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.
U.S. Embassy partners to organize agricultural biotechnology workshop to promote awareness about GMOs
Funded by the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, the workshop aims to create awareness of the bio-safety of ...
Dairy producers gain access to new genetic testing services
Canada’s dairy producers have long recognized the benefits of identifying desired genetic traits in their herds. Now, with the creation ...
Swaziland moving towards GM crop farming
SEA in partnership with the University of Swaziland, took the media on an educational tour of genetically modified crops in ...
GM products imported into Swaziland illegally
Despite the fact that Swaziland does not have a bio-safety law, genetically modified (GM) products are being imported into the ...
Food prices can go up if transgenic is refused
Considerations by one of the most important supermarket chains in the United Kingdom. Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc, one of the ...
Video: Farmers and researchers discuss GMOs
Farmers and experts from around the world discuss their experiences with genetically modified food crops. View video discussion about biotechnology ...
Healthy, risk-free biotech crops pushed
The Biotechnology Coalition of the Philippines (BCP) has reaffirmed its commitment to push for the adoption of biotech crops that ...
Video: Debate about GM crops reignites
The genetic modification of plants has been back in the news recently as scientists at Rothamsted Research conduct an open ...
Number of GM field trials in Europe in decline
The number of applications for experimental field trials with GM plants in Europe is steadily decreasing, new figures show. The ...
Man faces GM wheat break-in charges
A 50-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after an incident at a research centre where a trial of ...
Stringent GMO regulatory system urged by anti-GM group
MANILA, Philippines -- International environment group Greenpeace urged a strict scrutiny of regulators of GMO (genetically-modified organism) products being introduced ...
GMO: Unproven harm, unconfirmed benefit
Production of genetically-modified products is prohibited in Russia, but their import is allowed. GMO are rarely used for food production, ...
Kenya to commercialize genetically modified foods by 2014
Kenya is implementing guidelines to facilitate the commercialization of genetically modified crops by 2014 as part of efforts to boost ...
Rothamsted GM trial: Scientists against activists
Genetically modified (GM) foods have been off the shelves and out of British fields for many years now. But the ...
Canada: British Columbian apple growers worry over GM
Some growers in the Okanangan region of British Columbia are worried by the introduction of genetically modified crops. This comes ...
Genetically altered salmon may encounter another roadblock
Another roadblock or barrier is in the process of being erected in the case of the highly controversial "Frankenfish" the ...
Plants genetic response changes due to stress
No one's talking about giving intelligence tests, but researchers say they've shown that plants have smarts — the sort needed ...
Farmers, activists seek ban on genetically modified plants in Oregon’s Jackson County
A group of local farmers and food activists wants Jackson County to pass an ordinance banning the planting of genetically ...
Grower develops GMO apple that won’t turn brown
An Okanagan orchardist is trying to get the OK for a genetically modified apple that won't turn brown, but his ...
Destroy GMO-tainted papaya crops, researcher says
Academics yesterday called on the Agriculture Department to destroy farms growing Hawaiian papaya in Kanchanaburi province after a recent study ...
Anti-GMO group raises concerns about GM products
Biotechnology's promise to feed the world did not anticipate "Trojan corn," "super weeds" and the disappearance of monarch butterflies. But ...
Farmers, activists seek ban on genetically modified plants in Oregon’s Jackson County
A group of local farmers and food activists wants Jackson County to pass an ordinance banning the planting of genetically ...
Researchers mark milestone in pursuit of switchgrass genome
In Washington, in an attempt to piece together the switchgrass genome, the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in an international ...
Farmers challenge GM trials on BBC’s Newsnight
Conventional wheat farmer Peter Lundgren will join other GM sceptics in a public debate on Rothamsteds GM wheat trial hosted ...
GM wheat trial promises fiery TV debate
Campaigners are set to lock horns with the scientists behind the GM wheat trial at Rothamsted Research in a live ...
Specialty crop group petitions EPA on herbicide-resistant crops
A coalition within the U.S. specialty crop industry has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency and USDA’s Animal and Plant Health ...
Maps of Miscanthus genome offer insight into grass evolution
Miscanthus grasses are used in gardens, burned for heat and energy, and converted into liquid fuels. They also belong to ...
