Tracy Ellig and crop consultant Steve Savage about the ...
Interview: Vandana Shiva responds to New Yorker profile
Correspondent Fedrico Rampini interviews Vandana Shiva for the Italian newspaper Repubblica, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the profile ...
Food Hunk challenges Foodbabe and other anti-GMO activists
Early this September I attended the National Heirloom Expo in Santa Rosa. It’s an event that’s centered around the pure ...
Eugene, Oregon editorial: GMO labeling would provide information consumers want
Since 2002, concern about GMO products has gained traction across Oregon. Earlier this year, voters in two rural, conservative counties ...
Bio-engineered yogurt could make colonoscopies obsolete
A spoonful of yogurt could soon offer a cheap and simple way to screen for colorectal cancer. Sangeeta Bhatia, a ...
Enviro groups solicit Congress to pressure EPA to suspend neonic insecticides
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is getting pressure from environmental and sustainable agriculture organizations and members of Congress to ...
Top Ten issues more important than labeling GMOs
As a follow up to his list of 4 problems that GMO labeling won't solve, Nathanael Johnson of the environmental ...
As Nigerian population explodes, GMOs languish in political purgatory
Officials of the Nigerian Society for Microbiology (NSM) have alerted the Federal Government to brace up to the challenge of ...
New UN food czar: Need small farms, not ‘industrial ag’ to feed the world
Modern industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, due to the impacts of overlapping environmental and ecological crises ...
Consumer Reports claims mandatory GMO labels won’t raise food prices, ignoring research
Opponents of GE labeling laws cite high labeling costs from some published studies. Consumers Union and other labeling proponents cite ...
4 concerns mandatory GMO labels don’t address
This election season, there are initiatives on the ballot in Colorado and Oregon to label foods made with the help ...
Genetic basis for Monarch butterfly’s migration uncovered
The monarch butterfly is one of the most iconic insects in the world, best known for its distinct orange and ...
