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.
Why GMO science may be rejected
You’d be forgiven for thinking science is under attack. Climate science has been challenged by deniers and sceptics, vaccination rates ...
Oregon moves to bar counties from blocking GMOS
Environmental groups and local food activists are livid that a provision they believe would allow more genetically modified organisms to ...
All GM foods are not created equal
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe is a podcast that I enjoy every week. This week, the panel discussed the ...
Tanzania farmers should have the freedom to choose to embrace technology
Tanzania farmers, whose knowledge on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is very limited, should not be forced to embrace it, but ...
Angola succeeds in application of biotechnology in agriculture
Angola is recording significant progress in actions related to the application of plant biotechnology in the agricultural sector, in the ...
Philippines: GMO research has support
One of the country’s leading scientist-educators recently lauded the strong support given by the academic and science communities to researches on agricultural ...
Despite continuing opposition, Monsanto will not stop opposing GMO labeling efforts
Two decades after Robert T. Fraley pioneered Monsanto’s first genetically engineered crops, the public debate about the technology still rages ...
Commentary: Biotechnology could encourage outside investment into Africa
Knowledge about genetically modified organisms or genetically engineered crops is extremely small by African farmers, but their acceptance of GMOs ...
Biotechnology continues to change the face of Canada’s canola industry
Maurice Delage says he only needs to look at his canola crop for proof of how biotechnology has helped his ...
In GMO ads, both sides make mostly false claims about I-522 costs
Dueling TV ads now airing about Initiative 522 — the statewide ballot measure to require labeling of some genetically engineered ...
Video: The evolution of biotechnology in the Philippines
Since biotech corn was commercialized in the Philippines in late 2002, its adoption has increased consistently every year. The benefits ...
Hits and misses in Boston Review’s GMO debate
Reasoned, refereed exchanges about GMOs between opposing factions are rare. So when I saw that the Boston Review had manufactured that kind ...
The GMO debate is a distraction from larger issues like water shortages and climate change
More than 150 people gathered in the Hardin Hall auditorium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the first of the ...
Disease cutting corn yields, some speculate GM connection
ALTON, Iowa — It has come on like a tidal wave, washing across the Corn Belt from Minnesota to the ...
‘Unethical’ not to use GM crops in countries facing famine
Europe’s chief scientific adviser has claimed it is “unethical” not to use genetically modified crops in developing countries facing famine ...
Bangladesh: Court clears way for final approval of Bt eggplant
The High Court on Monday rejected the two writ petitions that challenged a government decision to release genetically modified (GM) ...
Philippines: Court invokes precautionary principle, halts Bt eggplant trials
MANILA, Philippines – The Court of Appeals on Thursday, September 26, affirmed its earlier ruling banning field trials of genetically-modified ...
Africa: GM bacteria ‘could eliminate’ sleeping sickness
Releasing tsetse flies that carry genetically modified bacteria resistant to the parasite that causes sleeping sickness could eliminate the disease ...
Huge gap between cost estimates for GMO labels
Washington state voters will decide next month on the fate of Initiative 522, which would require special labels on some ...
Kauai’s Bill 2491 watered down, but moves forward
After a marathon 13-hour meeting Friday night, a watered-down version of Bill 2491 passed out of committee. It will now ...
Russia may soon ban all products containing GMOs
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the relevant agencies to consider a possible ban on the import into Russia ...
Oregon debates whether GMOs should be legislated locally or by state
A group representing Oregon counties has asked state legislators to prohibit them from regulating genetically modified organisms. Representatives of the ...
Protestors destroy scores of GMO papaya trees in Hawaii
A family whose Kapoho papaya farm was vandalized two years ago has been struck again. Police said on Friday that ...
Syringes, gas masks and Frankenfood: Visuals of the GMO debate
The opposition to genetically modified food dates back to when the technology was first possible in the 1980s, and those ...
Washington GMO labeling initiative escalates into expensive, heated debate
Yakima Valley farmers and the groups that represent them have lined up against a state initiative that would require labels ...
No scientific evidence for Italian ban on Monsanto GM maize, says EFSA
There is ‘no specific scientific evidence’ to support an Italian ban on the genetically modified maize MON810, according the European ...
Why GMO wine grapes would be “cool”
I am 99.9% sure that there will never be commercial production of genetically engineered wine grapes ("GMO" to use the ...
