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.
Mainstream consumers don’t appear concerned about GMOs
It’s starting to look like the average eater doesn’t care about GMOs. At the very beginning of 2014, General Mills ...
GMO eggplant may unlock Asian food revolution, cut pesticide use, farmer deaths
The humble aubergine – you might call it eggplant or brinjal – may be about to unlock a food revolution ...
Deconstructing Dr. Oz misrepresentations on pesticide exposure danger
Andrew Kniss, a scientist with an expertise in pesticides and weed control, addressed a segment on the Dr. Oz show in ...
General Mills shareholders reject proposal to dump GM foods
General Mills Inc. has made strong commitments this year to natural and organic foods. It took genetically modified ingredients out ...
Oregon GMO label advocates release first TV ads
The Yes on 92 campaign, the largest proponent of Oregon’s labeling measure, launched its first two ads on September 23. The ...
Will EU countries be allowed to opt out of approved biotech crops?
After four years of uncertainty, an EU Commission proposal to permit individual countries to opt out of allowing the planting ...
GMO cotton has transformed India into world’s largest cotton exporter
India’s cotton economy has undergone a radical and unheralded transformation over the past decade. From being a net importer of ...
Monsanto chief scientist Rob Fraley backs national GMO-free law, defends patenting
Radio host John Hockenberry interviews Monsanto chief technology officer Rob Fraley on GMO labeling, feeding the world, neocotinoids and honeybees, ...
Farmer asks, Why are scientists sitting on the sidelines in the GMO debate?
It's perhaps too easy to laugh off the whole GMO issue: the opponents so over the top, the proponents, including ...
Cannabis DNA mapping could lead to more consistent “highs”
Nine months ago, Mowgli Holmes, 42, started Phylos Bioscience in Southwest Portland with entrepreneur Nishan Karassik, 44, with the aim ...
Dr. Bronner pumps in money to pass Oregon mandatory labeling campaign
The most expensive food fight in Oregon history is just getting interesting, and David Bronner is smack in the middle ...
India’s political flip-flopping over new GM field trials paralyzes innovation
In August, India’s ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stopped its legislators from accepting Monsanto sponsorship to attend a farm ...
Gates Foundation funds research for genetic tools in sweet potato breeding
North Carolina State University will receive $12.4 million over the next four years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...
Agent Orange redux? Dr. Oz called out for fear-mongering on newest GMO products
Dr. Oz, infamous for his promotion of alternative medicine remedies and organic foods, and for his scaring people about chemical ...
9 most asked questions about GMOs: University of Florida’s Kevin Folta answers
The Refinery 29 has collected the most asked questions about GMOs from their readers and asked University of Florida plant ...
Anti-GMO policies stifling response to Australia’s growing farm pest problem
South Australian Liberal Senator Sean Edwards says an outbreak of beet western yellow virus has “blindsided” croppers in his home State ...
Fundraising by opponents of GMO labels outpaces advocates in Oregon
So far the No on 92 campaign has raised more than $1 million, about $800,000 of which is still on ...
Vandana Shiva entitled to her own opinions, not her own facts
A recent New Yorker article by Michael Specter does an excellent job of putting the activism of anti-GMO campaigner, Vandana Shiva, into ...
Activists, farmers link GMOs to use of neonic pesticide, claim bees endangered
Today, genetically engineered crops dominate agriculture, and two-thirds of the world’s cropland gets a regular dose of neonicotinoids, including 90 ...
Politics not science likely behind China’s halt of crop biotech trials
Chinese officialdom appears to be at an impasse on its approach to genetically modified foods. The GMO impasse may have ...
Technology-based agriculture in Africa could lower carbon pollution as farming expands
Hank Campbell, editor of Science 2.0, summarizes a new study that looks at land use and carbon footprint for agriculture in ...
Swaziland embracing GM cotton
Minister of Tourism and Environmental Affairs Jabulani Mabuza has challenged local farmers to embrace genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and apply the ...
PBS video: Golden Rice faces challenges in Phillipines
Vitamin A deficiency is a deadly threat to kids and pregnant mothers in the Third World. In the Philippines, the ...
7 ways biotech crops fail in feeding the world
Many in the biotechnology industry seem to believe there’s a simple solution to the global food crisis: genetically modified (GM ...
Can ‘Big Data’ help sidestep the controversy over GMOs and the future of food
Inside a squat building on San Francisco’s 10th Street, packed into a space that looks a lot like a high ...
Aussie organic farmer who lost GMO ‘contamination’ case faces $800,000 in court costs
Organic farmer Steve Marsh and his wife Sue could be forced to pay almost $804,000 in court costs after suffering ...
Colorado GMO label law = $500 food tax
The Right to Know Colorado GMO proposition 105 mandates the labeling of GMO food products. Since consumers like to know ...
