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.
Bangladeshi farmers worry growing more GMO potatoes could hurt exports, particularly to Russia
After a recent initiatives to grow more resilient GM potatoes, the Bangladesh Fruits, Vegetable and Allied Products Exporters' Association worry ...
Gene-edited animals face uncertain future under proposed FDA regulations
Editor's note: The comment period for these regulations -- as well as those proposed by the USDA -- opened on Jan ...
Seed industry, farmers ‘pleased’ with proposed USDA genetic engineering rules
Editor's note: The comment period for these regulations -- as well as those proposed by the FDA -- opened on Jan ...
Canadian farmer: Genetically engineered crops lower prices, increase sustainability
Editor's Note: The author of this article, Bob Bartley, is a Canadian farmer who grows genetically modified corn, canola, and ...
Does Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen” list discourage Americans from eating fresh produce?
Editor's note: This article examines the potential influence of the Environmental Working Group's annual Dirty Dozen list of foods with the ...
GMOs, biotechnology pose challenge for international relations
Just look at genetically modified foods. In the US, GMOs are regarded, at least by regulators, as perfectly safe for ...
Kenya could lose millions in donor funding after stopping biotech crop trials
Kenya stands to lose millions of shillings in donor funding after the government failed to permit biotechnology crop trials, a ...
How do you know what information to trust about glyphosate, GMOs? Do a ‘SMELL test’
Editor's Note: This article, written by Country Guide agriculture columnist Gerald Pilger, discusses how to determine whether an article is ...
Two patent lawyers weigh in on the advantages of genetic modification technology
Editor's Note: This article discusses patent attorneys Brian Reese and Nishat Shaikh recent piece published in the genetic engineering and ...
Former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue tapped as next agricultural secretary
Donald Trump has chosen former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to be his secretary of agriculture, completing a protracted search with ...
Why Ugandan farmers are blocked from growing biotechnology crops
Editor's Note: This article, written by crop scientists Micheal Otim, discusses a recent print article called “MPs who visited Namulonge ...
Ambiguities remain as USDA and FDA set to draw up new GMO labeling law
Congress has effectively preempted the states from imposing different labeling requirements for GE foods than what the USDA eventually requires, ...
Nature Genetics editorial: Make agriculture biotechnology accessible to the public
In the current era of rapid technological advance in reading and writing genomes, we advocate universal access to some safe ...
Glyphosate found in urine poses no health risk in German study
... Glyphosate sales in Germany have increased substantially from ... 2000 to … 2014. The interim peak of approx. 7600 ...
Foodie movement leaders call for aggressive ‘progressive’ agenda to counter Trump
... As of today, the president-elect has yet to nominate an agriculture secretary, but the food movement is rightly aghast ...
Days before inauguration, Trump’s secretary of agriculture pick still unclear
A behind-the-scenes fight between agribusiness tycoons and members of Donald Trump’s camp who want more diversity in the Cabinet has ...
EFSA head: Debate over banning glyphosate not about science, herbicide’s safety
Editor's Note: This article discusses comments made by Bernard Url, the head of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) surrounding ...
Why is cotton production falling in Pakistan?
... [T]he highest cotton produce recorded so far was in 2004 registered 11,138 million bales while the nearest spike was ...
Will DuPont-Dow merger raise global food prices?
The gigantic Dow Chemical-DuPont merger is experiencing some serious antitrust pushback in Europe and some Washington insiders feel it could ...
Trump administration’s three FDA commissioner picks all from venture capitalist sector
Something huge is going to be happening soon at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ... it is all ...
Western Australian Labor party officials scrap plans to try to block GMO crops
The Barnett Government changed regulations to allow the growth of GM canola in 2010, and hundreds of thousands of hectares ...
Wine with no hangover? CRISPR gene-edited yeast could make that happen
[R]esearchers working at the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Services (ACES) claim to have produced a ...
Vietnamese farmers to increase planting, imports of genetically modified corn
… Le Ba Lich, chairman of the Vietnam Animal Feed Association, told VnExpress that Vietnam has imported four million tons ...
Agriculture secretary front-runner Ted McKinney seen likely to promote crop biotechnology
Ted McKinney, [former] director of global corporate affairs for Elanco Animal Health, a division of pharma giant Eli Lilly; [former] ...
Consumer groups push Japanese officials to impose stricter GMO labeling laws
Reports from Japan suggest officials are weighing up imposing stricter rules for the mandatory labelling of food items containing genetically ...
Can gene-edited plants reduce impact of climate change?
If there’s even a smidgen of hope in the climate change story, it’s that ultimately, humans will find a way to pull ...
Paper raises questions because Monsanto to supply seeds for NSF-funded student outreach
[Oregon State University received the] five-year [$4 million] grant from the National Science Foundation also has an educational component, providing ...
