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.
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 ...
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) ...
Hawaii activists smear campaign against independent Florida scientist Kevin Folta
"When you are an academic scientist that interacts with the public there are a few that are gunning to discredit ...
No scientific debate over GM food safety
It’s no secret that people are nervous about foods made from genetically modified organisms. A July Gallup poll found that 48 percent ...
Ghana begins testing for GM cotton production
The western African country of Ghana has begun testing four genetically modified (GM) crops, including cotton, for commercial production. The ...
Auckland Council at odds with government on stricter GM rules
Auckland Council and the Government are on a collision course over rules for genetically modified crops after councillors decided to ...
Research shows success with targeted gene editing in dairy cattle
The first published research on the groundbreaking use of a modified gene-editing system to produce horn-free dairy cattle was released ...
Enough known to prove GM foods are safe, claims European Commission’s chief scientific adviser
Describing the rejection of GM foods as a “form of madness I don’t understand,” the European Commission’s chief scientific adviser, ...
Modified brinjal given go-ahead
The High Court on Monday cleared the way for the government to release the genetically modified (GM) crop – Bt ...
Genetically modified rice brings benefit to wild neighbors
Rice containing a transgenic modification that makes it resistant to a common herbicide can pass that genetic trait to weedy ...
Study finds strong preference for biofortified cassava in Eastern Kenya
As the dissemination of nutrient-rich staple food crops intensifies, nutritionists are confident that millions of people will eventually get more ...
Misgivings about how a weed killer affects the soil
ALTON, Iowa — The puny, yellow corn stalks stand like weary sentries on one boundary of Dennis Von Arb’s field ...
‘Curbs on GM crop trials have paralysed seed industry’
With uncertainty dogging trials of genetically modified crops, the Indian seed industry is in a state of limbo, Chairman of ...
New corn rootworm traits will help farmers control underground pests
Corn farmers have experienced some cases of corn-rootworm resistance to new biotech traits, but the incidents have not been widespread ...
Progress in developing drought tolerant corn
Drought in corn and soybean growing areas of the Midwestern U.S. in the summer of 2012 and again this year ...
Labeling GM foods in Washington: “Science doesn’t support I-522”
Initiative 522 on Washington’s November general election ballot — to require labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods — should be ...
