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.
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 ...
Scientists shred study that says genetically modified food makes pigs sick
The following is an excerpt. A new study that links genetically modified (GM) foods to stomach inflammation in pigs, is misleading and ...
From ‘I smell a rat’ to ‘when pigs fly’, bad science makes its rounds
The following is an excerpt. From ‘I smell a rat‘ to ‘when pigs fly’, bad science has been making the ...
Five insects evolve resistance to engineered seeds, study says
The following is an excerpt. Five of 13 major crop pests have evolved resistance to corn and cotton genetically engineered ...
Maine Legislature easily passes GMO food labeling bill
The following is an excerpt. The state’s Senate unanimously approved a similar version of the bill on Wednesday, after House ...
A modest proposal about how to do GMO food labeling right
The following is an excerpt. Should food with ingredients from genetically engineered crops - "GMOs" - be labeled? Many argue ...
As health fears ebb, Africa looks at easing GM crop bans
The following is an excerpt. African countries keen to improve crop yields, reduce hunger and protect themselves from climate change ...
Pollan and Bittman, the Morano and Milloy of GMO anti-science
The following is an excerpt. Why do food writers think they are competent to evaluate the scientific literature? I know ...
Where food comes from: Review of DC biotech crop forum
The following is an excerpt. Though likely unbeknownst to many, much of the food sold in grocery stores today has ...
The collateral damage of tripe
The following is an excerpt. The latest attack on science comes from a report from renowned anti-GM activist Judy Carman ...
Richard Dawkins talks about GMO crops
The following is an excerpt. Thirteen years ago, Richard Dawkins, noted secularist, author and evolutionary biologist, wrote an open letter to Prince Charles, ...
Panama expects benefits from world’s first GM salmon
The following is an excerpt. Panama's researchers have played a key role in creating a rapidly growing salmon that may ...
British Science Minister: Europe must back GM or just be an old-tech museum
The following is an excerpt. Britain is urging the European Union to ease restrictions on genetically modified crops and other ...
Biotech crops vs. pests: The first billion acres
The following is an excerpt. Since 1996, farmers worldwide have planted more than a billion acres (400 million hectares) of ...
Ukraine to grow GM feed crops
The following is an excerpt. Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy is to start a pilot project producing forage crops using ...
Maple Leaf Foods CEO: ‘A global food strategy must meet the needs of the many, not just the affluent few’
The following is an excerpt. Blanket opposition to genetically modified crops is “a morally unacceptable position to take on the basis ...
GM Label fatigue
The following is an excerpt. Sen. Barbara Boxer says she is co-sponsoring the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act in part ...
GMO pigs study – more junk science
The following is an excerpt. When I saw on Twitter that a ‘major new peer-reviewed study’ was about to reveal ...
Do liberals oppose genetically modified organisms more than conservatives?
The following is an excerpt. There has been recent talk about GMOs and political orientation recently. Keith Kloor has pointers to the ...
Ireland: blight-resistant GM potato study to begin second phase
The following is an excerpt. Teagasc hopes to begin planting out more than 5,000 potato plants in the next two weeks, ...
Genetically modified wheat: No answers yet, federal investigators say
The following is an excerpt. If federal agriculture investigators are getting close to figuring out how genetically-modified wheat popped up ...
Target hops on the GMO-free bandwagon with “Simply Balanced”
The following is an excerpt. Earlier this month when I did my natural and organic coupon roundup, I included a ...
Trial lawyers seize GMO (genetically modified opportunity)
The following is an excerpt. Last week, a farmer in Oregon claimed that he found genetically modified wheat in his field that ...
Uganda: Academics, activists clash over GMO bill
The following is an excerpt. After years of debate and preparation, Canadian-based Ugandan columnist Opiyo Oloya has asked Parliament to ...
It’s past time for world to embrace biotechnology
The following is an edited excerpt. Convincing Americans about the advantages of biotechnology never has been the main issue. The ...
The calm of the genetically modified storm?
The following is an excerpt. As the world approaches a population of nine billion by 2050, GM crops can play ...
Wheat trading partners react to GM wheat announcement
The following is an excerpt. On May 29, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Plant and Health Inspection Service announced preliminary ...
