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.
Real threat to food security is ginned-up panic over GMOs
There has been a lot of commotion about GMO crops in the press this summer. It amazes me that there ...
Tomatoes ripe for improvement
Science is trying to build a better supermarket tomato. At a laboratory here at the University of Florida’s Institute for Plant ...
Battling India’s “Monsanto Protection Act,” farmers demand end to GMO
On August 8, thousands of farmers and activists from across 20 Indian states demonstrated in New Delhi against the Biotechnology ...
GM bananas: from nutrition to disease resistance
According to Professor James Dale, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), when Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV) struck Australia in 1913, ...
Lynas slams Indian official for blocking GM eggplant
NEW DELHI: British environmental activist Mark Lynas, who once "demonised" geneticially modified crops and now campaigns for their cause, blames Jairam Ramesh for ...
“We need a holistic approach to bee health challenges”
Bee health has been the subject of much media attention over the last year — and rightly so. Bees are ...
First mainstream GM food on sale in Britain
A Frankenstein food breakfast cereal designed for children and packed with additives linked to bad behaviour and hyperactivity is being ...
Is it time for scientist activism against GMO fear-mongering?
In areas of southeast Asia and Africa, vitamin A deficiency is common and can cause blindness. The World Health Organization estimates that ...
EU group claiming “hidden GMO” sunflowers killing bees
New alert in Italy, were bees are dying on sunflower crops. Multiple cases of honeybee colony decline and neurological symptoms ...
Monsanto poised to take over the weed industry
Earlier this month, the state of Illinois joined the party and legalized medical marijuana, becoming the 20th state in the ...
U.S. farm, food groups want better oversight of GMO field trials
More than 150 U.S. farm and food businesses and organizations on Wednesday called for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...
Beer and GMOs: What’s in your beer?
A few weeks back, an entrepreneur (in this case a modern-day version of a snake oil salesperson) who calls herself ...
Greater Spokane Inc. comes out against Washington’s GMO labeling initiative
Later this year, Washington will vote on whether to label genetically modified foods, or GMOs, and the debate is starting to ...
More critics up against Kenya’s GMO imports ban
A senior US trade specialist has called on Kenya to lift its import ban on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) imports, saying it ...
From California to Washington: Who’s paying for GMO-labelling initiative campaigns?
Groups opposed to labeling genetically modified food outspent those in favor 5 to 1 last year when Californians voted on ...
Michael Pollan and Amy Harmon ‘talk’ it out
A few weeks ago, Amy Harmon's New York Times feature on the challenges Florida orange growers are facing in managing ...
US regulation misses some GM crops
Five years after developing an apple variety containing a defense to fend off apple scab — which took 85 years ...
‘GMOs, traditional foods can coexist’
Speaking at a recent public debate at Makerere University's school of Food Technology, Nutrition, and Bio-engineering in Uganda, British environmentalist ...
Pro-GM crops groups to pitch for use of biotech in farming in India
Amid intense public debate over the impact of Genetically Modified (GM) crops on health and the environment, thousands of farmers ...
GMO fight club: Accusations fly over biotech on Kauai
Amid the latest escalations in the battle over genetically modified crops and biotech in Hawaii, Mark Phillipson, president of the ...
Iowa State Professor: Genetically modified food is harmless
An Iowa State University food science professor said there is no reason to label foods that contain genetically modified foods ...
Using the tools of biotechnology to advance Dr. Norman Borlaug’s legacy
Three weeks ago I was travelling in central Kenya, meeting smallholder farmers who were growing improved bananas using the tools ...
Study finds no more genetically modified wheat in Oregon supply
A study by Washington State University has found no additional sign of the genetically modified wheat discovered at one Oregon ...
Scientists help deliver genetic one-two blow to deadly wheat disease
A new gene that will equip wheat plants to resist the deadly stem rust disease has been discovered by an ...
New biotech alfalfas aim to improve feeding efficiency
The petition to deregulate the second biotech alfalfa drew sparse public comment. Not unexpectedly, it drew far more anti-biotech responses ...
Unscrambling the genetics of the chicken’s ‘blue’ egg
They are the latest foodie fashion and look set to become big business in the baking aisles of all the ...
European Union tramples rights of GM growers
Last year, across the globe, 17 million farmers sowed billions of genetically engineered seeds in more than 420 million acres of ...
