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.
Preventing hunger: Biotechnology can only help
If African countries can’t plant genetically modified crops to produce more and healthier food, vulnerable populations will be at risk, ...
Junk food lobby brings bag of dirty tricks to New Hampshire GMO labeling fight
In secret documents that I uncovered in November, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (aka food industry lobbyists) laid out its five-point plan for opposing the ...
New test can reveal GMOs in food
The first comprehensive test to detect genetic modification in food has been unveiled. As the abundance of genetically modified (GM) ...
Grain groups request Syngenta stop selling some GMO corn seeds
U.S. grain industry groups are urging Syngenta AG to stop selling new genetically engineered corn varieties that aren't approved in ...
GMO activists stage protest outside Greenpeace’s Brussels office
GMO activists launched a campaign to get EU approval for genetically engineered crops, staging a protest outside the Brussels office ...
GM crops could help to solve the problem of over-fishing
One of the thornier questions we face is how to feed a global population heading towards 10 billion and beyond ...
Monsanto is more than just GMOs
Monsanto makes money selling genetically modified seeds. Though once a broader-scale chemicals company, Monsanto's seeds and genomics business accounted for over ...
Anti GMO activist view of what sank Washington state’s GMO labeling initiative
Last November, a slim majority of Washington voters were persuaded that they did not need to know about the GMO ...
New Hampshire House rejects GMO food labeling
New Hampshire’s House killed a bill Wednesday that would have required genetically modified foods to be labeled. The House voted ...
Hawaii County Council votes against full GMO ban
It was deja vu for the Hawaii County Council on Tuesday as it voted against a full ban on genetically ...
Bangladesh joins the global GMO club, introduces Bt brinjal (eggplant)
Bangladesh became the 30th country to cultivate a genetically motivated crop with the introduction this week of Bt brinjal--eggplant modified ...
Will Kellogg follow Gen Mills and Post in non-GMO embrace?
Many brands are "playing a waiting game" right now to whether moves by General Mills and Post Foods to axe ...
Tanzania developing drought tolerant hybrid seeds
On January 10, the Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) project in Tanzania, in collaboration with the Commission for Science ...
Four trends driving food labeling
Like food, labels are something we need, but are at constant risk of abusing. The FDA regulates what can, as ...
General MIlls emboldens fringe groups by removing GM ingredients from Cheerios
This month General Mills announced that it would begin labeling its flagship product, the breakfast cereal Cheerios, as containing no ...
New Hampshire legislators on GMO labeling bill: ‘Makes no sense’
According to two members of New Hampshire's Environment & Agriculture Committee that studied House Bill 660, the bill to require ...
Vitamin enhanced GM ‘Golden Orange’ grows faster, provides antioxidant protection
A team of researchers in Spain have engineered a "golden orange" that grows more quickly than conventional oranges and contains ...
Would you prefer to eat genetically modified eggs, or see day-old chicks destroyed?
World egg production industries rely on a single sex only (female), with the males generally disposed of by carbon dioxide ...
Why the Gates Foundation wants to make Golden Rice
Imagine if you could prevent hundreds of millions of children from suffering malnutrition maladies such as blindness, stunting, poor health ...
Gene technology develops longer, stronger cotton fiber
An international team with Texas A&M University ties is using cutting-edge genetic engineering techniques to suppress expression of a key protein in ...
What if natural products came with a list of ingredients?
Processed foods are notorious for their jaw-droppingly long lists of chemical-laden ingredients, each one sounding worse than the last. But ...
After voters reject GMO labeling, Washington state lawmaker aim at GM salmon
Months after Washington voters narrowly rejected an initiative requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods, lawmakers are reviving the GMO ...
Pakistan working to formulate ‘national biotechnology policy’
Pakistan's Ministry of National Food Security has started the process to formulate a ‘national biotechnology policy’, and was working on ...
Food First anti-GMO activist Lappé challenges Grist’s coverage of GMOs as naive
If you’ve been reading the running commentary over at Grist for the past six months, journalist Nathanael Johnson has been opining about ...
Panama to use GM mosquitoes to battle deadly dengue
Two weeks ago, Panama declared a dengue outbreak, that up to that point, had affected more than 3,100 people and killed ...
U.S. agriculture can change the GMO conversation
Despite the head start biotechnology opponents have, there’s still plenty of opportunity for farmers, ranchers and the biotechnology industry to ...
An example of how much pesticides have changed
The pesticides that farmers use to protect their crops have changed a great deal over the last few decades. While ...
