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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Entomologists team up to thwart bollworm resistance to Bt cotton
The following is an excerpt. Farmers have struggled for longer than a century to keep two insect pests – cotton ...
Genetic engineering ‘monster’ exists only in our minds
The following is an excerpt. The fight against GMO foods is a fight of emotion against science, an effort to ...
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 ...
Meat DNA test isn’t workable onlarge scale
The following is an excerpt. The horse-meat scandal in the U.K. and Ireland has forced suppliers, processors and retailers to ...
Farm virus ‘can infect wild animals’
The following is an excerpt. A livestock virus sweeping through British sheep flocks and cattle herds has infected wild deer, ...
Developing countries plant most GM crops
The following is an excerpt. Developing countries grew more hectares of GM crops last year than industrialised countries but the ...
AquaBounty confident of GM salmon approval despite FDA delay
The following is an excerpt. AquaBounty Technologies - which has already spent years waiting for the FDA to decide whether ...
Monsanto likely to score Supreme Court win with far-reaching benefits for corporate farming
The following is an excerpt. On Feb. 19, 2013, the Supreme Court heard yet another Monsanto case. (And yet again, ...
GM crops have a role in sustainable agriculture
The following is an editorial summary. Dr. Jeffrey C. Silvertooth, associate dean of Education for Economic Development and Extension in ...
Organic tomatoes accumulate more vitamin C, sugars
The following is an excerpt. Tomatoes grown on organic farms accumulate higher concentrations of sugars, vitamin C and compounds associated ...
Supreme court defends Monsanto’s patent on soybean
The following is an excerpt. WASHINGTON — A freewheeling and almost entirely one-sided argument at the Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that ...
