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.
Roundup-resistant bees seized in Illinois, sparking legal controversy
The following is an edited excerpt. The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, ...
Research on GE salmon and trout ignores that offspring are sterile
The following is an edited excerpt. The authors used fertile AquAdvantage(R) Salmon and mated them with brown trout in the ...
Ghana approves transgenic cotton trials
The following is an edited excerpt. The Ghana National Biosafety Committee has granted approval to conduct trials of Genetically Modified ...
Unapproved GE wheat found in Oregon
The following is an edited excerpt. Unapproved genetically engineered wheat has been discovered in an Oregon field, a potential threat ...
UK supermarkets give green light to GE animal feed
The following is an edited excerpt. Last month three U.K. supermarkets admitted publicly that it was impossible to guarantee that ...
Science is laughing at the anti-GE movement
The following is an edited excerpt. It is time to come clean about something that is deeply troubling to me. ...
GE purple tomato may help to fight cancer
The following is an edited excerpt. British scientists have created purple tomatoes that appear to protect against cancer The GM ...
Transgenics could head off ‘the end of orange juice’
The following is an edited excerpt. Recent coverage in the national news media is reporting the very real possibility of ...
On genetically engineered food, let the market decide
The following is an edited excerpt. The movement to force the labeling of genetically engineered food is gaining momentum. Federal ...
Biotech meets DIY hacker culture in Seattle
The following is an edited excerpt. Right now it's a storeroom filled to the ceiling with cardboard boxes and cast-off ...
Australia: When GMO bans are lifted, premium green brands will suffer
The following is an edited excerpt. Lifting Tasmania's ban on genetically engineered crops would devastate producers relying on green branding, ...
Anti-GMO marches stumble
The following is an excerpt. Protesters with a group calling itself “March against Monsanto Coachella Valley” staged rallies in Indio ...
Don’t Fear GM Crops, Europe!
The following is an edited excerpt. Researchers have genetically modified crop plants to grow well in harsh environments where conventional ...
Philippines: Court stops field testing of GM eggplant
The following is an edited excerpt. The Court of Appeals has stopped the nationwide field testing of genetically modified eggplants ...
GM foods and Jewish law: A Rabbi’s perspective
The following is an edited excerpt. As our knowledge of our world broadens and through science we come to new ...
Court rules in favor of GE alfalfa
The following is an edited excerpt. Barring a major legal reversal, it appears that genetically engineered alfalfa is here to ...
Why the “March on Monsanto” hurts the hungry
The following is an edited excerpt. May was March-on-Monsanto month. An array of celebrities, ranging from Danny DeVito to Dave ...
Debunking ‘the big lie’ about genetically engineered crops
The following is an edited excerpt. Anti-GM activists will be out in full force on Saturday (25 May) for the ...
BASF, Monsanto to launch drought tolerant GM corn in 2014
The following is an edited excerpt. BASF and Monsanto plan to commercially launch a drought-tolerant variety of genetically modified corn ...
Gorillas and the future of crop biotechnology
The following article is an edited excerpt. There are some really cool improvements coming along in several crops that have ...
Indonesia: Drought-resistant sugarcane plantation being developed
The following is an edited excerpt. The National Genetically Modified Product Biosafety Commission (KKHPRG) recently approved the first genetically-altered sugarcane ...
Hungary’s anti-science regime destroys all GMO corn fields
Hungary has destroyed 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds. Unlike many European Union ...
Biotech crops risky to consume, says former pro-GMO scientist
A decade after retiring from his job as a research scientist at Agriculture Canada, Dr. Thierry Vrain, a former promoter ...
Australia: “GMO-free” certification launched
The following is an edited excerpt. A new certification body for genetically modified organism free (GMO-free) foods has been launched ...
How genetically modifying chestnuts could bring them back
The following is an edited excerpt. Around the turn of the 20th century, the forests in the eastern U.S. were ...
Nutritionally enhanced biotech soybeans blocked by activists
The following is an edited excerpt. Monsanto has joined forces with DSM to commercialize a genetically engineered soybean oil rich ...
Pathogen genome tracks Irish potato famine back to its roots
The following is an edited excerpt. The great potato famine of the 1840s was a defining event in Ireland’s recent ...
