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.
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 ...
Anti-GMO critics dominate National Academy of Sciences crop biotech evaluation
The first two days of hearings on the latest round of scientific review for biotech crops and genetically engineered foods ...
Generation Y put off by anti-science, anti-GMO bent of green activists
What do we know about the so-called ‘Generation Y’? They are the ‘80s and ‘90s ‘Echo boomer’ children, the web ...
What happens when 100 billion animals, over 18 years, eat GMOs?
Visit almost any anti-GMO website and you will find alarming headlines about the alleged dangers of GMO foods. They kill ...
New weed fighting herbicide-tolerant GMO trait approved
The Agriculture Department has approved the commercial planting of corn and soybeans genetically engineered to survive being sprayed by the ...
Biotech could increase crop yields by improving photosynthesis
Two down, one to go. Researchers have completed the second of three major steps needed to turbocharge photosynthesis in crops ...
South African chain’s committment to reduce GMOs doesn’t impress activists
Woolworths has announced that it intends to cut back genetically modified or GMO products by 50 percent but food activists ...
Can researchers make a biotech wheat that’s not a GMO?
>Researchers have discovered "the most famous wheat gene," a reproductive traffic cop of sorts that can be used to transfer ...
Biotech industry appeasing anti-GMO critics
Executives at the helm of every biotech company, every farm bureau and every commodity group are listening rather intently to ...
Ralph Nader: Is GMO science corrupt?
The food we eat is increasingly engineered by corporate science. Biotech companies like Monsanto and DuPont have moved towards monopolizing ...
Public GMO studies database finds GMOs safe, half of studies independent
Critics of genetically modified crops often assert that all research into the plants’ safety is bought and paid for by industry ...
Let farmers, not activists, decide fate of GM crops in India
Professor Dr. Shanthu Shantharam of the Iowa State University’s Seed Science Centre said that the decision on the usage of ...
Regulating research in Uganda does not mean stopping research
Regulation should be part of any human activity as it creates a safe boundary for operation. Regulation is part of ...
Anti-GMOers accused of ‘fear mongering’ as fight over Maui GMO bill ramps up
There’s only a few weeks more until the vote in Maui County to place a “moratorium” on the biotech crops ...
Costa Rican activists demand right to know GM field locations
On September 11, 2014, the Sala IV declared the country’s approval process for GMO projects unconstitutional because it violates the right of ...
Can biotechnology rescue diseased Florida orange crop?
For the past decade, Florida's oranges have been literally starving. Since it first appeared in 2005, citrus greening, also known ...
How will religious authorities deal with lab-grown meat?
In Genesis, God granted humans dominion over animals. In modern times, that dominion has spawned one of the planet’s biggest ...
Ugandan committee questions safety of biotech bill
Considering GMOs to be dangerous, a report generated from consultations by the committee on science and technology has cautioned government ...
Conventional plant breeding outpaces GM technology for drought tolerance
Old-fashioned breeding techniques seem to be leading genetic modification in a race to develop crops that can withstand drought and ...
India to adopt new insect resistance management strategy for transgenic Bt cotton
Nagpur-based Central Institute for Cotton Research will soon write to the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) to allow sale of ...
Whole Foods GMO labeling support designed to pump profits, not inform
A label like that of the Non-GMO Project is uniquely effective at making GMOs seem scary. It highlights—and exaggerates—the prevalence of ...
Video: Cornell Alliance for Science says zero tolerance for GMOs prevents rational conversations
The Cornell Alliance for Science encouraged viewers to "unbundle" GMOs in a two-minute video released last week. Just like how sticks ...
New Yorker editor among many who stand by criticism of Vandana Shiva
A profile of the anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva in The New Yorker in August by Michael Specter has drawn a blistering, 5,000-word rebuttal from Shiva, who accuses Specter ...
New CEO of Monsanto India says Bt cotton research to continue
Monsanto, the $15 billion agrochemical multinational, continues to conduct field trials of genetically modified cotton seeds in India, despite a ...
Grocery Manufacturers Association seeks October hearing to block Vermont GMO labeling bill
Late last week lawyers for the Grocery Manufacturers Association asked a federal judge to shelve the state's GMO labeling law.It's ...
Brazilian presidential candidate Marina Silva reaches out to agribusiness, renounces anti-GMO stance
Brazilian presidential candidate Marina Silva, an icon of the green movement, is cozying up to old adversaries in the sugar ...
Norman Borlaug inspires biotech-based second ‘Green Revolution’
If Norman Ernest Borlaug were a Roman Catholic, he could be declared a saint immediately. The Church begins the canonisation ...
