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.
GM crops still far from mass cultivation
Genetically-modified (GM) maize has yet to be grown en masse as there is still a requirement for tests if the ...
Balancing needs and fears in the GM crop debate
On Wednesday's Today programme a spokesman for the Rothamsted biologists doing the "urging" (Scientists send video plea to anti-GM crop ...
Octopus genes may foretell climate rise problems
Now, genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus reveals that this may have happened at some point in the not-too-distant past ...
A chance to move the GM debate on
Will something come of it after all? On Tuesday, crop scientists at one of Britain's leading agricultural centres pleaded with ...
Genetically modified food labels legislation fails in Connecticut
A key Connecticut lawmaker says efforts to enact state legislation requiring labeling of genetically modified food died in the face ...
Why GM crops are a moral necessity
Professor of international development at Harvard, Calestous Juma has called on Africa to form an "International Institute for Biotechnology" that ...
GM critics in Malyasia on attack
Contrary to national interest, Or hopelessly flawed. Take your pick. Whatever your choice, in what is billed as the Great ...
Turkey’s biosafety law causes heavy losses to agri-food chain
According to the new Economic Impact Assessment by British consultant Graham Brookes (PG Economics), Turkey’s biosafety law has had a ...
Why is the Gates Foundation helping Monsanto push GMOs?
Monsanto and the Gates Foundation claim genetically modified crops will revolutionize agriculture in Kenya, but critics warn the technology is ...
Consumers trust food biotech, industry survey says
The International Food Information Council (IFIC) 2012 "Consumer Perceptions of Food Technology & Sustainability" survey shows that Americans remain highly ...
Frankenfoods at Whole Foods Market grocery causes dispute
Even in a city full of people working for Monsanto, virtually everyone wants labels on food with genetically modified organisms ...
Tanzania: Call for review of GMO rules
SOME stakeholders in the cotton industry have demanded the strict liability clause in bio-safety regulatory framework to be removed to ...
Grant will help scientists uncover hidden soybean genes
Soybeans are the world's largest single source of vegetable protein and edible oil, already used to make livestock feed, soymilk, ...
Molecular genetics helps ‘undress’ mutton
Under the supervision of Murdoch agricultural scientist Professor David Pethick, he borrowed an idea from molecular genetics to test the ...
GM food worm its way penetrating Vietnamese market
In April 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) informed that there had been no final experiment result ...
Africa: Global and national resistance to GMOs
Our focus in this presentation is on modern biotechnology in crops and animal species. Traditional biotechnology is as old as ...
Scientists now raise fears on safety of GMOs
Dr Lubano Kizito of the Kenya Medical Research Institute said the human health is crucial and thus safety issues that ...
Misplaced protest against GMO
Plant scientists at Rothamsted Research, a complex of buildings and fields in Hertfordshire, UK, that prides itself on being the ...
Opinions on genetic engineering that aren’t worth a bean
Just in time for Earth Day in April, a Stanford Magazine article about the farming of soybeans offered a rich ...
Back from the dead: Couple who paid $155,000 to CLONE their dog
One couple couldn't bare to live without their beloved yellow Labrador, so when he died of cancer they put a ...
Importance of global food supply and security
The importance of a secure global food supply extends beyond the threat of hunger and malnutrition into wider security concerns, ...
Should GMOs in food products be labeled?
Consumers may not know exactly what genetically modified food is, but chances are they’re eating it. A local grocer is ...
Kenya to get 249 million GMO technology boost
KENYA is set to benefit from a US $ 3 million grant seeking to enhance knowledge sharing and awareness on ...
GM crops and Africa: Agricultural potential
Today, I had the opportunity to speak with Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development at Harvard. Juma ...
Optimize use of biotech in pest management
As biotechnology requires huge investment in terms of facilities as well as manpower, it was suggested that “Centre of Excellence” ...
£1.25m cash for crop research
Researchers at the institute will identify DNA markers that can be used in barley breeding programmes to eliminate potential varieties ...
Algae could help feed the world
Algae as a base for fuel is becoming less common since subsidies dried up and speculative algae-based biofuel companies are ...
