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.
Key found in fight against farm pest diamondback moth
Scientists have uncovered the "evolutionary trick" of one of the world's worst agricultural pests, the diamondback moth. Diamondback moths wreak ...
India under pressure to allow GM foods
India is the second most populous country in the world and consumes agricultural produce marketed as staple food in large ...
Monsanto versus the people
Exploiting their patent on transgenic corn, soybean and cotton, Monsanto asserts an insidious control of those agricultural industries in the ...
Institute of Food Science & Technology to sponsor free food science webinar
FoodManufacture.co.uk and the Institute of Food Science & Technology are sponsoring a free public webinar on food science and technology ...
Like it or not, the future of food involves GM
With consumer demand for minimally processed, fresh-like food, it is inevitable that food ingredient innovation will step up to meet ...
Safer food: New biotech uses DNA to screen for bacteria faster than ever
Chicken meat and other foods will be able to be screened for bacteria even faster and more effectively than ever, ...
Institute of Food Science & Technology to sponsor free food science webinar
FoodManufacture.co.uk and the Institute of Food Science & Technology are sponsoring a free public webinar on food science and technology ...
UK government’s enthusiasm for GM not matched in developing nations
Britain wants GM food to be grown commercially. After years of encouraging developing countries in Africa and elsewhere to grow them, but unable to ...
Institute of Food Science & Technology to sponsor free food science webinar
FoodManufacture.co.uk and the Institute of Food Science & Technology are sponsoring a free public webinar on food science and technology ...
Politics and the poor man’s plate
Source – Defining Ideas, Hoover Institution By Henry I. Miller Date – Jan 10, 2013 Website – www.hoover.org Bureaucrats and ...
Science and the debate on GM crops
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)Science and the Debate on Genetically Modified CropsCouncil on Foreign Relations (blog)Opponents label it as “Frankenfood,” ...
Activist farmers join Monsanto protest
Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy Now! gathered in front of the White House today, directly ...
India urged to adopt autonomous biotech regulatory authority
Noted agricultural scientist and Rajya Sabha member M.S. Swaminathan on Tuesday stressed the need for putting in place an autonomous ...
Colorado next target of anti-biotech groups?
Several Colorado agricultural groups are on high alert for the possible introduction of new legislation targeting genetically modified crops this ...
Poland latest European country to ban GM crops
Poland has become the eighth European country to ban the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops approved by the European ...
Mark Lynas has “discovered high school biology,” now it’s time to go to college
The “conversion” of Mark Lynas has taken the world by storm, a bad guy suddenly sees the light and dresses ...
India’s prime minister calls for a scientific approach to GM crops
India's Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh called for a scientific approach for dealing with contentious issues such as genetically modified ...
Transgenic crops cut toxins, boost ecosystem
Environmentalists who are skeptical about genetically modified crops should think again, judging from a study published last June. Researchers reported in ...
Eco-feminist Vandana Shiva: fanatic or fantasist?
Perhaps as a sign of the change in attitudes on GM the reaction to Mark Lynas’s speech renouncing his anti-GMO ...
The problem with GM food is the patent
The Main Problem With Patented GM Food Is The Patent, Not The Fact That It's GMTechdirtBut every GM food becomes ...
GM food labeling bill pre-filed in New Mexico Senate
Food Safety NewsGenetically Modified Food Labeling Bill Pre-Filed in New Mexico SenateFood Safety NewsWirth for comment were unsuccessful. It is ...
Two in three UK shoppers demand GM product labels
Daily MailTwo in three shoppers demand GM product labels in embarrassing consumer ...Daily MailThe FSA figures show a large majority ...
Why the GMO labeling bill will fare better in Washington State
On November 6, in the wake of one of the most expensive and scurrilous smear campaigns in history, six million ...
In Latin America, a growing backlash against GM food
Are genetically modified crops “Franken-foods” or the answer to global hunger and climate change? That is the dilemma dividing Latin America, ...
Mark Lynas: An environmentalist’s conversion
It has been more than fifteen years since companies like Monsanto began intense efforts to export agricultural biotechnology from the ...
The GMO debate can finally begin
Last Thursday, Mark Lynas simply stated, in measured and scientific terms, that he had changed his mind. It is a measure of ...
Counting the cost of the anti-GMO movement
There is a long and growing list of agricultural, environmental, and health improvement that "could have been" if the anti-GMO ...
