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.
Oppostion to GM crops counter-productive to environment, economy and consumer
The news that Britain could soon grow genetically modified crops commercially is a victory for commonsense over irrational opportunism, and ...
Campaign launched to discredit Bill Gates backed vitamin A-enriched GMO banana
The latest nonsense emanating from the Anti camp is this from our friends at GMOFreeUSA: “GMO proponents claim that they ...
Hollywood actress Zoe Lister-Jones to star in anti-GMO movie
Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein, the couple behind the 2012 comedy Lola Versus, are in production on their follow-up, a ...
Who’s responsible for regulating GM food in Australia?
With the advent of crop genetic engineering in the 1980s, public controversy and intense public scrutiny over genetically modified (GM) ...
Biotechnology is not dangerous, but profit-hungry corporations’ controlling it is
Since giving my support to the May 24 march against Monsanto, I have taken the time to review some of the more ...
Saskatchewan 4th-generation wheat farmer calls for access to biotechnology
I’m a fourth-generation wheat farmer in Saskatchewan—and one of my longterm goals is to make sure the fifth generation on my ...
Larry King’s celebrity “experts” on GMOs were just uninformed consumers
Ensuring Skype worked properly sent my anxiety levels through the roof, even more so than facing off with Larry King ...
Polling in GMO debate fails to capture meaningful insight into public perception
Several of my colleagues recently conducted a survey in Key West, FL, where the Mosquito Control Board has proposed the ...
Republication of Séralini GM corn study does not sway critical scientists
A controversial paper linking genetically modified maize to the development of tumours in rats, which was published in 2012 and ...
Inconclusive results of republished Séralini GM corn toxicity study warrant further research
In 2012, a study was released that seemed at first glance to justify every anti-GMO advocate's worst fears: eating genetically ...
Major flaws remain unaddressed in republished Séralini GM corn toxicity study
A couple of years back a French research study (known as the Séralini.study after its primary author) claimed that rats ...
Costco scares consumers about GM, yet most of its products contain GMOs
Last week, just days after I wrote a very critical article skewering Whole Foods for lying to all of its customers about ...
Education of public about GM food should begin with chefs
Most high-profile chefs - or at least the ones on TV that have influenced whole generations of 'foodies' - are ...
Zimbabwe would gain from engaging in debate, rather than seeking GM food ban
Food, politics and health have once again come together in a media-friendly cocktail. Two thought-pieces with opposing views on Genetically ...
Vast majority of lab-sounding GM work was completed in fields through selective breeding
Genetic modification (GM) sounds very laboratory-based – people in white coats inserting and deleting genes – but the vast majority of GM ...
Civic group accuses Taiwanese FDA of misleading with ad claiming GM foods do not cause cancer
The Homemakers United Foundation yesterday accused the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of trying to mislead the public by running ...
Seralini rat study on toxicity of GM crops republished
Republication of the infamous Seralini study on the toxicity of genetically modified (GM) food crops has been met with renewed ...
Retracted Seralini study on GM corn toxicity republished with another unusual embargo
A highly controversial — and retracted — 2012 study by Gilles Seralini and colleagues of the effects of genetically modified maize and the ...
‘Science speaks for itself’: Séralini rat study on GM corn toxicity republished
GMOSeralini.org welcomes the news of the republication of the chronic toxicity study on the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup and a commercialized genetically modified ...
NGOs attack Cornell University as ‘hub of blind GMO promotion’ in India
With the NGOs raising a question whether the Intelligence Bureau is being used by foreign hands to take over India's ...
Europe warns Kenyan farmers that GM crop exports will not be accepted
Local farmers will find it difficult to export their crops to Europe if they adopt the Genetically Modified (GM) crops, ...
Biotech and chemical companies pour money backing GMO-friendly candidates in Hawaii
Hawaii has become “ground zero” in the controversy over genetically modified crops and pesticides. With the seed crop industry (including ...
India condemns Greenpeace, Vandana Shiva as ‘national security threats’
India's intelligence agency has targeted an adviser to Prince Charles and British activists in a campaign against Greenpeace and other ...
To MA legislators: Poorly-designed GMO labeling bill will misinform consumers
I understand that you support H3996 because you believe it is a labeling requirement, and my comments below will be ...
Fear of GMOs hurts US competitiveness, prevents ‘scientifically responsible’ investment
Socially responsible investing has become pretty popular in recent years as a growing population of investors has decided to take ...
