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.
Modified tomatoes mimic actions of good cholesterol
The following is an edited excerpt. UCLA researchers have genetically engineered tomatoes to produce a peptide that mimics the actions ...
When newspapers con the public
The following is an edited excerpt. Now let’s turn to the Guardian, and this video on genetically modified crops it recently posted on ...
Letters: Knowing what’s in the food we eat
Two letters to the editor about the debate over GM-labeling are excerpted below. On the pro-labeling side: Andrew Kimbrell, Executive DirectorCenter for ...
Organic always good, GMO always bad?
The following is an excerpt. There has been a lot of controversy about how organic foods are so much better ...
A month without Monsanto?
The following is an edited excerpt. April Dávila, a writer for Yes! magazine, tired to see if she could go one month “without consuming any ...
The whole truth about Whole Foods
The following is an excerpt. Whole Foods Market (WFM) is being praised in the media for announcing that it will ...
Ghana: Farmers receive education on modern biotechnology
Farmers noted that over the years several interventions of modern technology in increasing production were brought to their doorsteps yet ...
Organic farmers depend on decidedly inorganic crops
The following is an excerpt. Fertilizer that comes from cows or other animals does not really originate with them. Manure from cows ...
Do you know what your child is eating?
The following is an excerpt. It is extraordinarily hard to avoid GMOs inside of the U.S. since companies aren't required ...
Did Whole Foods go too far on GMO-labeling?
The following is an edited excerpt. For most consumers in America, their take on Whole Foods GMO-labeling initiative likely rests ...
Organic baby food: More expensive, but may not be more nutritious
The following is an edited excerpt. Parents go organic for a variety of reasons, including environmental concerns and a desire ...
Researchers identify gene that allows corn to grow in poor conditions
The following is an edited excerpt. Approximately 30 percent of the world’s total land is too acidic to support crop ...
Hawaii GMO-label bill faulty, state says
The following is an edited excerpt. The attorney general is cautioning state senators that a House bill requiring genetically modified ...
Why Whole Foods decided to label genetically modified foods
The following is an edited excerpt. This month, Whole Foods became the first retailer in the country to announce that ...
This protein could change biotech forever
The following is an edited excerpt. A tiny molecular machine used by bacteria to kill attacking viruses could change the ...
GMO labeling laws on deck in the Midwest
The following is an edited excerpt. Just south of Hermann, Mo., Swiss Meat and Sausage Co. processes 2 million pounds of meat ...
Philippines: Resistance to Golden Rice
The following is an excerpt. The Philippine Rice Institute (Philrice) has finished the field testing of golden rice in Camarines ...
Ugandans need law that bans GMOs, not promotes them
The following is an excerpt. I was compelled to write this article after learning that the government passed the National ...
GMO labeling is clever marketing
The following is an excerpt. I find it amusing that this whole GMO labeling campaign has been framed as some ...
Ireland: GM potato resists blight, not mistrust
The following is an edited excerpt. Ewen Mullins is a plant scientist whose work on a genetically modified potato inherently ...
GM labeling and Jewish law
The following is an excerpt. Even though over 50% of Americans believe GMOs to be potentially unsafe and a striking ...
Arrival of GM seeds in consumer catalogs heightens controversy
The following is an edited excerpt. Michael Kilpatrick thought he had found a neat new plant to enhance the gardens ...
China: Organic food has huge investment potential
The following is an edited excerpt. Affluent Chinese, alarmed by a slew of food safety problems in recent years, are ...
Why label genetically engineered food?
The following is an edited excerpt. Any private company has the right to require its suppliers to meet labeling standards ...
A moral weight for the agricultural tool of biotechnology
The following is an edited excerpt. As Catholic cardinals selected Pope Francis in Rome on Wednesday, we watched an ancient ...
Anti-GM activism: Why the bastards never quit
The following is an edited excerpt. Over three trillion servings of foods with GE ingredients have been consumed, and in ...
Initiative 522: A test of what you believe about genetically modified foods
The following is an edited excerpt. [The GMO] label is a warning. It is saying, in effect, “Before you buy ...
