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.
Poor pay for the affluent’s misplaced anxiety over GMOs
I wrote several papers on the political economy of agricultural biotechnology that analyzes the opposition and support of GM. The ...
Philippines NGO claims Golden Rice poses economic threat to organic farmers
The contamination of organic rice from the genetically modified Golden Rice poses an economic threat to many organic farmers in ...
Academics Review: Organic food industry engaged in ‘multi-decade public disinformation campaign’
Consumers have spent years paying over the odds for organic foods based on the erroneous belief - promulgated by stakeholders ...
Biofuels from corn residue worse than gasoline for climate change in short term
Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, ...
Glyphosate dangers in breast milk challenged as ‘junk science’
On April 7, 2014 a television “documentary” in Australia reported that a study of 10 nursing mother’s milk revealed the presence ...
Academics debate what GMO labeling policy should look like
Mark Edelman, professor of economics at Iowa State University, and Barry Flinchbaugh, emeritus professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State ...
‘Organic mommy mafia’ pushes foods based on misleading claims of health and nutrition
“Am I going to be an outcast?” A friend, who recently moved to an upscale neighborhood in Madison, Wis., called ...
Shortages may trigger food wars by 2050
Within a few more decades, dire food shortages may lead to global-scale conflict, warned a top plant scientist in the ...
Guidelines needed for safe GM crop field trials in Indian
Agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan has stressed the need for revising the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill, which will lapse along with ...
Anti-GMO activists hijacked Indian farmer suicides story for their own agenda
Of the many horror stories we hear about GMOs, few are as heart-rending as the one about how nearly 300,000 ...
Greenpeace denies stealing GM seeds from Chinese university experimental fields
Greenpeace on Monday rebuffed accusations of attempted theft from Huazhong Agricultural University's Hainan research base after three members were stopped ...
Oregon farmers divide over growing GM crops
Sams Valley farmer Bruce Schulz stands in a field that has genetically modified alfalfa on one side and conventional alfalfa ...
Vermont’s GMO labeling bill reminiscent of overturned rBST labeling law
Vermont is again poised to be the one who steps out on labeling requirements. In 1995 it mandated the labeling ...
Africa lagging behind in GE crops acquisition
African economies are still lagging behind in acquisition of agricultural biotechnology and particularly genetically engineered crops. A report by International ...
Connecticut’s GM seed opposition is assault on science
To create high-paying jobs in Connecticut, economic development professionals often remind us that the future belongs to places that value ...
Organic’s rejection of GM foods is unfortunate ‘green’ food fad
Organic agriculture is a mainstay of the modern environmental movement. Proponents say organic food is better for the environment because ...
Celebrity chef champions sustainable seafood, includes farmed salmon on menu
Celebrity chef Rick Moonen was a champion of sustainable seafood long before it was the cool thing to do. When ...
Hawaii papaya growers proud of GM Hawaiian papayas
In this era where shippers and processors are taking extra steps to ensure consumers know their products are free of ...
Anti-GMO activists embrace Russia’s Putin
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently told a group of leaders from rural settlements that when it comes to food ...
What if activists fought against all technology like they oppose biotechnology?
Think about the technology you have around your house. Maybe your TV, DVD player, your smartphone, your tablet. Maybe you ...
Widespread misinformation about GM foods common even in farm country
A recent trip to my local farm supply store reminded me of why it's so important that each and every ...
Top Ghanaian politician calls for GM foods ban
Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, chairperson of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has expressed reservation over attempts to introduce genetically modified foods ...
Marker-assisted DNA screening results in new super hybrid crops in record time
Alan Krivanek, a tomato breeder for Monsanto, dons a white protective suit, wipes his feet on a mat of disinfectant ...
Strawberry not sweet? Blame its genetics
If you've ever bitten into a strawberry and wondered why it doesn't taste as sweet or as good as others ...
What are the fixes if the world’s banana crops succumb to disease?
TR4 is the natural born killer of the banana world, capable of wiping out entire plantations within two to three ...
How to feed a world with 9 billion people in 5 steps
When we think about threats to the environment, we tend to picture cars and smokestacks, not dinner. But the truth ...
New GM omega-3 seeds approved for trials in Britain
Permission has been granted by the British department of environment, food and rural affairs for the planting of a genetically ...
