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.
Wheat genome sheds light on its domestication, adaptation and modification
The following is an edited excerpt. Two manuscripts related to the ancestral wheat genomes of Triticum urartu andAegilops tauschii provide an unprecedented glimpse ...
Jane Goodall, anti-GMO writers show profound ignorance of basic biology
The following is an edited excerpt. It’s a sad day for the reality-based community, within the critiques of Jane Goodall’s new ...
Bioscience should underpin African agriculture, meeting hears
The following is an excerpt. Bioscience projects including ones that turn tannery waste into manure can improve crop productivity and food ...
No labeling needed when consumers know the whole truth
The following is an excerpt. Shop at Whole Foods. Spend your Whole Paycheck. That’s the popular description of the upscale ...
GMO labeling activists oppose continuing resolution provision
The following is an excerpt. A demonstration organized by supporters of labeling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products today consisted ...
GMO protestors would accomplish more by talking to the companies
The following is an excerpt. t seems that those who are against GEs are against them because of the actions ...
Monsanto to waive some GMO soy royalties in Paraguay-farmers
The following is an excerpt. Monsanto Co has agreed to waive the collection of royalties for the use of technology ...
Hawaii latest state to back away from mandatory GMO labeling
The following is an excerpt. The Hawaii Senate committees on agriculture, consumer protection and health talked tough on Genetically Modified ...
Connecticut: ‘Frankenfoods’ or better living through biotechnology?
The following is an excerpt. State legislators, like most of us, generally aren’t rocket scientists, nor are they cutting-edge health ...
Scientific sleight of hand and monarch butterflies
The following is an excerpt. A recent article entitled "Monsanto v Monarch Butterflies" begins by examining the argument that GMO ...
From fat to fuel: GM bacteria could convert waste into energy
The following is an edited excerpt. Plant waste has long been seen as a possible source of sustainable biofuels, and new ...
Alaskan legislature takes stand against GM salmon
The following is an edited excerpt. The Legislature passed a resolution against genetically modified salmon on Monday, sending a message ...
Uganda’s genetically modified golden bananas
The following is an edited excerpt. Uganda's government has put a big emphasis on genetically modified crops as a way ...
My war against GM crops
The following is an edited excerpt. In the late 1990s while on a visit to the USA I saw my ...
Monsanto and DuPont settle GM seed battle
The following is an edited excerpt. DuPont Co will pay Monsanto Co at least $1.75 billion in a new licensing ...
Peak farmland means more room for nature
The following is an edited excerpt. “Humanity now stands at Peak Farmland, and the 21st century will see release of ...
Big Agriculture flexes its muscle
The following is an edited excerpt. Congress holds the purse strings, but who holds Congress these days when it comes ...
Monsanto to debut new GMO soy in Brazil, pending China
The following is an excerpt. Monsanto Co hopes to roll out a new bioengineered, worm-resistant soybean seed for planting in ...
Genetic modification strains old food and drug laws
The following is an excerpt. When is a fish not a fish but a drug? When government regulators take old ...
Fears about GMOs among some Ugandans unfounded
The following is an excerpt. GMO is ... one of the options that should be adopted to quicken the process ...
Monsanto teams up with Congress to shred the constitution
The following is an excerpt. Our founding fathers, white maleness aside, did get a few things right. One of them ...
UK: Rothamsted looks to extend GM wheat trials
The following is an excerpt. The centre in Harpenden, which was attacked by anti-GM protesters for its aphid resistant wheat ...
Should Monsanto be allowed to bring GM crops to Vietnam?
The following is an excerpt. HO CHI MINH CITY — It’s 5 a.m. and the streets already are buzzing. People ...
GMOs are one solution to an ancient puzzle
The following is an excerpt. For decades now, GMOs have been railed against for producing food aplenty, but at grave ...
Can a genetically modified potato fight off blight?
The following is an edited excerpt. Ewen Mullins is the face of modern Ireland: Young, cosmopolitan, highly educated, he is ...
Why is Vermont’s governor Peter Shumlin bowing to Monsanto?
The following is an edited excerpt. After three years of trying to get a law passed by the Vermont legislature ...
Heath hits out at ‘international hypocrisy’ on GM
The following is an edited excerpt. Farming Minister David Heath has hit out at the ‘international hypocrisy’ he claims exists ...
