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.
Lynas is planting “seeds of change” in the GM debate
The following is an edited excerpt. Mark Lynas’s conversion from an anti-GMO crusader to a champion for science and plant ...
The idea of open-sourcing GE attracts more interest
The following is an edited excerpt. Frederick Kaufman has penned a provocative article for Slate's Future Tense column in which ...
Roseanne Barr struggles to defend outrageous anti-GE claims
The following is an edited excerpt. I examined Roseanne Barr's response to my criticism in Anti-GMO Activist Roseanne Barr Goes ...
GE foods are not the enemy
The following is an edited excerpt. “Genetic Engineering (GE)” is the new curse word, and Monsanto is the latest incarnation ...
Activists lobbying Safeway to label GE foods
Safeway announced to its shoppers in a Facebook post last night that its O Organics products, which are certified USDA ...
A new anti-GE strategy: Go negative on rational thinking
If want to see a reasoned, rational debate on GMOs in Madagascar; the first place to start is with human ...
Mark Lynas: From GMO hater to supporter
While U.S. consumers are becoming increasingly more interested in where their food comes from and what goes into it, Europeans ...
Folta: EU is throwing euros down a rat hole in quest to replicate Seralini study
The following is an edited excerpt. Last September's lumpy rat study by Seralini et al certainly whipped the wildly uncritical ...
Gates Foundation to finance biotech lab in Nigeria
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has agreed to build a standard biotechnology laboratory in Nigeria. The idea is to ...
Mystery lingers around origin of GE wheat in Oregon
When the fresh wheat samples arrived at her lab this spring, Carol Mallory-Smith, a weed scientist, didn’t know what to ...
Biotech in Hawaii: Visit to Monsanto Piilani farm on Maui
The following is an edited excerpt. I recently spent nine glorious days on the beautiful island of Maui in the ...
GE pioneer Roger Beachy: I got into biotech to reduce the use of chemical pesticides
One of the founding fathers of agricultural biotechnology, best-known for his pioneering research on virus-resistant plants, Dr Roger Beachy caught ...
Japan aims to restart buying U.S. western wheat as early as August
Japan aims to restart buying U.S. western white wheat as early as August, industry sources said, after halting imports of ...
UK: Gene discovery offers hope for weed control
The following is an edited excerpt. British scientists have discovered a gene called AmGSTF1 that could make weed killers more ...
Harvard scientist reports on Canada’s anti-science, anti-GE left
The following is an edited excerpt. While recent political trends in North America have bred legislation that reflects the irrational ...
Pakistan: Food Minister for using biotechnology to reduce food insecurity
Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Hayat Khan Bosan on Monday stressed the need to promote biotechnology in ...
Hawaiian farmers rally against GE ban
“I’m here to save my job,” the woman explained as she waved to a honking line of vehicles crawling by ...
Bangladesh: Use biotech to boost productivity
Gone are the days of conventional practices of cultivation reliant mostly on traditional knowledge handed down from generations. In Bangladesh, ...
What do the creationist & anti-GMO platforms have in common?
Creationists and the Anti-GMO crowd (hereafter referred to as anti’s) crowd share a foundational base. Creationism, or Intelligent Design (ID) ...
Risk analysis is only one element of public acceptance
The following is an edited excerpt. In his paper, "The real and perceived risks of genetically modified organisms," Helge Torgensen ...
So science might have gotten it wrong… Now what?
The following is an edited excerpt. This week I learned about an unfolding scientific debate that’s got me thinking about ...
Inside the mind of an anti-GE activist: Homeland security is working for Monsanto
When we see photographs of rats grossly deformed by massive tumors after eating genetically engineered corn laced with Roundup, it’s ...
What do the creationist & anti-GMO platforms have in common?
Creationists and the Anti-GMO crowd (hereafter referred to as anti’s) crowd share a foundational base. Creationism, or Intelligent Design (ID) ...
What do the creationist & anti-GMO platforms have in common?
Creationists and the Anti-GMO crowd (hereafter referred to as anti’s) crowd share a foundational base. Creationism, or Intelligent Design (ID) ...
British attitudes to GE crops are still divided
The following is an edited excerpt. According to a Farmers Weekly survey, a majority (61%) of farmers in the UK ...
Uganda’s first GE bananas due In 2016
The following is an edited excerpt. Banana farmers and consumers in Uganda should expect to experience the first local genetically ...
The Internet zoo weighs in on GE wheat
The following is an edited excerpt. At a supermarket in London, a student named Flo Wrightson Cross picks up a ...
