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.
Unraveling five popular anti-GE claims
The following is an edited excerpt. The mainstream scientific community, specific science organizations and the scientific literature converge on the ...
India: Ag minister makes strong pitch for GE crops
The following is an edited excerpt. A strong pitch for genetically-modified (GM) crops revived again with agriculture minister Sharad Pawar ...
British attitudes to GE crops are still divided
The following is an edited excerpt. According to a Farmers Weekly survey, a majority (61%) of farmers in the UK ...
South Korea to decide on U.S. wheat imports this week
The following is an edited excerpt. South Korean millers will decide this week whether to lift a ban on U.S ...
GE comes to the fashion world
The following is an edited excerpt. 'Genetically modified' (GM) has been associated for a long time with food. Now scientists ...
Wild genes block growing rust threat
The following is an edited excerpt. Researchers have identified two genes in ancient varieties of wheat that could combat a ...
Video: Pro-GE rally encircles Hilo, Hawaii government buildings
The following is an edited excerpt. A group comprised of a number of agricultural businesses, united in their opposition to ...
GE can reduce gas output from cattle
The following is an edited excerpt. A growing population and greater wealth will mean more demand for meat in developing ...
Natural News advocates eco-terrorism against GE sugar beets
The following is an edited excerpt. It appears as though some Americans may finally be waking up to the grim ...
Are egg and milk allergies linked to GE foods? Scientists answer
The following is an edited excerpt. With food allergies on the rise, there's no shortage of concern about what is ...
Farmers weigh in on GE crops, part four
The following is an edited excerpt 4. Do you see GM seed in your sustainable farming future? Even if you’re ...
Be a good kid and eat your GE vegetables
The following is an edited excerpt. Foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMO) are called a lot of things, but ...
GMOs in Italian artisan foods: Traditions impacted by biotech?
The following is an edited excerpt. Parmesan cheese and other beloved Italian food exports give the issue of genetically modified ...
Qatar: Pioneering genetic research on date palms
The following is an edited excerpt. Pioneering genetic research on date palms is progressing at the Qatar University Farm, located ...
Some sanity on genetically engineered foods
The following is an edited excerpt. Will wonders never cease? The British newspaper The Guardian has reported the sobering news ...
China approves Monsanto’s drought-tolerant trait
The following is an edited excerpt. The drought tolerance trait in Monsanto’s DroughtGard® hybrids recently received final import approval from ...
Who’s polarizing the GE debate? Greenpeace
The following is an edited excerpt. I love this piece in the Guardian about GMOs, I really do. It’s so ...
Geneticists compare genomes of wild and domestic tomatoes
The following is an edited excerpt. You say tomato, I say comparative transcriptomics. Researchers in the U.S., Europe and Japan ...
UK: After environment minister’s call for GM adoption, farmers say they must see market acceptance
The following is an edited excerpt. Farmers in the UK have welcomed the call for a fresh debate on genetically ...
Be a good kid and eat your GM vegetables
The following is an excerpt. Foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMO) are called a lot of things, but “healthier” ...
Iowa farmer: GE and science will heal the earth
The following is an edited excerpt. Despite two decades of planting GMOs that hasn’t inflicted a single human illness, has ...
Ag biotech offers ‘significant economic and environmental gains’ to Ukraine
The following is an edited excerpt. A new assessment of the potential impacts of using existing commercialised crop biotechnology in ...
Choice of Monsanto betrays World Food Prize purpose
The following is an edited excerpt. In honoring the seed biotechnology industry, this year's World Food Prize -- to many, ...
Genetic modification could stop wheat rust epidemic
The following is an edited excerpt. Sr35 has been identified as a gene that enables resistance to a new race, or ...
GE seafood: Love it or hate, you gotta label it
The following is an edited excerpt. Whether genetically modified (GM) seafood ever makes its way into your favorite U.S. fish ...
UK Deputy Prime Minister: We should be cautious about GM food
The following is an edited excerpt. Nick Clegg, the deputy Prime Minister, said he had not "knowingly" fed his children ...
Uganda: University ag lecturer lobbies against country’s biotech bill
The following is an edited excerpt. For Uganda to embrace Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) is a recipe for disaster for ...
