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.
Confronting fear of genetic modification, a life-saving technology
GMO Skepti-Forum has begun featuring essays by readers on the GMO controversy. We’re going to be featuring some of them on the ...
Bill introduced in US Congress that would block mandatory GMO food labeling by states
State efforts to label genetically-modified food would be outlawed under a bill unveiled by a Kansas congressman Wednesday – a ...
Vitamin A-deficient children need Golden Rice now, everything else is noise
There is a need for what Golden Rice can deliver: vitamin A. According to the World Health Organization an estimated ...
No logic in giving up GMO food production for organic
So what is “organic,” really? To look at this question, it can be easier to start with what is not ...
Food industry claim New York’s GMO labeling bill would cost consumers
Legislation is pending before the state Legislature to require GMO labeling on all food products. Sound reasonable? Maybe, but not ...
Maui anti-GMO campaigners petition with 9,500 signatures, pro-GMO groups hold their ground
A total of 9,500 signatures were submitted to the county on Monday as part of a petition calling for the ...
Anti-GMO activists in Bangladesh caught lying about ‘failed’ Bt eggplant farms
Recently, the Financial Express in Bangladesh published a news article entitled ‘Pest-resistant Bt Brinjal comes under pest attack’, claiming that ...
Maui protestors fear GMOs and chemicals except when it’s not convenient
Last week Sunday was yet another march against biotechnology on Maui. There were quite a bit of pictures and videos ...
GM mosquitoes can control mosquito menace, if politics doesn’t block development
Mosquito-borne diseases kill millions of people annually, and cause suffering for many more. It takes only one bite from a disease-carrying ...
Simplot discusses GE potato that doesn’t brown or produce cancer-causing acrylamide
Biology Fortified sent Simplot some questions about their GE Simplot potato that doesn’t brown when cut or fried, nor does ...
‘Green gene’ movement can blend genetic engineering and organic practices
While most people treat genetic engineering and organic agriculture as worlds apart, the green gene movement is trying to think ...
Frankenstein’s Cat: How biotechnology is shaping the future of animals
Emily Anthes’ ‘Frankenstein’s Cat – Cuddling Up To Biotech’s Brave New Beasts’, is now out in paperback and worth a read ...
India set to approve GM jute, second biotech crop after cotton
India is likely to see commercialization of genetically modified (GM) jute in a month. Developed by the Kolkata University, GM ...
Vermont’s GMO-labeling law should be considered more carefully
The decision by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Vermont to pass a bill requiring labels on foods made ...
Vermont legislators confident of GMO-labeling bill
Legislation that would make Vermont the first state in the country to require the labeling of food products that contain ...
Video: Cargill says mandatory GMO-labeling is ‘long-term mistake’
Cargill executive chairman Gregory Page discussed the impact of global warming on the nation’s food supply, rising food prices and ...
Average Joe’s take on the GMO controversy: How to evaluate conflicting claims
GMO Skepti-Forum has begun featuring essays by readers on the GMO controversy. We're going to be featuring some of them ...
Secretary of Agriculture backs GMOs, farming ‘collaboration’ in House hearing
The topic of genetically modified food has come up in a handful of hearings lately, and the message from this ...
RNAi researcher accuses Monsanto of muzzling her research, hiding risks of GMOs
After nearly 30 years studying how plants use their genes to defend against viruses, Vicki Vance, a professor at the ...
Norman Borlaug’s life was one of extraordinary paradox
Norman Borlaug, the plant breeder known as the Father of the Green Revolution, would have been 100 on March 25 ...
Organic and anti-GMO movements in perfect anti-technological symbiosis
You can’t separate the organic movement from the anti-GMO movement. They are one and the same, existing in perfect anti-technological ...
GM food just the latest chapter in 10,000 years of high-tech agriculture
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were introduced commercially for agriculture in the United States in the mid 1990s. Anti-GMO activists and ...
How anti-biotech groups leveraged fear of pesticides to pass Kauai anti-GMO bill
The feast of fear that was intentionally served up to pass Bill 2491, the pesticide/GMO regulatory bill, is now serving ...
Anti-biotech activists threaten McDonald’s to spurn GM potatoes
J.R. Simplot, a company that produces over 3 billion pounds of potatoes each year, hopes to soon add a genetically engineered variety ...
Investors in engineered salmon skittish over retailers’ caution and regulatory delays
The Obama administration has stalled for more than four years on deciding whether to approve a fast-growing salmon that would ...
Genetically engineered poplar trees break down more easily, hailed as environmental boon
Researchers have genetically engineered poplar trees with lignin that breaks down more easily, opening the door to cheaper biofuels and ...
Researchers develop new approach to compare GM and non-GM foods
Does genetic manipulation causes unintended changes in food quality and composition? Are genetically modified (GM) foods less nutritious than their ...
