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.
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 ...
Argentina says China approves more GM soy, corn for import
The following is an edited excerpt. Argentina's agriculture minister said on Saturday that China has approved three new strains of ...
Tests so far show commercial wheat seed GM-free, sabotage a real possibility
The following is an excerpt. Monsanto said Wednesday that broad testing of commercial wheat seeds in Oregon and Washington state ...
Massachusetts public hearing set on three GMO labeling bills
The following is an excerpt. A hearing has been scheduled to allow the public to offer testimony on three bills ...
GE wheat: Pulitzer Prize winner gets things wrong on the Colbert Report
The following is an edited excerpt. Near the beginning of an interview about GE wheat, Colbert asks (humorously) how the ...
Italian researchers explore how GE could improve the taste of wine
The following is an edited excerpt. A gene expression study of grapevine berries grown in different Italian vineyards has highlighted ...
Kickstarter-funded glowing plant sparks debate
The following is an edited excerpt. Among the many projects attracting crowd-sourced funding on the Kickstarter website this week are ...
Recommended reading on GE foods for skeptics
The following is an edited excerpt. Late June in 2009, I went to a talk at the Long Now Foundation ...
Will genetically engineered animals bring home the bacon?
The following is an edited excerpt. The critics of biotechnology who predicted the eventual emergence of a fearsome Dr. Frankenstein's ...
GE cotton improves diet quality for small-scale farmers in India
The following is an edited excerpt. Insect-resistant genetically modified (GM) cotton has significantly improved calorie consumption and dietary quality among ...
Could the non-GMO label threat the organic label?
The following is an edited excerpt. As the Non-GMO Project logo appears on more and more groÂcery shelves, some memÂbers ...
Connecticut will label GE foods if you do too
The following is an edited excerpt. The final version of the Connecticut bill includes quite a crucial catch: The labeling ...
UK: Kraft’s GE wheat label is a mistake
The following is an edited excerpt. The case of the labels warning of genetically modified wheat found on Kraft Mac ...
Biotech should be central to food security
The following is an edited excerpt. Scientists worldwide believe that genetic engineering should play a central role in meeting the ...
Monsanto says rogue wheat in Oregon may be sabotage
The following is an edited excerpt. Monsanto said experimental wheat engineered to survive Roundup weedkiller may have gotten into an ...
Keith Kloor makes a beat out of policing frightful coverage of GE foods
The following is an edited excerpt. The media have stoked irrational distrust of science in many fields over the years, ...
In wake of Oregon wheat controversy, US News hosts debate on GE foods
The following is an edited excerpt. GE wheat that had not been approved for public consumption was recently found in ...
Monsanto gives up fight for GM plants in Europe
The following is an edited excerpt. The world's largest producer of seeds, Monsanto, has apparently given up on attempts to ...
New York: GE labeling bill goes down in committee
The following is an edited excerpt. A bill introduced into the New York Assembly that would have required the labeling ...
