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.
The search for Monsanto’s rogue GM wheat
The following is an edited excerpt. On May 29 the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that a ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
World Food Prize goes for work on biotech crops
The following is an edited excerpt. As governments, food aid organizations and other groups are thinking big in their efforts ...
EU at a GE crossroads
The following is an edited excerpt. The restrictive stance of the European Union on genetically modified organisms (GMO) has frustrated ...
India: Field trials cleared for GM rice, wheat, maize, and other crops
The following is an edited excerpt. It's the future of food. The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, under the environment ministry, ...
Pig feeding study shows how not to use statistics
The following is an edited excerpt. In the latest issue of Journal of Organic Production Systems, a long-term toxicology study ...
Rogue GE wheat is growing in 127 countries! Should consumers be concerned?
The following is an edited excerpt. After the “crisis” of glyphosate tolerant wheat being found in an Oregon field, I ...
CNN features outrageous anti-GE views
The following is an edited excerpt. The latest frightful example of GE fear-mongering aired Monday on CNN. It was a ...
Target to remove genetically engineered ingredients from major food brand
The following is an edited excerpt. Super store giant, Target, has announced they will be adding a new brand to ...
Wheat industry will survive Oregon’s GE strain
The following is an edited excerpt. After news broke that a genetically engineered strain of wheat had been found in ...
Could genetic engineering make renewable fuel cheaper?
The following is an edited excerpt. Wood and straw are among the waste products our society produces in the greatest ...
When the anti-GE science sucks, you can have it both ways
The following is an edited excerpt. Dear Howard Vleiger, which one is correct? You have stood by your (probably bogus) ...
Luddites are losing the battle over GM crops
The following is an edited excerpt. Most speech writers would have advised a more cautious line of attack. Most spin ...
Supreme Court ruling won’t impact agribusiness research of GE foods, law prof argues
The following is an edited excerpt. A University of Iowa law professor says the U.S. Supreme Court has given new ...
Nigeria: GE foods for sale by 2015, minister says
The following is an edited excerpt. The Minister of Science and Technology, Prof Ita Ewa, said at the weekend that ...
Maine: Backers of GE labeling unthinkingly buy conspiracy-based arguments
The following is an edited excerpt. That the Maine Legislature has determined that the bottle of canola oil I buy ...
Meet Calestous Juma, Africa’s GE crop ‘optimist’
The following is an edited excerpt. When Calestous Juma was 9 years old, floods inundated his family’s village. Port Victoria ...
Malaysia: Bioengineered crops are agriculture’s green bravura
The following is an edited excerpt. Bacillus thuringiensis (or Bt) crops and food have another name. Because they are developed ...
Bad science about GE foods: It reminds me of the antivaccine movement (revisited)
The following is an edited excerpt. I never used to write much about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) before. I still ...
For science denialism, visit Food Democracy Now
The following is an editorial summary. David Tribe uses images from the "Food Democracy Now!" Facebook page to highlight the ...
Biotech wheat inevitable, industry says
The following is an excerpt. Idaho Wheat Commission Executive Director Blaine Jacobson believes commercial genetically modified wheat in the U.S ...
Prime Minister Cameron wants GM crops grown in Britain
The following is an edited excerpt. David Cameron has given the clearest signal yet that the government wants to see ...
Chipotle becomes first US restaurant chain to voluntarily label GE foods
The following is an edited excerpt. The recent decision by Whole Foods Market to label all genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) sold ...
Resistance to biotech is robbing consumers of affordable food
The following is an edited excerpt. When a farmer discovered biotech wheat on a remote field in eastern Oregon in ...
Careless farming could cost us benefits of GM crops
The following is an edited excerpt. Resistance is far from futile. Agricultural pests are evolving immunity to the toxins in ...
Grist touts discredited GM pig study
The following is an excerpt. You’ll remember, I’m sure, the recent brouhaha over a French study by scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini that purported ...
