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.
Cass Sunstein: Don’t mandate labeling of genetically-altered food
The following is an edited excerpt. In the abstract, the argument for compulsory labeling seems exceedingly powerful. But there is ...
Ellen Jorgensen is dragging genetic engineering away from the scare stories
The following is an edited excerpt. Biohackers are rare -- costs have kept genetic engineering in the realm of big pharma ...
GMOs cause leukemia? Think again
The following article is an edited excerpt. The Organic Consumers Association has gleefully announced: New Study Links GMO Food To Leukemia. The ...
Is GM corn being sold at an LA farmers market?
The following is an edited excerpt. When you Google Monsanto, the website link has both the company's name and its slogan ...
Former FDA official on GMO labeling: ‘Science doesn’t always win’
The following is an edited excerpt. Whether the food industry likes it or not, when it comes to GMO labeling, ...
Latest anti-GMO conspiracy theory: GMOs are causing mass death of bees
The following is an edited excerpt. What is happening to California's bees? Are GMOs causing these deaths? I have reason ...
Germany’s state-owned news service: ‘US Government in GM industry’s pocket’
The following is an edited excerpt. US diplomats lobbied aggressively to support its genetically-modified food industries, a campaign group has ...
Ghana needs biotech intervention to improve food security
Source – Vibe Ghana By By Bertha Badu-Agyei Date – 16 May 2013 Website – vibeghana.com There is hunger on the ...
Philippines: Biotech is worth pursuing
The following is an edited excerpt. Citing the potential of biotechnology to increase agricultural productivity, Department of Science and Technology ...
Monsanto CEO: U.S. Regulatory System Is ‘Functional’
The following is an edited excerpt. The head of the world’s largest seed company brushed aside suggestions the U.S. regulatory ...
Greenpeace moves anti-GMO jihad to Mexico
The following is an edited excerpt. Corn is the most important staple of the Mexican diet. Corn tortillas of many ...
Washington: I-522 debate offers chance for education on plant science
The following is an edited excerpt. Monday’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision for Monsanto Co. plays into the hands of ...
Kenya: GMO ban has no legal basis
[SciDev.Net]Nairobi -A senior Kenyan government official has dismissed last year's ban on the import of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into ...
US State Department promotes GE crops overseas; activists howl
The following is an edited excerpt. If you have a feeling that genetically modified (GM) foods are being forced upon ...
Anti-biotech critics propose killing Hawaiian papaya crop
The following is an edited excerpt. Genetic engineering opponents turned out in force Tuesday before the Hawaii County Council to ...
Vermont: Legislature wants Monsanto to label its GMOs
The following is an edited excerpt. Monsanto, the often vilified agribusiness corporate giant, is back in the news. First, the ...
Himalayan sea salt promoted by activists as non-GMO has lead, arsenic, plutonium and more
The following is an edited excerpt. Yesterday I wrote about a website I found HERE and could not believe my eyes. It ...
Monsanto: More Saint than Sinner
The following is an edited excerpt. Monsanto is the Devil Incarnate, a ruthless corporation hell bent upon forcing their unnatural ...
Union of Concerned Scientists embraces anti-science views on crop biotech
The following is an edited excerpt. Let me begin by saying I love the Union of Concerned Scientists. They’ve been ...
Bill Gates: Technology, including GE, key to reducing world poverty
The following is an edited excerpt. Nothing improves an economy as efficiently as agriculture, the Microsoft founder said. Investing in ...
The work of a scientist on GM crops in Africa
The following is an edited excerpt. She has addressed the world’s leaders at the UN. She has sat in the ...
Huh? Anti-biotech group confirms salt is definitely not a GMO
The following is an edited excerpt. Here's how we know that science is dead in the anti-GMO movement. The Non-GMO ...
Food activists claim pro-biotech forces promoting genocide
The following is an edited excerpt. While it is true regarding Reagan's apparent approval of genocide in Guatemala, the same ...
Anti-biotech activist Jeffrey Smith peddles pseudo-science
The following is an edited excerpt. When the definitive history of the GMO debate is written, Jeffrey Smith is going ...
Farmers who try biotech seeds come back for more
The following is an edited excerpt. Last year, too dry. This year, too wet. Spring planting is never perfect in ...
Sustainability bonus: Boll worm resistant cotton eliminates pesticide use
The following is an edited excerpt. Thanks to the genetic trait in our cotton that makes it resistant to the ...
Grist on wrong side of science in embarrassing anti-biotech jihad
The following is an edited excerpt. Thirty years ago, scientists figured out how to directly modify the genes in our ...
