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.
Uphill fight waged to turn back Prop 37, says pro-GM supporter
Vote no on California’s Prop 37. Most of you will. However, we are likely to be on the losing end ...
Australian perspective on Seralini affair
By now, you may have heard that eating genetically modified (GM) corn causes cancer. That alarming news is based on ...
Genetically engineered in California: A food label we don’t need, says pro-GM supporter
From “food miles” to farmers’ markets, it seems that consumers have never been more interested in the ways their food ...
Insects shape the genetic landscape through plant defenses
The new study, involving aphids and the broccoli-like research plant Arabidopsis thaliana, provides the first measureable evidence that this selective ...
Is the world ready for a GMO tomato?
If you would have posed that question to University of Florida tomato breeder Jay Scott back in the 1990s, he ...
Prop. 37 bad for farms, economy and families, says pro-GM supporter
Agriculture is the largest industry in California, and as a long-time Santa Maria farmer, I am deeply concerned about provisions ...
Transgenic grains: Incentive measures for banning GMOs in all of Europe?
The debate about the possible harmful effects of GM foods came roaring back after a French scientific research linked the ...
Europe: Food safety authority delays GM study over credibility concerns
The European Food Safety Authority has stalled a dual study which linked tumours developed by test rats to potential toxicity ...
Prop 37 will subject most packaged foods to labeling, says Cornell professor
A Cornell University professor maintains most packaged foods would need to carry a genetically engineered label if California voters approve ...
Reality check: Anti-Proposition 37 ad is partially misleading
What's the charge? Henry I. Miller, a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution who was founding director of the Food ...
Indonesia: Transgenic products safe, say scientists
After a French researcher published an alarming study on genetically modified crops, Indonesian scientists say they will scrutinize research from ...
Mosquito genetics may offer clues to malaria control
An African mosquito species with a deadly capacity to transmit malaria has a perplexing evolutionary history, according to discovery by ...
Transgenic grains again scare Europe after misleading GM study
The debate about the possible harmful effects of GM foods came roaring back after a French scientific research linked the ...
The unintended consequences of California Prop 37
So let’s exercise our right to know. Prop 37 is widely described as a referendum to require special labels for ...
Anti-GMO study is “inadequate”, says European Food Safety Authority
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has found that a controversial study, which claimed to link genetically modified (GM) crops ...
How Prop 37 will impact Midwest farmers
The old battle between seed companies and opponents of genetically engineered agriculture is being waged anew in California, where voters ...
LA Times comes out against Prop 37
There's a growing gap between what grocery shoppers think they know about their food and the reality. Those tomatoes with ...
Natural Products Association opposes Prop 37
The Natural Products Association supports the right of consumers to know what ingredients go into their food products. However, NPA ...
Food industry braces for Prop 37
On Nov. 6, 2012, California voters will decide the fate of Proposition 37, the Genetically Engineered Foods Labeling Initiative. If ...
California: Valley farmers fear ‘modified’ wording in Prop. 37
The Valley's edible crops are grown without genetic engineering, but farmers here still fear a ballot initiative aimed at labeling ...
“GMO free” labeling may be cancelled in Ukraine
Manufacturers and importers will be required to indicate information on the presence in food of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) provided ...
EU rejects French scientist report linking GM corn to cancer
The European Food Safety Authority said Thursday it cannot accept an "inadequate" report by a French scientist on a link ...
Prop. 37 is about language, not concept, says GM supporter
People who are either clueless or shills for anti-science hysteria insist 'something is better than nothing' when it comes to ...
Florida: Anti-GM group fights for genetically modified food labeling
The food sold at the farmer's market is the type of food members of Food and Water Watch want to ...
India: Anti-GM protestors do not seem to understand science, says Deputy Director of India’s Council of Agricultural Research
Anti-GM protestors do not seem to understand science and that genetically-modified crops are an extension of modern science, Indian Council ...
India: Activists seek new law on GM crop trials
Even as the Indian government has expressed its willingness to ratify the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur supplementary protocol on biosafety, the potential ...
In the Prop 37 food fight, is fair play losing out?
On Nov. 6, voters will decide whether to approve the country's first law requiring labels for genetically modified foods. More ...
