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.
Tanzania plans to grow Bt cotton by 2020
The following is an edited excerpt. Tanzania plans to start growing Bt cotton by 2020 once the Government aided research ...
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 ...
Kloor blog deconstructs crop biotech labeling debate
The following is an edited excerpt. There are two camps that favor labeling genetically modified [GM] foods: 1) The “Right ...
Organic supporters peddle fear in push for labeling
The following is an edited excerpt. Most everybody knows that GMO labelling is the pet project of the U.S. organic ...
Nigeria pushes GM food crops
The following is an edited excerpt. Nigeria hopes to use biotechnology to help feed its growing population as the country ...
Turkey suspends official who falsely reported GMO in rice, stirring scare
The following is an edited excerpt. There is no genetically modified rice that is being traded in the world and ...
Gaia “health food” blog launches new anti-biotech scare campaign
The following is an edited excerpt. I knew this day would come. I suppose it's been here for a while, ...
Activist falsely claim crop genes destroy human digestive system
The following is an edited excerpt. Labeling foods containing genetically modified ingredients will enable us to choose to avoid them ...
Anti-GMO campaigners label non-bruising apples with misleading “botox” label
The following is an edited excerpt. Americans may soon be biting into the future of apples. Pending approval by the ...
Activist distortion: New biotech crops contain Agent Orange
The following is an edited excerpt. Politicians may not always listen to the people, but USDA heard the people loud ...
Monsanto protests scheduled in 36 countries
An international protest planned for later this month against biotechnology company Monsanto is slated to span six continents and include ...
Anti-GM fears, bad science lead to false confiscation of rice in Turkey
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. The 21,000 ...
South Africa: Anti-GM activists target baby food
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. The African ...
UK: Supermarkets cash in on unfounded fears about GMOs, aspartame, MSG
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. We have ...
Mark Lynas: Time to call out the anti-GMO conspiracy theory
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. In a ...
Ten responses to “Ten reasons we don’t need GMOs”
The following is an excerpt. Find a link to the full article below. You may have run across this article “10 ...
Exposing the tyranny of the food fascists
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. Like backseat ...
Seeds of biotech resentment part 4: Distrust of science
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. After nearly ...
Montana: Food fight brewing over genetically modified ingredients
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. A new ...
Could genetic engineering save the citrus industry?
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. A pandemic ...
Genetically modified crops are overregulated
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. The overregulation ...
Brazil aims to sway China on GM soy, corn
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. Brazil, the ...
Infant formula: Baby’s first GM food
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. As You ...
Sweden: Busting the myths about genetically modified crops
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. We know ...
Video: Genetically engineered crops in wake of Proposition 37
The following is an edited summary of a half-hour video. Find a link to the full summary and video below ...
Michael Pollan: Monsanto’s influence preventing debate on GM labeling
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. From California's ...
Scientists sequence kiwifruit genome
The following is an excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. An international team ...
