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.
Year-long argument over GMO canola ends in Oregon
Attempting to end a years-long argument no one was winning, the Oregon Department of Agriculture decided to expand the areas ...
African biotech specialist disputes concerns over GMOs
At a recent conference on biotechnology held in Accra, Ghana, Professor Jonathan Padi Tetteh stated that GM foods pose no ...
Anti GMO activists angry about pesticides corporations’ funding effort to stop GMO labeling
With the California general election less than four months away, pesticide manufacturers gave more than $750,000 [Update: this number has ...
GMO controversy follows patterns of other science scares: What are the consequences?
The debates about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) echo other science related stories, particularly the discussion of whether food makers should ...
Africa: The next frontier for GM crops?
Recent forecasts indicate that the current century could be the hungriest on record, with the global population estimated to increase ...
Organics activist Ronnie Cummins lashes out at biotech industry, urges California labeling initiative
Ronnie Cummins, an organics activist, vilifies GMOs and the biotech industry in his op ed. Cummins claims that the food ...
Activists accuse Monsanto of trying to “end run” GMO restrictions
Activists accuse Monsanto of a "quiet coup" regarding various activities, including the 2012 Farm Bill, which activists claim will allow ...
Dietary recommendations based on genetics seen as more credible than general dietary guidance
An increasing number of consumers regard dietary recommendations based on genetics as being more credible than general dietary advice, according ...
Wal-Mart to sell genetically modified sweet corn
Rejecting entreaties from consumers and activists, Wal-Mart says it plans to sell a new crop of genetically modified sweet corn ...
Anti biotech activists claim that “GM ‘cure’ threatens to be much worse than any agricultural disease”
“I KNOW an old lady who swallowed a fly” — we all know the song from our childhood, but what ...
Greenpeace activists in costly GM protest
Two women who broke into CSIRO and destroyed a research crop of genetically-modified wheat with whipper-snippers have cost Greenpeace more ...
New technique allows plant breeders to introduce crop traits without access to full genome of crops
A new technique will allow plant breeders to introduce valuable crop traits even without access to the full genome sequence ...
Monsanto wins big award in a biotech patent case
A federal jury awarded $1 billion in damages to the crop biotechnology leader Monsanto on Wednesday, saying that its arch ...
California gene-altered food campaigns draw $4.3 million
A campaign to make California the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods has raised $2.3 million in ...
Global agricultural biotechnology market growing at a rapid pace
The global market for agricultural biotechnology was $13.7 billion in 2011 and is estimated to grow to $14.4 billion in ...
GM crops lead to genetically modified tires
High yielding, genetically modified crops have transformed the economics of U.S. farming. But they also pack an unexpected punch: Their ...
Ireland: Protest over GM potatoes grows
It was reported last week that Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency had approved the trial of a genetically modified potato crop ...
Can genetics improve ethanol production?
A California company with a stake owned by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced it has discovered a yeast gene that ...
Swedish agricultural and food co-operative shuts feed line after GM rapemeal found
Lantmannen highlighted the severity of the European Union's opposition to genetically modified foods by revealing that it had closed down ...
Tel Aviv University researcher says plants can see, smell, feel, and taste
In his new book What a Plant Knows (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and his articles in Scientific American, Prof. Daniel ...
Bananas and genetic engineering: Past, present and future
Scientists are fighting to protect the hundreds of bananas and plantains people eat around the world from a blizzard of ...
Ireland: Angry reaction to GM potatoes go-ahead
Top names from the food, restaurant, and tourism sectors have sharply criticised the Environmental Protection Agency for potentially destroying Ireland’s ...
Philippines: GMO trials to continue
Field trials and commercializing genetically engineered crops to address food security and raise farmer income will continue to be pursued ...
Two-thirds in Britain support GM crop testing
Public opinion in Britain has turned in favor of allowing experiments on genetically modified crops, according to a ComRes survey ...
GM crop efficacy may be jeopardized by pest mutations
Genetic mutations in pests that allow them to develop resistance to genetically-modified (GM) cropsmay be much more diverse in field ...
EPA approves standardized set of controls for GM research
The Environmental Protection Authority has approved two applications by a group of New Zealand universities, Crown Research Institutes and independent ...
Ireland: Green light for GM potatoes test
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given the go-ahead for a genetically modified blight-resistant potato crop to be tested on ...
