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.
What Democrats can learn from reformed anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas
British environmentalist Mark Lynas was an early advocate against GMOs and, as he tells it, that meant he was an ...
GM food: British public ‘should be persuaded of the benefits’
The British public should be persuaded of the benefits of genetically modified food, the environment secretary will tell the UK's farming industry on ...
Oregon farmers hope to ban GM crops
Supporters of a local ban on genetically modified crops filed signatures with the Jackson County clerk on Wednesday in Medford ...
GM maize ban lifted in Russia
A temporary ban on GM maize has been lifted in Russia. The ban was put in place in September last ...
India’s GM labeling law suffers from ‘lack of planning’
On New Year's day, India joined a select band of countries where food containing genetically modified (GM) content must be ...
Label-It-Yourself activists should be prosecuted
GM labeling activists are not waiting for government-mandated labeling. Vigilantes are going through the aisles of supermarkets and applying their own ...
GM labelling comes to India
On the New Year’s day India joined a select band of countries in the world which have mandated labeling of food containing ...
Backlash in Latin America against genetically modified food
Are genetically modified crops “Franken-foods” or the answer to global hunger and climate change? That is the dilemma dividing Latin America, ...
The GMO industry: Corporate hijacking of food and agriculture
Science has become a political football. Anyone who questions the safety of GMOs is “clueless” and indulges in “scare mongering” ...
Banning GM foods: Is it ethical to deny a hungry child a meal because of theoretical risks?
In declaring a sweeping ban on all genetically modified products, the government unwittingly invoked the Hyderabad Declaration made during the ...
Governments must defend GM crops against the naysayers
People everywhere are increasingly vulnerable to the use of what Nobel Prize-winning chemist Irving Langmuir dubbed “pathological science” – the ...
New Mexico considers GMO labeling amendment
“The premise of this amendment is simple – New Mexicans deserve the right to know what's in the food they ...
GM salmon could hurt Alaska’s commercial fishermen
Kenai River angler Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was railing against "Frankenfish'' again on Friday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave a green flag ...
Obama’s Science Commitment, FDA Face Ethics Scrutiny in Wake of GMO Salmon Fiasco
Will the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy’s John Holdren investigate the White House after violations of the Executive Office guarantee ...
Genome of Chinese plum provides hope of improved fruit
A Chinese research team, led by Beijing Forestry University, BGI, Beijing Lin Fu Ke Yuan Flowers Co., Ltd, and other ...
Patents and trademarks: My plants broke the law
Patents and trademarks: My plants broke the lawThe Idaho StatesmanDistinctiveness has always been a potential bone of contention, especially since ...
Anti-GMO movement should follow the money instead of wasting its time on labels
Over the past several years I have spent a great deal of time in high-security, limited-access genetic modification laboratories. While ...
Is Obama kowtowing to anti-biotech activists?
Reason (blog)Is Obama Kowtowing to Anti-Biotech Activists?Reason (blog)For the past 17 years, AquaBounty Technologies has been doggedly pursuing Food and ...
Something fishy in the White House?
Emily Anthes, science writer and author of the upcoming book about biotechnology Frankenstein's Cat, responds to Jon Entine's piece about the ...
Lessons from Prop 37 — the future of genetic engineering in agriculture
To me, the bread and butter of GM will be control of plant diseases. Control of plant diseases are not ...
Food movement needs to follow the money, not waste time on labels
Over the past several years I have spent a great deal of time in high-security, limited-access genetic modification laboratories. While ...
Bats evolved to fix DNA from damage caused by flight
[N]ow, thanks to our ability to sequence genomes, some researchers have provided a new picture of how bats manage to ...
GMO apples inflame Washington label debate
Source – Capital Press By Dan Wheat Date – Dec 19, 2012 Website – www.capitalpress.com The president of a Canadian ...
Connecticut has ‘no need’ for GMO food label
No Need For 'Frankenfood' LabelHartford CourantProviding consumers with the facts is a good idea. But the fight against genetically modified ...
Cotton genome offers clues for fiber improvement
al.comUnraveling the Threads: Simplest Cotton Genome Offers Clues for Fiber ...Science Daily (press release)Aside from the DOE JGI, the University ...
Appeals court rules transgneic beet challenge moot
Capital Press (subscription)Appeals court rules biobeet challenge mootCapital Press (subscription)A federal appeals court has refused to revive a lawsuit filed ...
Indiana farmer challenges Monsanto before Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a 75-year-old soybean farmer from Indiana is liable to Monsanto Co. in a ...
