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.
Food Babe ‘baffled’ by Neil deGrasse Tyson’s support of biotech
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GE foods make comeback in New Zealand
The GE-free movement was one of the great activist successes in New Zealand history. In 1999, 20,000 people marched down ...
India needs informed debate towards common goal of food security on GM crop trials
As India asserts its position globally, it must develop and use the best technologies for the benefit of Indian farmers ...
GMO ice cream war: Ben & Jerry’s and parent Unilever at at odds over GMO labeling
With Ben & Jerry’s CEO Jostein Solheim at his side, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed the nation’s first law requiring labeling of ...
European regulator rejects France’s attempt to ban GM corn
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said French documentation supporting the country's attempt to ban Monsanto's MON810 genetically modified ...
Anti-GMO non-profits try to intervene in lawsuit against Hawaii’s GM crop ban
National nonprofits Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety, along with Big Island farmers Nancy Redfeather, Marilyn Howe and Rachel Laderman, ...
Filipino organic farmers, traders protest field trials of GM crops
A group of organic movers, farmers and traders on Sunday staged a protest against the field trials of genetically modified ...
NaturalNews’ Mike Adams echoes Stalinists in calling for violence against scientists
Recently, Mike Adams (the Natural News ‘Health Ranger’), a highly public figure in natural foods and magical thinking, made a less ...
Audio: Keith Kloor discusses NaturalNews’ Mike Adams’ call to arms against biotech supporters
Mike Adams, the self-proclaimed "Health Ranger" of NaturalNews.com recently portrayed biotech supporters as "Nazi collaborators" and suggested that extreme actions ...
GMO ice cream war: Ben & Jerry’s and parent Unilever at at odds over GMO labeling
With Ben & Jerry’s CEO Jostein Solheim at his side, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed the nation’s first law requiring labeling of ...
European ‘green groups’ block science reform over independent advisor backing of GE research
It is, perhaps, not the best of times for Greenpeace. Many of its supporters are angered at the revelation that ...
Western Australian organic farmer’s grounds for appeal in GE canola ‘contamination’ case unclear
Kojonup organic farmer Steve Marsh took his neighbour Michael Baxter to court earlier this year, claiming GM canola drifted onto ...
Univ of Hawaii reviews environmental impacts of GM crops
RoundUp Ready® (RR) crops and other herbicide-resistant GM crops have increased the use of no-till agriculture, which conserves topsoil and ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson shows GMOs are not liberals’ equivalent of climate denial
I once asked Twitter to name the liberal equivalent of conservatism's climate change denial: that is to say, an issue ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson defends pro stance on GMOs following video
This brief clip of me was posted by somebody: Everything I said is factual. So there's nothing to disagree with ...
GMO controversy ‘more cultural than scientific’
Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, remain controversial, but like so many other politically hot topics, the controversy is more cultural ...
Public fears stall approval of GM crops for commercial planting in China
Despite recent research advances, such as a new strain of wheat that resists destructive mildew, commercial planting of genetically modified food ...
Kansas tea partier finds common cause with liberals on GMO labeling
Todd Tiahrt is a proud former member of the House tea party caucus. He claims to have a “100 percent pro-life ...
Reflecting internal rift, Indian government puts field trials for 15 GM crops on hold
The battle over testing of genetically modified crops in India took a new turn this week with the Bharatiya Janata ...
‘Level playing field’ needed for biotech in agriculture
The use of biotechnology is big within the health industry, the area of industrial envrionment and agriculture, but while it ...
Bt cotton helped Indian farmers, but success not uniform
Cotton is a light and breathable fabric but it sure does get itself into some very contentious debates. It has been a central ...
Politics alert: Is Obama Administration holding up approval process for AquaBounty GM salmon?
The mood at AquaBounty Technologies a year ago was buoyant. Regulators had released a draft assessment of the company’s genetically ...
Safeway shareholders reject GMO labeling, garners only 10 percent support
Shareholders at Safeway have rejected a proposal from the Green Century Equity Fund calling for mandatory GMO labeling on its ...
Vermont raised over $160,000 in private donations to defend GMO labeling law
Vermont has raised more than $160,000 in private donations to help defend what would be the nation's first GMO labeling ...
‘Big Oil’ can’t ‘buy’ science organizations on climate change, neither can Monsanto on GMOs
Would you eat a plant that makes its own toxic pesticides, contains DNA from viruses and bacteria, sports genes that ...
China insists on GMO-free corn exports from U.S.
U.S. corn supplies will be even bigger next year if China keeps import curbs on a genetically modified variety of ...
Africa losing opportunities to reduce poverty because of ‘dysfunctional’ GM debate
Opportunities to enhance crop yields and reduce poverty in Africa are being lost because of a “polarised public debate” on ...
