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.
Resolution in Kauai anti-GMO bill calls for ‘sketchy’ GMO safety assessment
A resolution in Kauai’s Bill 2491--which heavily restricts the use of GM crops and pesticides--calls for a “neutral facilitator” to convene ...
Banana apocalypse? GM one of few options to save threatened cavendish
Scientists are experimenting with genetic modifications to protect Cavendish bananas from a variant of the banana wilt fungus. If the fungus jumps ...
Why Whole Foods dropped Chobani yogurt? It’s about corporate profits, not GMOs
Why did the grocery giant Whole Foods drop Chobani Greek-style yogurt? The reason suggested by the Wall Street Journal: Whole Foods wants to ...
Evidence to support Don Huber’s claim of hidden glyphosate-GMO dangers still missing
It’s been almost three years since retired Purdue University Professor Don Huber sent an alarming letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom ...
Kaua’i mayor reports on efforts to begin implementation of anti-GMO bill
For the first time since signing a controversial anti-GMO bill into law last month, Kaua'i County Mayor Bernard Carvalho reported ...
Block party: Are activists thwarting GMO innovation?
Is there evidence that groups fighting against genetically modified food have thwarted good technologies that would otherwise make agriculture more ...
Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse calls campaign against GM crops ‘anti-science’ and ‘irresponsible’
Nobel Laureate cell biologist Sir Paul Nurse has termed the campaign against GM foods "irresponsible,” calling the whole debate against ...
Organic labeling: Is there a place for GM foods?
For more than a decade, organic farmers, ranchers and food processors have been subject to rigorous annual inspections to ensure ...
Americans mildly concerned about GM foods, but confused as to what they are
Less than 10% of adults were “very” or “extremely” concerned about genetically modified ingredients when market research company NPD Group last ...
Grocery Manufacturer’s Association seeks ‘natural’ label for GMOs
The trade organization representing the nation’s largest food and beverage companies wants permission to label as “natural” products that contain ...
Activist researcher who destroyed GM potoatoes reinstated after no violence pledge
A researcher who was fired by Leuven University because she took part in protests against genetically modified crops has been ...
Whole Foods drops Chobani Greek-style yogurt in anti GMO effort
Whole Foods says that as of early next year, its stores will no longer stock Chobani, a Greek yogurt brand ...
Maine governor says he will sign GMO labeling bill
Maine Governor Paul LePage has confirmed that he will sign a bill to require food producers to label products that ...
Field trials of GM oranges show promise in the fight against citrus-greening
Field trials of oranges genetically modified to contain a gene found in spinach are showing promise in resisting citrus greening—a ...
EU Commission renews bid to ban food from cloned animals
The European Commission again proposed a ban on food and products from cloned animals, two years after rejecting a similar ...
Hartford Courant editorial slams GMO labeling bill
The GMO labeling bill recently signed by Connecticut’s governor is an unnecessary, feel-good measure that has little to do with ...
Monsanto has no influence on research by its fellowship recipients
Anti-GMO activists claim that research funded by Monsanto is biased, but no one has ever asked a Monsanto-funded researcher what ...
With GMO ban in place in Hawaii County, and citrus greening disease threatening, what does future hold
A few days ago, we learned that the Florida citrus industry, which has lost more than a million acres to ...
US urges timely action by China on GM corn approvals
At least three shipments of corn have been rejected by Chinese officials, on the grounds that they contain an unapproved ...
Fast growing, pest resistant GE poplar tree could revolutonize paper industry
Scientists at Oregon State University have developed a pest-resistant, faster-growing poplar tree that could be “especially useful in the paper ...
GM crop field trials cleared in India despite government official’s reservations
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan of Maharashtra has cleared “no objection certificates” for confined field trials of several genetically modified crops, ...
GM technology an aid in the ‘long, hard fight’ against Texas boll weevil
The boll weevil eradication program in Texas, combined with the use of genetically modified cotton varieties, has resulted in a ...
Whole Foods GMO labeling requirements could alienate food suppliers
With its voluntary GMO-labeling program that will be introduced in full by 2018, Whole Foods “will no doubt bolster its ...
Are GM seed companies engaging in ‘cigarette science’?
Anti-GMO activists often like to accuse the biotech industry of conspiring a “cover up” akin to the tobacco industry’s cover-up ...
Fascinating science behind development of Bt eggplant
Bt eggplant, which is genetically modified to produce an insecticidal protein, is safe to consume and can protect eggplant from ...
Fear of pesticides and GMOs may drive out Kauai’s biotech industry
Kauai’s GM seed industry, which plays a “significant” role in Kauai’s economy, has been facing obstacles recently—namely the fear of ...
With GM approval in Russia on the horizon, activist scientists call for 10 year moratorium
In an attempt to block the introduction of GM crops in Russian, an anti-GMO activist scientist organization is calling for ...
