Daily Food & Agriculture 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.
Glyphosate on trial: California Supreme Court rejects request from Bayer to review first Roundup-cancer verdict
Bayer AG’s Monsanto Co. lost a bid for the California Supreme Court to review the first multimillion-dollar jury award to ...
Viewpoint: Rush to develop COVID vaccine highlights failure of Europe’s GM crop regulations
In a recent article of mine published in the journal, Global Food Security, I highlight the EU’s reluctance to move ...
Replacing pesticides: Expected chlorpyrifos ban spurs development of more sustainable insecticides
A broad-spectrum insecticide that kills all arthropods in its path, chlorpyrifos was used for decades throughout the US .... But ...
GM Impossible Burger hits 200 grocery stories in Asia, as effort to ‘replace’ meat moves forward
[Impossible Foods'] flagship imitation beef product went on sale in 200 supermarkets across Hong Kong and Singapore on Tuesday. Impossible's ...
Video: GM insect-resistant cotton boosted India’s crop yields 29% and farmer incomes $24.31 billion
Insect-resistant (IR) cotton has impacted the lives of Indian farmers since it was introduced in 2002. This is according to ...
EU agriculture ministers back pro-organic Farm 2 Fork plan, but support gene editing to boost sustainable food production
The EU should make use of innovative breeding technologies to boost sustainability of food production, agriculture ministers agreed on [October ...
Drought, cropland expansion push Great Plains toward ‘Dust Bowl 2.0,’ climate scientists say
Earlier [in October], a storm front swept across the Great Plains of the United States, plowing up a wall of ...
Plant-based burgers….now milk? Impossible Foods aims to make realistic dairy alternative without cows
.... Impossible Foods, makers of the Impossible Burger and other plant-based meat alternatives, are working on another food replacement that ...
Despite activist opposition, Ghana’s scientists seek government approval for GM insect-resistant cowpea
The Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) has announced it will in November officially request approval from the National Biosafety Authority ...
Cowspiracy? GMO OMG? Beware of misleading food ‘documentaries,’ ex-organic farmer warns
Not long ago, I spoke to a teacher who had recently shown Food, Inc. to her class, and she asked me my ...
Doctor breeds better livestock for Africa
When Dr. Baker Bakashaba graduated from Uganda’s Makerere University Medical School in 2014, a close family friend gave him the ...
Thank India and Pakistan for dairy. They’ve been producing milk and cheese since 2500 BC
The lands that make up modern-day Pakistan and India have been producing dairy for almost five thousand years now, according ...
Despite federal court ruling, California may put Prop 65 cancer label on glyphosate weedkiller
On October 6, 2020, the California Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC) announced it will be meeting on December 11, ...
Wealthy countries fear GM crops, while developing nations say they will ‘mostly help,’ poll shows
Up to 60 percent of people worldwide are worried the food they eat will harm them in the next two ...
World Food Day: Post-pandemic food security and resilience in Bangladesh
As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic lays waste to lives and livelihoods in countries around the globe, [October ...
Genetic engineering reveals how Venus flytrap spots prey, shedding light on plant’s short-term ‘memory’
A Venus flytrap’s short-term “memory” can last about 30 seconds. If an insect taps the plant’s sensitive hairs only once, ...
Gene-edited crops approved by USDA jumps from 7 to 70 between 2019 and 2020
Signaling progress for a new kind of crop engineering, the biotech crop trait firm Cibus says it will move forward ...
COVID vaccine ‘bio-factories’: Step-by-step look at how GMO tobacco plants could help end the pandemic
Two biotech companies are using the tobacco plant, Nicotiana benthamiana, as bio-factories to produce a key protein from the coronavirus ...
Biofortified GM crops may be a long-term solution to global micronutrient deficiencies
Over two billion people worldwide suffer from micronutrient deficiencies due to insufficient intake of vitamins and minerals. Poor sections of ...
