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.
USDA report says GM crops show mix of benefits, concerns
After more than 15 years of using genetically modified crops, U.S. farmers are continuing to see an array of benefits, ...
Latest on the latest anti-GMO scare: Dangerous plant GMO is in your blood
The truth is that there may or may not be plant DNA in your blood. The single research paper making ...
Cornell scientist: Exaggerated caution slows adoption of GM crops
In normal science, risk has a precise but deceptively simple meaning: risk equals the probability of some hazard. Anyone booking ...
Maui citizens group pushes for GMO moratorium
Come November, the citizens of Maui County could be voting on a temporary suspension of all genetically modified crop production ...
The promise of GMOs evaluated: Herbicides
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
GMO 2.0: New generation of blight-resistant foods
Blight-resistant vegetables could be great for farmers, as well as for the environment. Potatoes are sprayed against blight up to ...
Southern sugar cane industry, threatened by deadly fungus, look to GMO solution
Brown rust fungus poses a serious threat to Louisiana's nearly $1 billion sugarcane industry. Thanks to funding from the American ...
Whole Foods under microscope for promoting pseudoscience on GMOs, health
A significant portion of what Whole Foods sells is based on simple pseudoscience. And sometimes that can spill over into ...
European scientists on African mission to break biotech logjam
Africa is expected to be the next target of GM food companies, as European scientists and policymakers travel to Ethiopia ...
How GMOs saved my life
GMOs weren’t personal until I almost died. After one ambulance ride and three days of wearing a heart monitor with ...
More risk from conventional breeding than with genetic modification
Fred Gould, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, used Lenape potatoes as an example of risk and uncertainty. Often, people frame ...
The Promise of GMOs: Do GM crops encourage conservation tillage?
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
GMOs in fem care products can kill you? Not if you follow the science
Last week, the tweets were flying furiously in a "Right to Know" campaign regarding fem care products (for more information, ...
Cereals reformulated to be non-GMO less nutritious than GMO versions
Post Foods’ new non-GMO Grape Nuts no longer include vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B12 or vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), while ...
Agricultural scientist Steve Savage: Am I A “Shill For Big Ag?
Because I blog, speak, and comment in support of various agricultural technologies, I am routinely accused of being a "shill ...
Green’s GM war costing millions of lives
The Soil Association (SA), Britain's foremost organic food organization, is indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of children because ...
The Promise of GMOs: Removing cancer causing mycotoxins from our food supply
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
General Mills says GMO Cheerios not boosting sales, ‘no’ to formulating more GMO free products
Ken Powell, the chairman and chief executive officer of General Mills, Inc. has a simple answer for anyone wondering if ...
Hungarian government opposes GMO corn
The Hungarian government will continue taking all measures necessary to prevent the growing of DuPont Pioneer 1507 genetically modified (GMO) ...
Genetically altered barley could boost Scotland’s whisky industry
Scientists are planning genetically to alter barley in a bid to boost Scotland’s whisky industry. Barley is a key ingredient ...
Sorry Greenpeace, Golden Rice is a win for nutrition and health
Greenpeace’s stand on golden rice is rather cynical and their article in support of their position offers bad science. It ...
Sampling of leading chefs skeptical about genetically modified foods
As part of the Daily Meal's special report on GMOs, the website asked seven leading chefs, including Floyd Cardoz, Frank ...
Australia must commit to develop genetically engineered livestock to meet global demand
Genetically engineered livestock will be critical to feeding the world's projected population of 9 billion people by 2050, according to ...
Anti-GMO farmer debates Monsanto spokesperson
To many foes of GMOs, most definitely including a good number of small farmers, the multinational Monsanto Company, headquartered in ...
More consumers look for ‘Non GMO’ label than for organics
About 19 percent of shoppers look for foods labeled non-GMO, trumping the 16 percent who look for organic labels. For ...
Oregon organic farmers say cross-pollination could endanger their niche crops
Twenty years after the first commercial varieties of genetically modified foods went on sale, farmers have embraced biotech crops that ...
Activist says GMO crops cause increase pesticide use
My problem with GMOs in plants grown for food is that most manipulation involves making them able to better withstand ...
