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.
Mexico takes a step toward allowing GM corn
As California voters were considering whether to require food with genetically modified ingredients to be labeled as such, the ongoing ...
Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D
Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...
Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D
Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...
Eating “GMO-free” is a luxury
In this modern age of plenty, we no longer worry about what to eat. Now, we agonize over what not ...
Genetic modification can help solve global food crisis
The biggest impact investor in the world, Bill Gates, believes one of the solutions to world hunger is through the ...
“Food police” routed, food movement failing
As Americans tuck into their turkey and dressing on Thursday, they might add one little item to the list of ...
Genomics data could make steaks more tender
Genetic Testing In The Steak-House. DNA analyses may help select the best breeds by predicting how beef will taste once ...
Did Monsanto plant GMO seeds before USDA approval?
Recently evidence has surfaced showing that Monsanto's genetically altered alfalfa may have been set free in 2003 — a full ...
Political leanings and Prop 37: Do they correlate?
San Francisco supported Proposition 37!Discover Magazine (blog)A few weeks ago I alluded to the controversy around proposition 37. This was ...
Anti-allergen milk has unforeseen dangers
Also due to the regulatory incompetence which, it seems, is having “a chilling effect on animal biotech efforts”, GM animal ...
Justice Department ends Monsanto antitrust probe
The Department of Justice has announced that Monsanto Co. is no longer the target of an antitrust investigation, saying it will ...
Prop 37: The failure of a fringe group
Those who fight against genetically engineered crops are fast becoming a fringe group. Despite years of hard scientific facts, they ...
Russia needs to defend itself against GMOs
Russia needs to enter a five-year moratorium on the use of GMO food products and growing of GMP plants. This ...
Will Obama deliver on campaign promise of GMO labeling?
The stance of the Barack Obama administration on genetically modified foods (GMOs) has been under great scrutiny for many years, ...
Thanksgiving: Millions will celebrate with a turkey that could never exist in nature
They will carve a bird with an oversize breast and legs too puny for walking. After more than a half-century ...
Why did Prop 37 fail? It wasn’t just the money
Michele R. Simon, a lawyer and paid writer and spokesperson for the Yes on 37 campaign argued that it lost ...
How did “biotechnology” become a dirty word?
How did the word biotechnology become so dangerous? Mention it in a group and people look at you with suspicion ...
Biotechnology and green “urbaneering” go hand-in-hand
Mitchell Joachim, an associate professor at NYU and co-president of Terreform ONE , a nonprofit design organization based in Brooklyn ...
Genetically Modified: two words worth $45 million
Despite significant popular support for the labeling of genetically modified foods in recent polls, when it came time to vote ...
The genes we eat: a conversation
Many worry that genetic advances could result in risks to our health and the environment—concerns that surfaced again in the ...
What will it take to convince people GM foods are safe?
Genetically modified foods are a hot button issue for a lot of people. Just a few weeks ago, California voters ...
Book: How synthetic biology will reinvent nature and ourselves
In the future, genetically modified organisms could be making our medicines, our fuel, our housewares, our houses — and they ...
Biosecurity concerns for new animal disease research lab
For over 50 years the United States has carried out research on dangerous animal diseases at Plum Island, just off ...
Company wants to use GM insects to protect crops
Whether you like them or not, genetically modified ingredients are hard to avoid in the food supply--they’re found in most ...
Animal rights activists challenge patents on genetically engineered chimps
Animal rights activists in Germany are contesting three patents on genetically engineered chimpanzees granted this year by the European Patent ...
Mapped pig genome may aid medical research, food production
Scientists have mapped the genome of the domestic pig in a project that could enhance the animal's use for meat ...
GM seeds spur protest in Costa Rica
Close to one hundred people gathered in front of the Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia (MAG) in San Jose on ...
