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.
Pooping Canada geese may have spread GM wheat seeds
Canada geese may have spread viable seeds of genetically modified wheat grown at the Central Experimental Farm, documents from Agriculture ...
Ghana approves first GE crops for trials
Ghana's Biosafety Bill was given Presidential assent to become law, after it has been in Parliament for four years. The ...
Russia to increase production of GE despite scientific uncertainty
The Government of the Russian Federation approved a "roadmap" to increase the production of GMOs. The move will be done ...
Finanical Times editorial: Europe is right to be cautious over GM crops
Monsanto, the US agricultural group, has abandoned its decade-long bid for permission to grow a range of genetically modified crops ...
India: Supreme Court committee says no to GM crops for now
A Supreme Court appointed committee had recommended an indefinite moratorium on field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) crops till the ...
GE in the UK: A change of heart
The 1990s saw a public outcry against genetically modified (GM) foods in the U.K. Activists slashed and pulled up GM ...
NBC Latino looks at the GE food debate
In the past two months alone, there have been international marches against Monsanto, which produces genetically modified seeds, in more ...
Kenya, where GE foods are banned—for now
When Kenya banned imports of genetically modified organisms, it was one of the most comprehensive moves against GM crops outside ...
Natural products association believes market-driven approach better than laws for GE labeling
A market-driven approach that allows consumers to opt for foods made without genetically modified ingredients is preferable to mandatory labeling ...
UK: Europe risks being ‘left behind’ over GM food, Cameron says
Europe risks being "left behind" after one of the world's biggest genetically modified crop companies confirmed it is effectively pulling ...
Taiwan: Transgenic wood-eating pigs would cut waste
Tunghai University professor Cheng Teng-kuei, known as Taiwan’s cattle cloning pioneer, is working on splicing genes from cellulose-digesting microbes in ...
Kloor: Green America takes on GE
As if the meaning of “natural” wasn’t already overly twisted for ideological and commercial purposes. Check out this campaign recently launched ...
Anti-GE activists force Naked Juice to drop ‘All Natural’ label
Some companies have begun voluntarily alerting us to the presence of GMOs in their products. In most cases, companies go ...
Resistance to ag biotech: The importance of distinguishing between weak and strong attitudes
The following is an edited excerpt. In 2012, a record 17.3 million farmers grew biotech crops on 170 million hectares ...
Monsanto to drop all requests for new GM crops in EU
The following is an edited excerpt. US seed producer Monsanto has said it would withdraw all new requests to grow ...
Brazil is the world’s second largest GE producer
The following is an edited excerpt. Brazil is the second largest producer of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the world, ...
Science Resources that support biotechnology and GMO in food
Where can I find solid information resources on biotechnology, genetically modified organisms, and the seemingly endless list of science issues ...
Don’t let critics derail GE advantages
The Central Valley is the hotbed of California's agricultural output, producing over $13 billion worth of food products each year, ...
“Organic” is one of the most confusing labels, report says
The label “organic” is one of the most confusing for consumers, says a new report by the Natural Foods Merchandiser ...
10 reasoned responses to “10 reasons we don’t need GMOs”
You may have run across this article “10 Reasons We Don’t Need GM Foods” on the FoodConsumer website. It’s been ...
European scientists warn of dangers of “Precautionary Science”
Eighteen scientists recently weighed in on the unscientific and dangerous nature of the so-called "precautionary principle" in the July issue ...
UK: Ordinary laboratory animals are outnumbered by GM counterparts for first time
The following is an edited excerpt. The number of genetically modified (GM) animals used in scientific research in Britain has ...
Modifying Africa 10 years on: is public opinion shifting?
It's over a decade since I ghost-wrote Modifying Africa for well-known Kenyan biotechnologist Florence Wambugu. At the time the book ...
Pakistan: Farmers seek biotech corn for high yield
Farmers of corn growing areas have reiterated their demand to approve genetically modified corn for commercial plantation in Pakistan because ...
GMOs and the American Chestnut: Risky Business?
How far out on a limb would you go to bring back an icon of the American forest? First, a ...
You can put lipstick on a pig (GE feeding study), but it still stinks
The following is an edited excerpt. The tiny cadre of anti-biotechnology activists who reside in the scientific community are perverting ...
Can ‘Frankenfish’ survive politics?
The following is an edited excerpt. Sometime this summer or soon after, the federal Food and Drug Administration may finally ...
