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.
Switzerland creates secure test site for GM crops
The following is an edited excerpt. The Swiss government will create a permanently protected area on federal land for experiments ...
Are biofuels endangering US wildlife?
The following is an excerpt. A collection of satellite-imaged maps now confirm what were once only rumors: between 2006 and ...
Livestock virus found on 1500 UK farms
The following is an edited excerpt. A virus that causes stillbirths and birth defects in lambs and calves has spread ...
Hawaii to pass GMO labeling bill, but with amendment
The following is an edited excerpt. Hawaii might have cause to celebrate, as lawmakers have passed a new measure in ...
India: Agriculture experts, researchers support biotech center
The following is an excerpt. Agricultural experts and researchers say proposals to have Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology in Ranchi ...
Agricultural biotech to “eradicate food insecurity” in East Africa
The following is an excerpt. Some dozen African researchers and policy makers who gathered Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for ...
Organic sector pinched by GMO tainting in seed and feed
The following is an excerpt. Organic Valley recently announced a plan to distribute more than $1 million in grants to ...
Minnesota latest state to introduce GM labeling bill
The following is an excerpt. ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Sen. John Marty plans to introduce a bill Thursday requiring the labeling ...
Fighting GM crop vandalism with a government-protected research site
The following is an excerpt. Genetically modified (GM) crops have been a source of great controversy—particularly in Europe—but acts of ...
Growing need for GMO labelling in Namibia
The following is an edited excerpt. The Namibian Organic Association (NOA) is calling for the introduction of mandatory and comprehensive ...
Researchers confirm Bt corn’s benefits aside from pest resistance
The following is an edited excerpt. It turns out that maize hybrids expressing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt corn) is not just a pest ...
Gene switch-off produces healthier carbohydrates
The following is an edited excerpt. We need protein, fat and carbohydrates – there is no way around that. But ...
Genetically modified foods: Who has to tell?
The following is an edited excerpt. Consumers who believe they have a right to know whether their food contains genetically ...
Golden promise: How ‘biofortification’ could soon be saving hundreds of thousands of lives
The following is an edited excerpt. Despite the rapid progress made towards reducing poverty in many developing countries in recent ...
Canadian farmers embrace GM crops
The following is an excerpt. If you wanted to buy Canadian canola oil that wasn't produced from a genetically engineered ...
Lebanon to join the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
The following is an excerpt provided by the ISAAA's Crop Biotech Update. Lebanon submitted its instrument of accession to the Cartagena Protocol ...
A Ugandan farmer’s diary: Biotechnology and the future of farming
The following is an excerpt. For years we have been waiting for a law governing the use of biotechnology products, ...
Church of England “may allow” GM crops on its land
The following is an excerpt. The Church of England, which controls over £7bn of investments including large portfolios of agricultural ...
Anti-GM salmon petition nears one million signatures
The following is an edited excerpt. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in favour of allowing a fish produced by scientists ...
GM debate crops up in Arizona alongside anti-GM filmmaker
The following is an excerpt. Feb. 25, 2013 — The GMO-free community converged on Phoenix on Feb. 21 at Shadow ...
Monsanto: Master of seeds
The following is an excerpt. Imagine an African-American son or daughter of enslaved parents in the antebellum U.S. trying to ...
India must learn from other developing nations adopting biotech crops
The following is an excerpt. While developing countries across the globe have fast-tracked the adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops ...
Mexican farmers protest while Monsanto goes to court
The following is an excerpt from a video transcript. After years of trying to penetrate the Mexican market, Monsanto, Dupont, ...
Mark Lynas: ‘Biofortification’ could soon be saving hundreds of thousands of lives
The following is an edited excerpt. Despite the rapid progress made towards reducing poverty in many developing countries in recent ...
Colorado rejects labels for genetically engineered food
The following is an excerpt. Colorado lawmakers Thursday rejected a proposal that would have required genetically engineered food to be ...
DNA tests reveal horse meat in Ikea’s Swedish Meatballs
The following is an excerpt. Swedish furniture giant Ikea was drawn into Europe's widening food labeling scandal Monday as authorities ...
Federal GMO labeling bill to be introduced in Congress
The following is an excerpt. Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) is planning on introducing a federal bill to mandate labeling of ...
