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.
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 ...
EU-US trade talks represent opportunity to change minds on GM
"There will be plenty of observers of the forthcoming EU/USA trade talks who will speculate as to the outcome with ...
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 ...
RNAi tool could play role in next stage of GMO crop development
Sometime between now and the end of the decade Monsanto plans to launch a new corn rootworm 3 trait that ...
Court rebukes EU Commission over GMO approval delay
The European Commission was to blame for lengthy delays to the EU cultivation approval process for a type of genetically ...
Righteous condemnation of ‘anti-science’ bias won’t change minds of GMO critics
The ABC recently reported that 400 people in the Philippines trampled vitamin-enriched “golden rice” trial crops because of fears to human health ...
Anti-GMOers in Hawaii rely on steady diet of vicious scare mongering
The Hawaii GMO Justice Coalition is an interesting Facebook page full of the A’ole GMO websites, scare mongering memes, Evict ...
Organic agriculture cannot feed the world
We’ve written before that, despite organic activists’ claims to the contrary, conventional agriculture (a.k.a. non-organic) is the only way to ...
Governor wades into hawaii pesticide debate as kauai poised to take action
Gov. Neil Abercrombie is trying to cool the heated debate over GMOs and pesticides on Kauai by promising that the state will ...
Peddlers of disinformation shape GMO discourse
Influentials are the information brokers that have major media platforms and big receptive audiences. For example, on the GMO issue, ...
A genetic solution to canola crop losses
The "green seed problem" is a long-standing issue that causes millions of dollars annually in canola crop losses for Canada. Canola is ...
New Scientist: GM insects are a safe and effective tool
Opponents of genetic modification are up in arms again, this time over the proposed release of GM flies in Spain ...
ETC Group, Canadian anti-GMO NGO, blasts agri business ‘cosy cartel’
The increasing consolidation of global agribusiness is leaving the world's food production in the hands of a corporate "cartel", warns a new ...
What’s wrong with Jeremy Seifert’s “GMO OMG”
I recently watched “OMG GMO,” Jeremy Seifert’s aggressively uninformed “documentary” about the corporate duplicity and governmental callousness that he says ...
India: The poor need GM crops
The minister for environment and forests, Jayanthi Natarajan, recently put on hold the field trials of a few genetically modified (GM) ...
