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.
Kenya issues blanket ban on GM food imports
The recent Cabinet ban on the importation of GM foods citing health risks was unfortunate. It was clear proof that ...
Organic farmers condemn scientific method
If you don't believe in miracles like that organic produce is nutritionally superior or that you can taste GMOs in ...
Scientists: Kenya’s GMO ban will cripple research, deny food to hundreds of thousands
[S]cientists are raising alarm over the blanket ban imposed on genetically modified organisms by public health minister Beth Mugo. Researchers ...
Boosting biofuels can mean less food for the poor
Original opening remarks by BEI Young Professionals member Olivette Burton. The bioethical principles of beneficence, justice, and non-malevolence were ...
Organic farmers condemn USDA biotech report
The final USDA report appears to heavily favor biotech farmers. While the report does state that farmers should show respect ...
“Natural” food label means almost nothing
GoodFood WorldNaturally, food labeling issue lives onMonterey County HeraldThe campaign against genetically engineered foods didn't disappear with California's defeat of ...
Greenpeace will keep fighting GM
Greenpeace has vowed to continue campaigning against genetically modified (GM) crops in Australia, despite backlash from the farming and scientific ...
Reaction to USDA report splits along predictable lines
It held five meetings, waited until after the election, gained consensus among all but one of its members, sent off ...
Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D
Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...
Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D
Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...
Eating “GMO-free” is a luxury
In this modern age of plenty, we no longer worry about what to eat. Now, we agonize over what not ...
Genetic modification can help solve global food crisis
The biggest impact investor in the world, Bill Gates, believes one of the solutions to world hunger is through the ...
“Food police” routed, food movement failing
As Americans tuck into their turkey and dressing on Thursday, they might add one little item to the list of ...
Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D
Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...
Mexico takes a step toward allowing GM corn
As California voters were considering whether to require food with genetically modified ingredients to be labeled as such, the ongoing ...
Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D
Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...
Did Monsanto plant GMO seeds before USDA approval?
Recently evidence has surfaced showing that Monsanto's genetically altered alfalfa may have been set free in 2003 — a full ...
Political leanings and Prop 37: Do they correlate?
San Francisco supported Proposition 37!Discover Magazine (blog)A few weeks ago I alluded to the controversy around proposition 37. This was ...
Anti-allergen milk has unforeseen dangers
Also due to the regulatory incompetence which, it seems, is having “a chilling effect on animal biotech efforts”, GM animal ...
Justice Department ends Monsanto antitrust probe
The Department of Justice has announced that Monsanto Co. is no longer the target of an antitrust investigation, saying it will ...
Genomics data could make steaks more tender
Genetic Testing In The Steak-House. DNA analyses may help select the best breeds by predicting how beef will taste once ...
Prop 37: The failure of a fringe group
Those who fight against genetically engineered crops are fast becoming a fringe group. Despite years of hard scientific facts, they ...
Russia needs to defend itself against GMOs
Russia needs to enter a five-year moratorium on the use of GMO food products and growing of GMP plants. This ...
Will Obama deliver on campaign promise of GMO labeling?
The stance of the Barack Obama administration on genetically modified foods (GMOs) has been under great scrutiny for many years, ...
Thanksgiving: Millions will celebrate with a turkey that could never exist in nature
They will carve a bird with an oversize breast and legs too puny for walking. After more than a half-century ...
Why did Prop 37 fail? It wasn’t just the money
Michele R. Simon, a lawyer and paid writer and spokesperson for the Yes on 37 campaign argued that it lost ...
How did “biotechnology” become a dirty word?
How did the word biotechnology become so dangerous? Mention it in a group and people look at you with suspicion ...
