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.
New GMO labeling bill proposed for California
Back when Prop 37 was voted down by California residents in 2012, it felt like a missed opportunity. Here was ...
If Seralini’s study is valid, he should be able to publish it in legit journal
The 2012 work by Seralini et al has long been retracted, and months later friends and admirers of Prof Seralini still ...
‘Precautionary Principle’ justifies GMO bans, restrictions
If you want to know where someone stands on health and environment there can be few better barometers than their ...
Observer UK editorial board endorses jumpstarting GM crops
Feeding the swelling numbers of people on our planet is one of the most serious challenges facing our leaders today ...
Vitamin A enhanced Golden Rice opponents should be held accountable for health problems
By 2002, Golden Rice was technically ready to go. Animal testing had found no health risks. Syngenta, which had figured out how ...
General Mills turns to ‘Raja Of The Country Of World Peace’ to certify its costlier, non-GMO Cheerios
Recently, cereal makers General Mills and Post announced that they had reformulated their flagship brands (Cheerios and Grape Nuts, respectively) to avoid ...
GMO and Indian farmer suicide backgrounder
The claim that the introduction of GM crops in India has caused an increase in farmer suicides was not based ...
Taiwan passes new GMO labeling restrictions
Taiwan’s government recently passed a law, which when implemented, will set some new tolerance regulations for food containing genetically modified ...
It’s a state-by-state battle for GMO label advocates
The issue of labeling foods that contain genetically modified ingredients has taken hold in states around the country, and more ...
Center for Food Safety sues USDA over genetically modified alfalfa
A food safety group filed a lawsuit in hopes of forcing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to release documents in court that ...
GMO ban in Oregon could cost more than $200,000, says official
A local ban on genetically modified crops could cost Jackson County, Oregon, more than $200,000 a year to enforce, according ...
Here is what GMO labels could cost consumers
The question of whether to require labels on food with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) pits activists and consumers who favor ...
God Move Over (GMO)
Scanning the web for slogans and catch-phrases that slur biotech crops rouses the usual suspects: “frankenfoods,” “our kids are not ...
Q&A: Hawaii mayors on pros and cons of GM crops on their islands
Hawaii Business magazine interviewed the three Neighbor Island Hawaii mayors on various topic including the future of agriculture and GMOs. Edited ...
Looking at the hard evidence on GM cotton and farmer suicide in India
Most of the cotton grown in India comes from GM seeds, referred to as Bt cotton having had the addition ...
The GMO labeling fight is heating up in Massachusetts
Large food manufacturers and industry representatives are fighting a renewed push to force them to disclose genetically modified ingredients in ...
In Vermont a state senator and organic farmer push for GMO labeling
David Zuckerman, an organic farmer and state senator, is a key advocate for ensuring that foods containing genetically modified ingredients be ...
Q&A: Hawaii mayors on pros and cons of GM crops on their islands
Hawaii Business magazine interviewed the three Neighbor Island Hawaii mayors on various topic including the future of agriculture and GMOs. Edited ...
Vietnam slow and cautious when it comes to GMOs
Speaking during the seminar launch of ISAAA Brief 46 on Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops for 2013 on February 20, 2014 in Hanoi, Dr ...
GMOs are today’s kiwis
In the 20th Century, a new food was introduced to the human diet. Grown by farmers in New Zealand without ...
Opinion: Death by GM contamination
How did all this happen? Easily. By steady, unrelenting persuasion by a chemical-cum-GM seed multinational sitting around in Pakistan the ...
Black Swan author Nassim Taleb warns of unpredictable dangers from GMOs
New York University professor Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, which many believe foreshadowed the events leading up to the Great ...
Filipino farmers embrace GM eggplant when informed
A study contends that 96 percent of Filipino farmers are willing to shift to a genetically modified (GM) eggplant and ...
Broadening coalition supports federal pre-emption of piecemeal state GMO labeling laws
A broadening coalition of 29 U.S. organizations is urging Congress to develop federal standards to guide the labeling of food ...
Gene identified that may make it easier to engineer plants
A recent discovery could lead to easier genetic modification of plant varieties considered recalcitrant to standard methods, including varieties of ...
Can a GMO and non-GMO coexistence policy work in the US?
They don’t get along like peas in a pod, but farmers who plant genetically modified crops need to coexist with ...
