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.
Iowa consumers care more about taste, price, nutrition, safety than organic or GMOs in food
Iowans care about where their food is grown, whether it's organic, made with high-fructose syrup or without GMOs, a new ...
Stewardship program essential for new GM herbicide-resistant crops to be effective
On June 30 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed a 60-day comment period on its proposed decision to register ...
Oregon’s GMO task force gets few answers from federal GMO regulators
An Oregon task force studying genetically modified crops and food grilled federal regulators at its meeting Thursday, but didn’t get a lot ...
Ag industry’s failure to communicate biotech’s benefits to blame for heated GMO debate
The heated public debate over genetically modified foods shows the agricultural industry is not doing enough to communicate biotechnology's benefits ...
El Salvadoran farmers protest millions in US aid over GM seeds
Farmers in El Salvador are protesting against a multimillion-dollar grant from a US aid agency that would force the country to open its seed ...
Single standard needed for GMO labeling to serve consumers, not special interests
I have a big family—and between me, my kids, and my grandkids, we’re spread out across America. We live in ...
Similarities between anti-GMO and anti-vaccine activists
If there’s one characteristic that nearly all cranks share it’s an intolerance of criticism and a tendency to want to ...
GM papaya registry in Hawaii will not release growers’ information publicly
Judge Greg Nakamura granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday preventing Hawaii County from disclosing the identity and specific location of farms ...
EU still torn over crop-based biofuels amid fear of rising food costs
The debate over biofuels risks dragging on, despite EU energy ministers reaching an agreement on the controversial crop-based fuels. EU ...
Inside look at Jeffrey Smith’s anti-GMO event
A small group of Centre For Inquiry members and University of British Columbia Okanagan professors were in the Okanagan College ...
Japanese scientists find GM cure for flower aging, help bouquets remain fresh for longer
Japanese scientists say they have found a way to slow down the ageing process in flowers by up to a ...
Iowa State expert in food science and human nutrition: No evidence that GMOs are harmful
The question of whether GMOs are safe to eat is one among many that Ruth MacDonald hears a lot of. MacDonald ...
GMOs can be developed to promote soil health and fertility
Biotechnology can be used to improve soil health but that’s not necessarily happening the way it is being used today, ...
Oregon has no authority over federally approved GM crops, state officials say
Oregon agriculture officials say the state has no authority over genetically modified crops once federal regulators deem them safe for ...
Philippines can become chicken exporter if it adopts high-yielding GM corn
Philippines stands to secure a niche in the global chicken-export market if it can reduce feed prices to global levels ...
Western Australian farmer hailed hero for resisting ‘bullying’ over GM ‘contamination’
Western Australian farmer Michael Baxter has been described as a modern day hero who should be hailed for resisting “the ...
Widespread GM crop adoption created ‘agricultural desert,’ starving honeybees
The life of honeybees in the United States used to be much simpler, but now beekeepers are navigating a gauntlet ...
GM debate distracts from urgent need to address food security and sustainability
Once again, there are calls to reopen the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops. I find these calls frustrating and ...
Oregonian editorial: GMO labeling push ‘stigmatizes products’, sows confusion
The Oregonian, known for its independent and mostly liberal views on policy issues, has come out with an editorial on ...
Return of iconic American chestnut with help of GE calls for celebration
If the greatest living American were a tree, it would probably be the chestnut. In the first half of the 20th ...
Amish farmers embrace biotechnology, plant GE corn and tobacco
It seems the Amish have turned the tables on conventional wisdom. Most consumers are very pro-technology and innovation when it ...
Seralini study data ‘mess’, even shows GMO and glyphosate diet increased male rat lifespans
According to Andrew Kniss, a weed expert at the University of Wyoming, who reviewed the limited data released in the ...
Will anti-GM Europe change its mind about GM foods?
While the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and China and many other countries have warmly embraced genetically modified crops, Europe ...
Mexican scientific community split by legal battle over GM corn
The Mexican scientific community has been torn apart by a legal battle over transgenic maize (corn). Almost a year after ...
GM herbicide-resistant crops, herbicides not sustainable weed control
The Register's agriculture writer, Donnelle Eller, recently reported on a startling new arrival in the state: A "superweed" that may ...
US trade official: Biotech and organics can work together to sustainably feed growing planet
Jack Bobo, chief of Biotechnology and Textile Trade Policy and senior advisor for biotechnology in the Department of State's Bureau ...
Dietician’s concerns over GMOs prompt embrace of organic foods
As a dietitian, I rarely recommend anything to a client that I wouldn't do myself. So when it came to ...
