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 Earth’s Stewart Brand says consumer embrace of ‘healthier’ GM foods inevitable
Picture a parent roaming the supermarket aisles in 2050, scanning labels carefully for the all-important words “genetically modified ingredients”—to make ...
Critics say new multi herbicide resistant GMO crops will exacerbate ‘superweed’ problem
Move over, Roundup Ready crops. After gaining USDA approval last week, new generation of genetically modified corn and soybeans is ...
US subsidizes $125 million of organic farming research and conservation
The United States Department of Agriculture plans to announce that it will spend $52 million to support local and regional ...
California hippie engages battle on behalf of GMOs
While many anti-GMO folk support the scientific consensus on climate change, they belittle these same science institutions by denying the ...
Kenyan farmer wants the best crop tech for Africa
To many people around the world, the cassava is an exotic crop that they have never eaten. Or so they ...
Story of Darwinian evolution, as told by coffee plants
Charles Darwin did a fine job of showing why his theory of evolution explained the living world better than any ...
Video: Colorado farmers divided over GMO labeling bill
The Palisade and Grand Junction Chambers of Commerce have both come out in opposition to proposition 105, citing the negative ...
Tenderer meat? More nutritious milk? Genome editing targets improving livestock
Scientists are developing a new technology called genome editing they believe will revitalize the concept of genetically modified livestock since ...
War of the advertising airwaves underway in Oregon GMO labeling fight
In a TV ad paid for by advocates of labeling genetically modified foods in Oregon, voters are told 64 countries ...
GMO ‘steak chips’: Replacing slaughterhouses with genetically engineered meat
MIT Technology Review checks in with Modern Meadow CEO and cofounder Andras Forgacs. Modern Meadow aims to create leather and ...
Beijing kicks off campaign to improve GMOs image in China
China's government has kicked off a media campaign in support of genetically modified crops, as it battles a wave of ...
African scientists engineering genetically modified livestock vaccines
Agricultural scientists in different parts of Africa have been engaged in application of biotechnology mainly for developing improved crop varieties ...
Are there better alternatives than genetic engineering to develop drought resistant crops?
In the late-1990s, scientists Russell Rodriguez and Regina Redman were conducting research in Yellowstone National Park when they made a ...
Video: Mashable website tackles 4 common myths about GMOs
The popular website Mashable has a crisp video presentation on 4 Myths About GMOs. The four they tackle: Myth 1: ...
Do patents limit GMO research and farmers choice? Only a little
A 1980 Supreme Court decision that allowed patents to be granted to living things kicked off a controversy. The basic ...
Brazil OKs release of genetically engineered mosquitoes to control dengue virus
Thousands of British made genetically engineered mosquitoes were released by Brazilian researchers in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday infected with ...
Anti-GMO activists hope floodgates will open if Oregon passes labeling law
Is this the year that voters will finally insist on knowing which supermarket foods contain genetically modified organisms? Activists in ...
Colorado GMO label battle pit chefs against farmers
With the Nov. 4, 2014, ballot measure, Colorado is at the forefront of a fierce food fight raging across the ...
Podcast: UC-Davis’ Van Eenennaam on health impact of GMO crops on humans and animals
University of California-Davis animal biotechnology professor Alison Van Eenennaam, author of recent research published in the Journal of Animal Science [NOTE: article behind paywall ...
GMO opponents worry Big Six ag companies monopolize global food supply
What the next chapter in the evolution of agriculture has produced, is something akin to the pharmaceuticalization of food. Six ...
Photographic romance of GMO breeding
The genetic modification of foods is not the sort of topic that inspires ambivalence. When photographer Murray Ballard first visited the John ...
East African plant project targets tackle climate change, pests and diseases.
East African crop scientists have embarked on a five-year project to conserve indigenous plant genetic resources to improve food security ...
Unapproved GMO wheat again found, this time in Montana
Unregulated genetically modified wheat has popped up at a Montana research facility east of Billings, the U.S. Agriculture Department said ...
New generation Kansas Christian farm family addresses GMO truths and myths
Now, some of you may think you know a lot about GMOs. Others may have no idea what I am ...
Former Colorado ag commish: Vote ‘No’ on Colorado GMO labeling law
Colorado voters are faced with an important decision on the November 2014 ballot. As a former Colorado commissioner of agriculture, ...
Answers for home gardeners about GMOs
I would like to clear up for home gardeners: there are no GMO home vegetable seeds available now, and there ...
PBS’s John Hockenberry challenges Vandana Shiva on GMO misstatements
The Takeaway host John Hockenberry interviews anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva on Monsanto, Bt cotton and global trade, pesticide use, farmer ...
