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.
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 ...
Seed giants’ initiatives to preserve monopoly on global food
The following is an edited excerpt. A report released yesterday by the non-profit ETC Group claims that six companies are ...
GM milk cures diarrhea, could save millions of kids annually
The following is an edited excerpt. Transgenic goats' milk modified to produce higher levels of the human antimicrobial protein lysozyme ...
GM crops defended
The following is an edited excerpt. Professor Wayne Parrott says those who oppose crop-biotechnology based on anti-science views should spend ...
Five ways the FDA has failed consumers on genetically engineered foods
The following is an edited excerpt. 1. No health safety testing Genetically engineered (GE) foods have never been safety tested ...
Hawaii: Down to Earth stores joins Whole Foods in GM labeling
The following is an excerpt. Down to Earth Organic & Natural said its five stores in Hawaii will begin requiring ...
Whole Foods didn’t have a choice in GM labeling
The following is an excerpt. "People have the right to know what is in their food," Whole Foods Market founder ...
Indian Agriculture Minister favors strict GM field safety trials
The following is an excerpt. NEW DELHI: Agriculture Minister SharadPawar today said that agriculture scientists should be allowed to conduct field trials ...
Demolishing the myth that Monsanto drove Indian farmers to suicide
The following is an edited excerpt. Last Friday, Vandana Shiva, Indian feminist, activist, and thinker and "author of many books" said: ...
Enviropig improved: scientists develop new line of transgenic pigs
The following is an excerpt. CANADA - A research team at the University of Guelph has developed a new line ...
The double standard for Golden Rice
The following is an edited excerpt. When I saw that NPR was doing a story on Golden Rice I was ...
Whole Foods’ business case for GMO labeling
The following is an edited excerpt. Whole Foods pleased many of its shoppers, and most of its critics, when it ...
You wanted GMO food labels? The marketplace is listening
The following is an edited excerpt. It’s a victory for the consumers who worry about genetically engineered foods that Whole ...
The real seeds of deception
The following is an edited excerpt. In October, Dan Charles, NPR’s food and agriculture correspondent, wrote an excellent piece headlined: ...
Resurrecting a forest
The following is an edited excerpt. For the cover story in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic, I explore an ...
Nine things you should know about GMOs
The following is an excerpt. By 2018, you’ll know exactly whether or not your favorite products at Whole Foods have ...
Mark Lynas: truth, treachery and GM food
The following is an excerpt. Mark Lynas spent years destroying genetically modified crops in the name of the environment. Now ...
In defense of crop patents
The following is an excerpt. Patents involving plants are often portrayed as a seriously negative phenomenon. In fact, they play an important ...
Whole Foods to label all genetically modified products by 2018
The following is an excerpt. Whole Foods Market, the supermarket chain known for its organic inventory, said Friday that it ...
Agricultural policies have a huge impact on nutrition
The following is an edited excerpt. India’s efforts to fight malnutrition may not bear fruit unless there is greater focus ...
Japan, seeking non-GM crops, will buy soybeans from Ukraine
The following is an edited excerpt. Japan’s Sojitz Corp. said it will import Ukrainian soybeans for the first time as ...
Anti-GM ad uses Seralini study to try to swing WA vote
The following is an edited excerpt. The TV advertisement linking genetically modified crops to tumours in rats is encouraging people ...
Editorial: Pass the food labeling bill
The following is an edited excerpt. Harm from consuming genetically modified foods is well down our list of human health ...
Top 5 lies about GM crops
The following is an excerpt. The Institute for Responsible Technology, an organization opposed to crop biotechnology, has published a list of reasons ...
Nigeria: Biotech will aid food security, alleviate poverty
The following is an excerpt. Application of biotechnology techniques in animal agriculture will improve livestock industry to adequately support food ...
Australia: Head of top agriculture forecasting body condemns GM bans
The following is an excerpt. Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences executive director Paul Morris said the ...
