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.
Kenyan authorities now deny that they approved field trials of GMO maize
The National Environmental Management Authority has denied claims it approved GM insect-resistant maize for trial. . . . . Nema’s ...
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore makes case for sustainable GMO Golden Rice
It's not news that Patrick Moore is frustrated with ...Greenpeace. While he was an original founder of the group... And ...
GMO critics say Golden Rice not a ‘silver bullet’ in fight against vitamin A deficiency
...16 years and a lot of money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation later, and some progress has been ...
Anti-biotech French scientist Séralini joins Indian campaign to block approval of GMO mustard
High-yielding GM Indian mustard technology and Dhara Hybrid Mustard-11 (DHM-11) is a path-breaking breakthrough in agriculture sector, developed indigenously by ...
Neonicotinoid debate pits backyard beekeepers against commercial hive operators
The Ontario Beekeepers’ Association (OBA), whose members are mostly hobbyists..., has called for the Canadian Honey Council ... president, Kevin Nixon, ...
Swiss parliament: No scientific justification for glyphosate ban
The House of Representatives has rejected a petition from various organisations such as Greenpeace and the Consumers’ Association for French-speaking ...
Artic Fuji, third non-browning apple, gets green light from USDA
The third non-browning Arctic apple variety - yes, using science - the Arctic Fuji, has been approved by the U.S ...
Why do some skeptics still claim GMOs unhealthy despite abundant contrary evidence?
The real question is whether [genetically] modified foods have been shown to cause harm in adults and children... Jon Entine, ...
Russia allows GMO research, but does ban on cultivation make it pointless?
[Editor's note: This article was translated with Google Translate and lightly edited for clarity] Konstantin Shestibratov, a biotechnologist from the ...
Monsanto says Bayer merger will help company tackle climate change challenges
"We're going to have 3 billion more people join the Middle Class, which along with the growing population is a ...
How will agriculture industry mergers, China’s GMO policies affect small farms?
How will the mega-mergers of Dow Chemicals and Dupont, Bayer and Monsanto and Syngenta and China National Chemical Corp. — ...
European Food Safety Authority will release glyphosate assessment data
EFSA is to release the raw data used in the recent EU safety evaluation of glyphosate, saying the move is ...
Four expert panels say data don’t support IARC’s classification of glyphosate as carcinogenic
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published a monograph in 2015 concluding that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to ...
Conspiracy theories and food safety crises feed GMO opposition in China
...In 1992, China became the first country to introduce a GMO crop into commercial production... virus-resistant tobacco... Since then, the government has ...
Toyota develops DNA analysis technology to increase biofuel yields
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that it has developed a new deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysis technology called Genotyping by Random ...
Dietary supplements may be subject to federal GMO labeling law
Dietary supplements, too, are subject to GMO ingredients. For example, in many nutritional supplement products, soy lecithin is a common ...
Endangered species listing for bumble bee could intensify neonicotinoid debate
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on [Sept. 21] proposed listing the rusty patched bumble bee... for federal protection as an ...
Large supplement maker adopting DNA testing to verify ingredients
NBTY, one of the nation’s largest makers of popular supplements like ginkgo biloba and ginseng, has agreed to conduct advanced ...
Why rice, but not corn, requires genetic modification to produce beta-carotene
Much like the ancient form of rice, the ancient form of corn (teosinte) is not eaten. Much like rice, maize ...
Nobel laureate: EU politicians bow to uninformed public in opposing biotech crops
Sir Richard Roberts is an English biochemist and molecular biologist. A Nobel Laureate, he is the signatory of the 100+ Nobel Laureates letter supporting ...
Monsanto’s licensing of CRISPR will allow faster, more accurate, cheaper crop modification
...[U]ntil last week Monsanto was operating with a very noticeable omission in its research and development arsenal. It's a wonder it took ...
GMO proponents may have overstated benefits of herbicide-resistant soy on environment
[M]any people... have talked about how glyphosate tolerant crops allowed replacement of more toxic herbicides. ...[B]ut that trend seems to ...
Should regulators consider CRISPR crops GMOs?
...What could be born of a union between...Monsanto..., and... Gene-Editing Tool, CRISPR/Cas9? Well, what it won’t be is a genetically modified organism, or ...
CRISPR editing of multiple plant genes results in almost no off target effects
A team that includes a Virginia Tech plant scientist recently used life sciences technology to edit 14 target sites encompassing ...
Class action suit against Syngenta over China’s 2014 rejection of GMO corn will proceed
A U.S. district court judge in Kansas... said lawsuits brought by U.S. farmers against seed company Syngenta AG over sales ...
Will new GMO labeling law apply to CRISPR crops?
...Earlier this year, the USDA gave the greenlight to CRISPR mushrooms engineered to not brown. It wrote that because the new mushroom ...
Iranian GMO opponents gain support from top clerics to ban GMO as ‘Zionist plot’
Iran is seeing its most vociferous outcry yet over the use of genetically-modified ingredients in food production. Opponents of food ...
