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.
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 ...
It’s not easy going ‘non-GMO,’ say US food companies
U.S. food companies are rushing to offer consumers thousands of products free of genetically modified ingredients but are finding the ...
Biofortified analysis: Do GMOs offer nutritional advantages?
As part of Biology Fortified's serious The Promise of GMO's, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs ...
Backdoor effort in Washington State to label, stigmatize GM salmon
House Bill 2143 says consumers have the right to know exactly what kind of fish they are getting thrown at ...
Q: Why are we still shouting about GMOs? A: Because we’re not listening.
Why is it so hard for scientists and the public to agree about the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial backs labeling but not over health concerns
The GMO-free label on Cheerios is an indication that the consumer has won a battle for more information and transparency ...
American Soybean Association joins call for federal GMO labeling solution
The American Soybean Association is urging Congress to seek a federal solution to GMO labeling. Earlier this month, the ASA ...
Interactive graphic: Using agricultural technologies for sustainable food security
The International Food Policy Research has developed the Agritech Toolbox, an interactive online tool that demonstrates “how alternative agricultural practices ...
Do GMOs have to end world hunger in order to be desirable crops?
GMOs should not be held to impossible standards or justified with lofty world-saving promises—their proven, real-world value is enough to ...
GMO ban law up for vote in country of Georgia
Living genetically modified organisms will not be freely imported to Georgia and will only be permitted entry if planted in ...
Bad things can happen when food companies listen to anti-GMO activists instead of consumers
In removing genetically modified ingredients from Cheerios, General Mills joins the growing number of companies that are bending, not to ...
Princeton bioethicist/activist Peter Singer makes case to soften opposition to GMOs, Golden Rice
When genetically modified crops were first developed in the 1980’s, there were grounds for caution. Would these crops be safe ...
France passes decree banning planting of GM maize
France has published a decree to prevent the planting of modified maize as a stop-gap measure, while the government works ...
On GMOs, France becoming scientific backwater
France does not walk in the footsteps of Norman Borlaug. Half a century of rising farm productivity has let France ...
Sinking food prices may prompt farmers to shift to less expensive non-GMO seeds
Economics is driving more farmers to look at growing specialty corn and soybeans in 2014. Corn and soybean prices are ...
Arizona GMO labeling ballot initiative appears likely
The debate for labeling genetic modified foods, or products associated with genetically modified ingredients could take center stage in Arizona ...
GMOs and the skeptics: Will truth win out?
A social movement revolving around food and health concerns has made GMO labeling a galvanizing issue. The grassroots campaign to ...
Will New York have a GMO labeling bill fight?
Labeling food containing genetically modified ingredients might be a federal issue at some point, but the states are not done ...
France, Germany want right to buck European law, ban GM corn
France and Germany are to propose a new European law to allow member states to ban Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) ...
Center for Food Safety, Earth Justice renege on promise to defend Kauai’s anti-GMO law, leaving county with half million dollar bill
The promise of free legal services to defend Kauai County's controversial pesticide/GMO regulatory law has been relegated to the realm ...
Curious case of the EU’s GMO authorization system
No other regulated product category scores as high as GMOs in terms of number of product application dossiers that: a) ...
Is mutagenesis (e.g. organic Ruby Red grapefruits) the next target of anti-GMO groups?
Altering the genetic makeup of plants with gamma radiation or chemicals is considered a traditional breeding technique in the United ...
Globally, 12% of farmers now grow biotech crops — more than ever before
The campaigns against genetically modified foods are unrelenting, and they are having an impact on business. The retailer chain Whole ...
India’s Ag Minister: No credible reports that GM crops harmful
There are no “credible scientific reports” to prove that genetically modified (GM) crops have adverse impact on environment, human health ...
80% of Russians negative towards GMOs
Following the GMO debate some countries seek tighter regulations, while others place them at the core of agriculture. China is ...
Center for Food Safety calls claims of GE food ‘industry propaganda’
It seems like every day the food movement is gaining more power in the fight for the consumers' right to ...
Monsanto, so often demonized, is welcomed in food insecure Vietnam
In its latest show of endorsing controversial genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Vietnam is set to allow three foreign companies to ...
