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 are there pesticides and GMOs in our national wildlife refuges?
You might think that national wildlife refuges would be places where wildlife could take refuge from the environmental insanity of ...
Scientific American comes out in favor of GMOs, and I agree
Ashutosh Jogalekar, a chemist and blogger, applauds the editors of Scientific American for taking a stance on the topic of genetically modified ...
GMO foes blast Scientific American editorial decrying labeling laws
In the growing battle over GMO foods, science is being used as a weapon. GMO labeling activists are decrying an editorial ...
Ghana begins GM seeds field trials
Ghana has started the field trail of planting some Genetically Modified (GM) seeds at Nnoboam, near Konongo in the Ashanti ...
Overall GMO ban rejected by Hawaii County Council
The Hawaii County Council took its first bite out of legislation on genetically altered crops Friday, voting down an overall ...
Can GMO trees save our forests?
In late May, forest biologists, geneticists, and forestry industry officials from across the world gathered at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel ...
The Brits aim to genetically engineer their own beans
Essentially little more than navy beans covered in a tomato-based sauce, baked beans are one of the more popular foods ...
Scientists outline how to save nearly 70 percent of the world’s plant species
In 2010 the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) pledged to set aside 17 percent of the world's land as protected ...
GMO OMG: Jeremy Seifert dumbs down the debate over genetically modified organisms
Jeremy Seifert dumbs down the debate over genetically modified organisms. Insufferably certain of its own charm and a lot less ...
GM crops: African opposition is a farce, says group led by former UN secretary general
Concern in Africa over genetically modified crops has been dismissed as fear of the unknown by an environmental group chaired by Kofi Annan, ...
Heirloom tomatoes could save mankind
When I came home from the farmer’s market last week juggling two giant bags of tomatoes, my kids looked at ...
Plant mitochondria research tackles food shortages
Like many countries across the globe, Australia is facing numerous environmental challenges that have the potential to cripple production of ...
Gene expression study by Australian researchers reveals nutritional benefits of pineapple
A researcher from The University of Queensland has conducted the world's first pineapple microarray to gain a better understanding of ...
GM or organic farming: Which will sustain a growing nation?
In a place where population growth is moving incredibly fast, added pressure on farmers in India in the wake of ...
Economist Alexander J. Stein on Forbes story dissing Golden Rice
In a response on his personal blog to Beth Hoffman's pieces in Forbes, "Just Because Science Can Genetically Engineer Foods, Doesn't ...
“There is no bee crisis,” environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg says
Contrary to what you may have heard, there is no “bee-pocalypse.” There is lots of alarmist talk about colony collapse ...
UK scientists to launch GM insects as alternatives to using chemicals in fields
Thousands of GM insects developed by British scientists are set to be the first released into fields in Europe as ...
Stop saying GMOs are safe, says Greenpeace
Greenpeace today accused the Philippine government of misleading the public into thinking that field trials of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...
Anti-GMO acting troupe takes it to the streets
The work of an anti-GMO group called MoveOn, which wants to impose mandatory labeling of GMO crops on Americans, brings ...
Spain considers trial release of genetically-modified olive flies
Genetically-modified olive flies will be released in a Catalan olive grove if a field trial proposed by British biotech company ...
Despite what some GMO opponents accuse, Monsanto does not pay off columnists
Among many lovely conversations with readers at the Farm Progress Show this week, one exchange has had me thinking, ever since. He ...
Is this the start of a GM future for Irish farming?
In July 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency gave Teagasc permission to start a controversial, three-year, field-based research study of a genetically modified ...
Truth a casualty in Kauai GMO-pesticide debate
If truth is the first casualty of war, it was body-bagged a long time ago in the pitched battle being ...
Golden rice and GMOs: The best solutions to world hunger?
Earlier in the week I wrote an article about genetically engineered food, and why I thought it was a bad idea ...
What’s in a GMO label?
One might assume that defeat at the ballot box would be a real setback for a policy idea. But in ...
Have “progressive” anti-GMO activists lost their values?
Never in the history of progressive movements have so few lied to so many. That pretty much sums up the ...
Indian scientists back agriculture minister Pawar’s remarks on GM crops
Emboldened by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar's current pitch in favour of scientific field trials for transgenic crops, top agriculture scientists of the ...
