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.
Green biotechnology: Are Germans changing their minds?
The young generation in Germany is more positive-minded about genetic engineering in general and plant biotechnology in particular than the total population. In a representative survey of ...
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 ...
Could labeling GMOs do harm?
It's hard to appreciate scientific facts. Throw emotion and/or politics into the debate, and science is not going to win. This ...
Naked Juice to verify non-GMOs under “All Natural” settlement
LOS ANGELES—Naked Juice Co. has agreed to test its ingredients in order to verify they do not contain genetically modified ...
Proponents of food biotechnology are still talking about Golden Rice? Sigh.
Yes, they are still talking about Golden Rice, as witnessed by the article, "Golden Rice: A Lifesaver?" in the New York ...
“Arrogant” GMO promoter Professor Bruce Chassy embarasses himself at major Food Scientist’s Institute
The GMO debate has gone main stream and is becoming a very black and white issue. Promoters of genetically modified ...
Trashing rice, killing children
Earlier this month, 400 protestors destroyed a field trial of genetically modified Golden Rice in the Philippines. Aided by well-meaning ...
Washington State University ‘very close’ on celiac-safe wheat, herbicide-tolerant barley
Washington State University researcher Diter von Wettstein is pursuing two ventures that could boost markets for wheat and barley. Von ...
Illinois: GMO corn failing to protect fields from pest damage
Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a ...
Traditional farming a better solution for African countries
Given the British government's approach to protecting the environment by trying to sell forests, culling badgers, and cutting environmental protection, the ...
Agricultural economist Alexander J. Stein addresses concerns about Golden Rice
International Food Policy Research Institute economist Alexander J. Stein wrote a response on her personal blog to points raised by ...
When a genetic solution saved the French wine industry
The mid to late 1800s was a very difficult time for the European wine grape industry. New pests associated with ...
Oregon’s GM wheat: Still no answer, records show concern over export markets
Four months after the discovery of genetically engineered wheat sent a shudder through one of Oregon's most significant international markets, ...
Restoring tomato flavor: More complicated than finding that perfect taste
Tomatoes are the #1-selling fruit or vegetable in the world today. Yet consumers complain about blandness of supermarket tomatoes and ...
Refusal to embrace GM crops is hurting Indian farmers
India has enjoyed successes with genetic engineering in agriculture, but its relationship with this environmentally friendly, wealth-enhancing technology may be ...
India’s Minister of Agriculture: Farmers prefer growing GM crops
NEW DELHI: Farmers tend to prefer growing genetically modified crops as they give a higher yield, are more disease resistant and provide ...
Hawaiian officials introduce additional GMO bills
Hawaii Island’s food fight is about to get even more messy. After sitting on the sidelines during the last three ...
Agroecology, conventional breeding superior to GMOs
My last post discussed the success of public sector scientists who discovered and developed genes in soybean, using conventional breeding, that confer ...
Science and GMOs are not the bad guys here
Blogger Beth Hoffman, who is like me a Forbes contributor, tells us in a garbled polemic against genetically modified (GM) foods that, ...
Syngenta to take a continent to court to upend pesticide ban
Syngenta is preparing to spray its lawyerly might all over Europe in a bid to be allowed to keep killing ...
Journal article claiming GMOs might pass “genetic benefits” to weeds challenged
It is well accepted observation that when the pseudoscience or anti-science crowd runs out of supporting evidence (usually when it’s ...
Is it anti-science to be anti-GMOs?
“The science is quite clear: crop improvement by the modern molecular techniques of biotechnology is safe.” So asserts the consensus statement on ...
Why genetically modifying food is a bad idea
Recently the debate over genetically modified (GMO) foods has heated up again. In just the past few weeks, articles about ...
Real threat to food security is ginned-up panic over GMOs
There has been a lot of commotion about GMO crops in the press this summer. It amazes me that there ...
Tomatoes ripe for improvement
Science is trying to build a better supermarket tomato. At a laboratory here at the University of Florida’s Institute for Plant ...
Mark Lynas on Philippines travesty: True story about who destroyed Golden Rice GM rice crop
Did you hear that a group of 400 angry farmers attacked and destroyed a field trial of genetically modified rice in the ...
Battling India’s “Monsanto Protection Act,” farmers demand end to GMO
On August 8, thousands of farmers and activists from across 20 Indian states demonstrated in New Delhi against the Biotechnology ...
