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.
Battle shapes up over GM sugar beets in Oregon
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - A David-and-Goliath political battle is shaping up over genetically modified crops in Southern Oregon. Some ...
Russian parliament considers longshot draft law banning GMO food
The Russian State Duma (the parliament’s lower house) has worked out a draft law which would totally ban the production ...
Biotech crops help small Asian farms
A publication highlighting the findings of the research project Adoption and Uptake Pathways of Biotech Crops by Small-scale Resource-poor Asian Farmers: ...
Will GMO fight kill hopes for next generation of Hawaii farmers?
At this moment in time, with all of the vitriol in Hawaii over agriculture, I am not sure if I ...
Environmentalists’ stance on GMOs betrays progressive values
It is obviously inconsistent on the part of environmental groups such as Greenpeace to trumpet the importance of the worldwide ...
Why we need GM wheat
Three crops — corn, soybeans and wheat — account for a vast majority of the value of America’s agricultural crop ...
Independent UK editorial: Environmental movement credibility hinges on embracing GMOs
Contrary to the scaremongering of the anti-GM lobby, genetic engineering is less science-run-mad than a much-needed means to better health ...
Scott’s GM lawn grass undergoing home tests
After nearly two decades of research and some controversy, Scotts Miracle-Gro in Marysville is preparing to test a genetically modified ...
Colorado lawmakers again reject GMO labels
DENVER -- Labels on genetically modified foods have been rejected again by Colorado lawmakers. But the food-labeling debate could just be ...
Video: Is Hawaii’s Anti-GMO Movement Really Just Anti-Science?
Hawaii is at the center of the fight over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - and the food people are eating ...
South Africa: Unwarranted environmental fears hurts emerging economies
Exaggerated environmental claims—a “crying wolf” phenomenon—are counterproductive to environmental protection. They bring about misguided public policies that actively harm economies, ...
Just because scientists can genetically engineer foods doesn’t mean they should (or does it?)
This was written in response to the comment by Beth Hoffman in her article on Forbes, but it exceeded the given wordcount, ...
Is Monsanto hedging its bet on GMOs?
Is genetically modified seed giant Monsanto doing the unthinkable and moving away from genetically modified seeds? I've called Monsanto's press ...
Activists claim GM crops exacerbating Monarch butterfly decline
The number of Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) wintering in Mexico plunged this year to its lowest level since studies began in ...
Fish farmers in Washington state split over introduction of transgenic salmon
Fish farms in Washington are still not happy with an updated bill that intends to label transgenic fish. Transgenic is ...
Ecologist magazine pushes ‘Agent Orange’ demonization of GM corn, soybeans
A new report published today examines the dangers of the pesticide 2,4-D - an ingredient of Vietnam's Agent Orange - ...
China’s economic reasons for rejecting GM corn
Back in the beginning of December, China blocked 5 shipments of corn from entering the country. The General Administration of ...
Can genetically modified crops end hunger in Africa?
The African Union declared 2014 the Year of Food Security. The plan is to eradicate hunger on the continent by ...
Fears about technology and food are misplaced
If fire was the first technology, then farming was the first applied science. For thousands of years, farmers and inventors ...
Scientists square off against activists over Golden Rice
It is an unusual scene, which took place January 23 in front of the Greenpeace-quarters in Brussels: For once demonstrated ...
Video: How GMOs are created
Learn how GMOs are created in the video below. View the video's YouTube page: How Are GMOs Created? ...
Ethiopian farmers plan summer planting of Bt cotton
Ethiopian farmers are preparing to plant genetically modified cotton seedlings when the rainy season gets underway in June, in a ...
A protestor’s view of Monsanto shareholders meeting
At the Monsanto shareholders' meeting on Tuesday in which activists called for a vote on whether the company should enact ...
New Hampshire: Why I voted to kill the GMO labeling bill
New Hampshire State Representative Tracy Emerick explains why he voted to kill his state's GMO labeling bill: What seemed the ...
Are organic farmers over-using pesticides?
If you think you don't need to wash organic food before you eat it, I think you need a sanity ...
Anti-GMO activists escalate attack on Golden Rice
Golden Rice (GR) is genetically engineered to contain increased levels of beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A (also known as ...
GMOs matter most where climate change and population growth are challenges
The question of how we produce food, as the global population heads for nine billion in 2050, must be addressed ...
