Daily Food & Agriculture 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.
Use of GM to produce sterile male insects
Scientists at a British company have been able to genetically modify the Diamondback moth, one of the world’s most damaging ...
Italy: GMO field to be destroyed after being authorized 14 years ago
An experimental field of GMO plants, authorized in 1998 in Italy, is going to be destroyed during the next few ...
Should we label genetically modified food?
States--including California and Vermont--are considering laws that would require that genetically modified foods be clearly labeled on the packaging. Nationwide, ...
EU plans to let traces of unapproved GMOs in food
Tiny amounts of unapproved genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be permitted in food imports to the European Union under draft ...
India: Move on GM crops provokes massive protests
The environment ministry's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee — meant to regulate GM crop release — has been hit with a ...
Africa: Gov’t takes measures to increase cotton production
The Government of Ghana has pledge its commitment towards the increment of cotton production in the country. To this end, ...
U.S. House biotech proposal would bypass courts-critic
A provision in a U.S. House bill would allow farmers to grow genetically modified crops while court battles are under ...
Anti-GM group find drought-resistant GM corn lacking
The Union for Concerned Scientists (UCS) said the only genetically altered corn approved by regulators and undergoing field trials in ...
Nigeria: ‘Genetically modified foods safe for humans’
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) says consumption of Genetically Modified (GM) foods will not pose any threat to human ...
Campaign to label biotech foods a waste of time and money, says GM supporter
Occasionally you just have to stop and ask yourself what the public has against scientific progress; especially when it comes ...
Creator of drought-tolerant corn says value is to be determined by farmers
The makers of the first corn genetically modified to be tolerant of drought said they are confident it will prove ...
Monsanto opposition criticizes Obama for leading company to Africa
Last week President Barack Obama announced a plan that puts Monsanto, as well as other large argi-businesses, in charge of ...
Genetically modified crops are, indeed different says GM critic
In the recent article in the Des Moines Register, “Ag critics called threat to economy” (April 6), Paul Shickler, Pioneer ...
Senate says GM salmon don’t need more testing, says Organic Consumers Association
Despite strong lobbying from northwestern senators for a measure that would require more testing of genetically engineered salmon before it's ...
Researcher to unravel mysteries of hot chile
A graduate student in New Mexico is setting out to unlock the genetics of the state’s signature crop – the ...
GM corn needs bigger refuges to slow pest resistance
Genetically modified crops that produce insect-killing proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have reduced reliance on insecticide sprays since ...
GM crops imperative to improve agri productivity
The agriculture experts and scientists have termed the adoption of modern agricultural technology vital to improve the productivity of agriculture ...
Device picks up GM fruit contaminates
The production and commercialization of of genetically modified (GM) crops is still a relatively new technology that was adopted to ...
Scientists take shot at Monsanto’s drought tolerant corn
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has issued a report saying that Monsanto's new drought-tolerant corn, DroughtGard, might not yield ...
Roundup Ready beets move closer to deregulation
A U.S. Department of Agriculture statement issued Friday marked another step that could fully deregulate Roundup Ready sugar beets, potentially ...
A turning point for GM crops in the EU?
It's not a big secret that many Europeans are afraid of new, cutting-edge technologies. Microbiologist Dr. Anne Glover, the very ...
Unraveling the corn genome
Corn has come a long way in 8,000 years, and genetic progress is poised to accelerate further as scientists gain ...
Scientists map and sequence genome of switchgrass relative foxtail millet
A newly published genetic sequence and map of foxtail millet, a close relative of switchgrass and an important food crop ...
European GM crop area diminishes
Fewer and fewer field trials with genetically modified plants are conducted in Europe. The only exception is Spain, where large ...
GM food, war metaphors and the perils of political entrenchment
Over a decade ago ago I wrote a few articles on cloning and GM, GMOs, genetic engineering, genetically modified foods ...
Precautionary principle should apply to GM food, claims former scientists
Genetic modification is not simply the insertion of genes which act independently of the rest of the genome. These genes ...
Time to start reaping GM benefits, says GM supporter
Ever since the Asilomar Conference on ‘Recombinant DNA' in February 1975, regulatory policies relating to recombinant DNA technology have focused ...
