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.
GM reactionaries deny science
The following is an excerpt: After the cultivation of more than a billion hectares of GM crops worldwide – and ...
Anti-biotechs continue to push poor science
The following is an excerpt. A study published last month found that the most common modification in genetically modified (GM) ...
Plant scientists hope to use epigenetics to improve crops
The following is an excerpt. Plant scientists long have known they can alter crops genetically to improve performance; they’ve been ...
Sit-in, hunger-strike in Mexico City against GMO corn plantations
The following is an excerpt. On Wednesday, January 23rd, regional leaders from a nation-wide peasant organization converged on the Angel ...
Northeast Organic Farm Association discusses GMOs at conference
The following is an excerpt. “They’ve got a beautiful package. They’ve got seeds that are resistant. They phase out the ...
Lobbying by agri-business killed New Mexico GMO labeling Bill, claim supporters
The following is an excerpt. Supporters of a New Mexico Senate bill proposing mandatory labeling for genetically engineered food and ...
We consume DNA every day with no ill effects
A combination of rare-to-impossible events would be required for the so-called "toxic" CaMV 35S gene to be a human health ...
Environmentalists push for GMO labeling in Hawaii
The following is an excerpt. HONOLULU (AP) — Environmental groups are urging Hawaii lawmakers to require all genetically modified food ...
Will federal compromise on GMO labeling trump state law, forever?
The following is an excerpt. Here is the pattern: a grassroots effort builds over time to enact local or state ...
Experts: GM crops can only do India good
The following is an excerpt. BANGALORE: India's biotechnology and healthcare services sector says numerous regulatory challenges are thwarting discovery, research and innovation. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, ...
Golden rice: Is a GM food breakthrough finally here?
The following is an excerpt. Scientists say they have seen the future of genetically modified foods and have concluded that ...
Spider venom inspires new farming methods
The following is an excerpt. Producing food will undoubtedly get more difficult and expensive as the combined challenges of climate ...
Wal-Mart may back GM labeling initiative
The U.S.'s largest grocery store operator has been discussing lobbying for a national labeling program ...
Genetically modified tobacco produces cheap, effective rabies treatment
The following is an excerpt. According to the World Health Organisation more than 55,000 people die after contracting rabies every ...
Burger King finds horse DNA at Irish plant
The following is an excerpt. LONDON – Burger King has found traces of horse DNA at a plant that supplied ...
India farmer suicides a case of misplaced GM blame
The following is an excerpt. Numbers are hazy and disputed, but since 1995, facing crippling debt, thousands of Indian farmers ...
Taiwan clones world’s first spotted miniature pigs
The following is an excerpt. A Taiwan research team with members from National Chung Hsin University, Chung Shan Medical University ...
GM potatoes will be back
The following is an excerpt. KENNEWICK, Wash. -- A University of Idaho researcher says he's optimistic efforts to develop genetically ...
Russia: Compulsory registration of GMO products
The following is an excerpt. A bill to introduce compulsory registration of all products containing GM-components is in the final ...
EU report urges caution on GE food
The following is an excerpt. A new report, “Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation,” from the European Environment ...
Indian farmers trapped and desperate
The following is an excerpt. A wave of suicides has swept through the Indian farming community in recent years as, ...
GMO labeling to appear on Washington State’s ballot
The following is an excerpt. Anti-biotechnology activists submitted 350,000 signatures from registered Washington voters to put a proposed genetic modification ...
No ‘silver bullet’ for feeding the world’s hungry
The following is an excerpt. What’s the greatest challenge to growing enough food to feed 7 billion – or even, ...
Anti-biotechs promote subsistence level farming
The following is an excerpt. The dream world lead by Luddites and New Age gurus are proposing a return to ...
Drumbeat for GM labeling getting louder
Drumbeat for bioengineering labeling getting louderFood Business News (registration)Connie Tipton, president and chief executive officer of the International Dairy Foods ...
Chickpea genome map to benefit poor farmers
The following is an excerpt. A team of agricultural researchers from Asia, Australia, Europe and North America, led by the ...
Company gives up on approval for GM potatoes in Europe
The following is an excerpt. BASF SE (BAS.XE) has given up seeking approval for genetically modified potatoes in Europe, the ...
