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.
Scientists try to reverse-engineer the tomato
The following is an edited excerpt. The modern supermarket tomato became damaged goods as part of the attempt to keep ...
Use genetically modified crops on refuges?
The following is an excerpt. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold five public meetings around the South in ...
Supermarkets must stop scaremongering, say scientists
The following is an excerpt. Supermarkets are pandering to misplaced consumer fears about the health risks of widely used food ingredients ...
Why GMO supporters should embrace labels
The following is an excerpt. Keith Kloor has graciously given me the opportunity to guest post here again. So let ...
Food labeling 101: GMO, organic, and other common grocery labels decoded
The following is an excerpt. Navigating the food labels at the grocery store these days can feel like reading through ...
Bizarre yet beneficial uses of modern biotech
The following is an excerpt. After learning about human genetic engineering, many readers might want to find out about some examples ...
Keith Kloor stumbles into nest of questionable studies and reporting on GMOs
The following is an excerpt. This morning, the Discover blogger Keith Kloor filed a noisy objection to a Reuters story on a questionable paper alleging harmful effects from Roundup, the trade ...
Condemning Monsanto with bad science is dumb
The following is an excerpt. Did you see the latest indictment of Monsanto making the rounds? It's a "peer-reviewed" paper ...
Genetic engineering policy needs modification
The following is an excerpt. Writing in the Cell Press journal Trends in Plant Science, scientists from Spain and the United ...
Clive James: The go-to source for biotechnology crop data
The following is an excerpt. There’s only one place to find comprehensive global data on biotech crops, and it’s not ...
Give consumers a choice and label genetically modified foods
The following is an excerpt. At first we were skeptical about requiring the labeling of genetically modified food in Maine, ...
Uruguay scientists genetically modify sheeps to glow in the dark
The following is an excerpt. Scientists in Uruguay modified the genes of sheep using the fluorescent protein from an Aequarea ...
U.S. GMO food labeling drive has biotech industry biting back
The following is an excerpt. New efforts to force labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops, including a bill ...
Scientists design ‘health and safety’ cow with no horns
The following is an excerpt. Researchers are using gene-editing techniques to insert a DNA patch into the genome of Holsteins, ...
Europe needs genetically engineered crops, scientists say
The following is an excerpt. The European Union cannot meet its goals in agricultural policy without embracing genetically engineered crops ...
Peru says no to GMO
The following is an excerpt. Peru was the cradle of the Inca Empire, and today it’s home to many crops indigenous ...
EU GMO policy paradox: Farmers can’t plant GM corn, but it can be imported
The following is an excerpt. Europe needs to embrace genetically engineered crops or face economic decline, according to a group ...
GMO food labeling drive heats up
The following is an excerpt. New efforts to force labelling of foods made with genetically modified crops, including a bill introduced by ...
UK: The government’s backing of GM foods is short-sighted and wrong
The following is an excerpt. The call to relax the rules on GM crops from Sir Mark Walport, government chief ...
Farmers’ battles with weeds are aided, not hurt, by biotech
The following is an excerpt. When the biotechnology antagonists try to stoke fear by warning about “superweeds,” they make these ...
Video: Interview with CEO of AquaBounty
The following is an excerpt. Karl Haro von Mogel from Biology Fortified interviewed Ron Stonish, President and CEO of AquaBounty at the 2013 ...
Six reasons organic is NOT the most environmentally friendly way to farm
The following is an excerpt. Contrary to widespread consumer belief, organic farming is not the best way to farm from an environmental ...
Oh, no! GMOs are going to kill your babies and permanently change your gene expression!
The following is an edited excerpt. Heidi Stevenson amuses me. I know, I know, I’ve started a previous post with exactly ...
Should Maine require labeling for genetically modified food?
The following is an excerpt. The national debate over genetically modified food moved to the State House on Tuesday, pitting ...
Don’t label genetically modified foods
The following is an excerpt. Foods derived from crops improved through biotechnology have been subjected to more scrutiny than any ...
Genetic modification, a hot topic at Food Dialogues
The following is an excerpt. As an estimated 20,000 people descended upon Chicago for the annual BIO convention, assembling to ...
GM salmon’s global HQ – 1,500m high in the Panamanian rainforest
The following is an excerpt. The US government this week enters the final stages of its deliberationson whether to allow commercial ...
