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.
Widespread misinformation about GM foods common even in farm country
A recent trip to my local farm supply store reminded me of why it's so important that each and every ...
Top Ghanaian politician calls for GM foods ban
Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, chairperson of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has expressed reservation over attempts to introduce genetically modified foods ...
Marker-assisted DNA screening results in new super hybrid crops in record time
Alan Krivanek, a tomato breeder for Monsanto, dons a white protective suit, wipes his feet on a mat of disinfectant ...
Strawberry not sweet? Blame its genetics
If you've ever bitten into a strawberry and wondered why it doesn't taste as sweet or as good as others ...
What are the fixes if the world’s banana crops succumb to disease?
TR4 is the natural born killer of the banana world, capable of wiping out entire plantations within two to three ...
How to feed a world with 9 billion people in 5 steps
When we think about threats to the environment, we tend to picture cars and smokestacks, not dinner. But the truth ...
New GM omega-3 seeds approved for trials in Britain
Permission has been granted by the British department of environment, food and rural affairs for the planting of a genetically ...
GMO labeling bill may expose Vermont to $8 million lawsuit
A GMO food-labeling bill overwhelmingly OK’d in the Senate this week may not inform consumers about what’s in their food ...
French farmers and seed firms vow to fight new ban on GM corn
French farmers and seed firms have vowed to fight a ban on genetically modified corn at the country’s top administrative ...
Video: Story of Bt brinjal in India
"The Story of Bt Brinjal in India" documents the process of development, deregulation, demand and debate about Bt brinjal (eggplant/aubergine) ...
French lower house of parliament bans GM maize cultivation
France's lower house of parliament adopted a law on Tuesday prohibiting the cultivation of any variety of genetically modified maize, ...
Mixed reactions to India’s Bt brinjal pest attack story
Some responses -- both from local and international levels -- have been received relating to a news item published in ...
Anti-GMO organizations join lawsuit defending Kauai ban
A federal judge has agreed to allow the Center for Food Safety, Earthjustice and several other organizations to join a lawsuit to defend ...
Californian scientists bust GMO myths
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are a hot topic all over the world. There are questions about production, safety and regulation ...
Vermont senate move mandatory GMO labeling law forward
The Senate gave a decisive 26-2 vote Tuesday for a bill that would require labeling of foods that contain genetically ...
Obama endorses biotechnology’s important role in agriculture
The dedication of Dr. Norman Borlaug's statue in the U.S. Capitol last month brought together an amazing array of Democrats ...
China GMO debate mirrors US divide
On March 30, the Hainan Provincial Agricultural Department released a statement on its website, saying that nine corn and cotton ...
Genetic engineering can save Mexico’s limes, but will we accept them?
If you are not a regular consumer of Mexican cuisine or gin and tonics, you may not have noticed that ...
Indian prime minister asserts support for GM crop trials
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can be assertive when he chooses to. He has certainly imposed his will on the government ...
Pre-conceived beliefs about food labels can be as important as labels themselves
What we believe about a food's ingredients may have a biological effect on our bodies above and beyond the actual nutrient content. That ...
Growing confidence in GM crops in Africa
There is a sense of growing confidence in genetically modified crops as 18 million farmers have planted over 175 million ...
Does a GMO label make scientific sense for sugar beets? Ag scientist says ‘no’
As a scientist, I cannot understand how anyone can think GMO labeling makes sense. To be fair, I have identified ...
GMOs woven into the fabric of everyday life
Let’s face it that the GMO war in Hawaii is still raging on with Maui on the hit list right ...
Would you trust science or a yogic flying instructor with your food?
Professional forester and writer Norm Benson recently got a healthy dose of anti-science environmentalism, because he wrote an article endorsing a ...
Infographic: Debating the ethics of ‘Golden Rice’
Professor Krishna Mallick of Salem State University debates the ethics of Golden Rice in an infographic. The infographic was prepared ...
U.S. corn exports to China dwindle because of GMOs
China’s tougher stance on imports of genetically modified corn is roiling U.S. agribusiness, largely halting trade in the biggest U.S ...
GE technology is necessary, not just for potato blight
UK’s leading Permaculture author Patrick Whitefield and SkeptEco blogger Graham Strouts recently exchanged a few tweets about genetically modifying potatoes ...
