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.
Creator of Golden Rice weighs in on the continuing debate
(Summary) Ingo Potrykus, chairman of the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board and former professor of plant sciences at the Swiss Federal ...
Mark Lynas: It’s bad science, but why GMO labels may be inevitable
"In just about three weeks from now, on November 5, Washington State will likely pass a ballot initiative to label ...
Why GMO labeling won’t increase food prices
Next month, voters in Washington will decide whether their state will be the first in the nation to require labeling ...
Mark Bittman: More options for “solving” world hunger than biotechnology
"It’s been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy spoke of ending world hunger, yet on the eve of World ...
GMO debate distracting us from more effective food security interventions
While donors may be quickly seduced by talk of "easy," high-tech solutions to hunger, such as genetic engineering, there may ...
Ontario nixes calls for added GM regulations
The Ontario government has rejected a call from two farmers asking the province to apply tough environmental assessment legislation on ...
In Washington’s GMO labeling campaigns, most money from out of state
For a clear picture of how Washington voters are the target of a national food fight over genetically modified ingredients, ...
Does glyphosate used with herbicide resistant GM crops lead to chemical addiction?
To understand the environmental effects of GMOs, I started by looking at plants genetically modified to be insect-resistant — and concluded that ...
Flood-resistant rice to be developed in the Philippines
Plant breeders are starting to develop flood tolerant rice potentially using genes “COP1” and “Kidari” that can turn out to ...
Ecoterrorism in the Philippines funded by Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
[The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation] financially supports Philippine activist group MASIPAG and supposedly addresses the effects of the Green ...
Retired Kauai exec says Bill 2491 exaggerates GMO health concerns
The following open letter was written by E. Alan Kennett, an executive for 20 years in the sugar industry on ...
Tasmania: Poppy growers may consider legal action if GMO ban is not lifted
The Government's moratorium on genetically modified crops expires next year. Yesterday, more than 100 protesters marched through Hobart, demanding the ...
Canada: Monsanto to begin testing new GM beans
New varieties of genetically modified soy beans are being grown and tested in Essex County. Monsanto, a well-known agricultural biotechnology ...
Low yields could force East Africa to adopt GM crops
In spite of ongoing campaigns against growing genetically modified crops in East Africa, the effects of climate change, pests and diseases ...
No relationship between GMOs and pediatric cancer rates
"There’s a post being highlighted by anti-GMO activists on Twitter that claims that cancer is now the leading cause of ...
Vietnam: GM crops need legal framework for growth
The director of the Viet Nam Institute of Agriculture Genetics, Dr Le Dinh Luong, has said Viet Nam must develop ...
Greenpeace opposition to Golden Rice “costing thousands of lives”
Patrick Moore, the former president of the original Greenpeace Foundation, along with his brother Michael, a former Greenpeace activist, "despair ...
GM yeast turns crop wastes into liquid fuel
US researchers have used genetically modified yeast to enhance the production of biofuels from waste materials. The new method solves ...
Summary of editorial reactions to I-522
With less than a month out, Washington State Initiative 522 continues to garner more and more attention of state voters ...
Science panel says GMO labeling would cost — but how much remains unknown
Labeling genetically engineered foods would come at a cost, but it’s impossible to say how high it will be, says ...
Greenpeace continues to resort to ecoterrorism and publicity stunts
On August 8th, Greenpeace activists descended on a test plot of Golden Rice in the Philippines and ripped up the ...
Environmental groups frustrated by Kauai mayor’s recommendation to defer Bill 2491
Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr.’s recommendation that the Kauai County Council defer Bill 2491 for two months stirred up a wide ...
Monsanto protesters toss money off balcony in Congressional offices
BuzzFeed Politics reported that Capitol Police took the cash, believed to be around $500, into evidence. Three people were also "taken ...
Why Northeast Ohio farmers disagree about the latest farm technology
On Saturday, protestors in Akron, Cleveland, and hundreds of cities worldwide will take part in the second annual March Against ...
Biotechnology at the center of this year’s World Food Prize symposium
It is an intriguing question, and some potential answers may readily come to mind: Discovering the New World; going to ...
The battle lines on food labeling
Washington state voters look ready to deliver the country’s first mandatory GMO labeling law with no strings attached early next ...
Wheat industry pushes for GM traits
U.S. farmers need new and better varieties of wheat with genetically engineered traits, industry representatives say. At stake, they say, ...
