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.
Sustainable impact of biotech crops
A review of available scientific evidence about genetically modified (GM) crops clearly indicates their benefits for environmental sustainability and managing ...
Bt cotton demonstrates biotech’s potential, says expert
Bt cotton has delivered significant benefits to all members of the agricultural value chain in the country, and has contributed ...
GMOs: “Frankenfood” or “better living through chemistry?”
GMO’s are a touchy topic, mostly because of the affiliations of the people who do the arguing. People who have ...
Scientists dash hopes for dinosaur cloning
Well this might put a crimp in Steven Spielberg's plans to make "Jurassic Park IV." A team of scientists in ...
GM food: We can no longer afford to ignore its advantages, says pro-GM supporter
Given the crises facing the planet, with the population set to reach the 9 billion mark by 2050 and increasing ...
Texas firm cloning horses used in competitions
Video: Scientists cloned the first animal in 1996. Since then a number of businesses have grown, including a Texas company ...
South African consumers to have GM labeling
The African Centre for Biosafety reports that South African consumers have just won a hard-earned victory, regarding the labelling of ...
Ghana to begin GMO testing
Confined Field Trial (CFT) of three genetically modified crops may start next year, according to Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Ibrahim ...
Spanish farmers embracing GM crops
Acceptance of genetically modified food in Spain reached such an extent that growers in Catalonia planted a higher proportion of ...
Top Indian science panel backs GM crops
A top scientific panel of the government has favoured introduction of more genetically modified crops in the country under strict ...
Prop 37 voter guide has confused voters and misrepresented our position, says Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The official voter information guide on California’s Proposition 37 GMO labeling initiative inaccurately states that the Academy of Nutrition and ...
Lawyer: Prop 37 will overtake Prop 65 as a source of consumer litigation in California
Prop 37 is likely to surpass Prop 65 as a source of consumer litigation in California if the controversial GMO ...
Ireland’s potatoes in GM trial spared from late blight infection
The genetically modified (GM) potatoes undergoing trial in Ireland show no sign of late blight infection and grow quite well ...
What is transgenic biotechnology all about?
Today’s genetic engineering processes, especially those used on food crops, are the subject of much contentious debate. Much of that ...
An Indian smallholder farmer speaks out: “Allow us to embrace biotechnology”
In 2009, I traveled from India to Des Moines to attend the Global Farmers Roundtable, a project of Truth about ...
India: Will GM crops “cripple” traditional forms of farming?
In what can be a disturbing trend, agriculture experts observe that after having introduced Bt cotton successfully in the state, ...
Biotechnology is not all about foods only: What are the other applications?
Biotechnology is not all about foods only. There is much more in store for future of mankind. Even if we ...
Anti-GMO activists urge labeling GM foods in Ontario
As more and more evidence continues to come forward which suggests that genetically modified organisms may have adverse health effects ...
Uphill fight waged to turn back Prop 37, says pro-GM supporter
Vote no on California’s Prop 37. Most of you will. However, we are likely to be on the losing end ...
Australian perspective on Seralini affair
By now, you may have heard that eating genetically modified (GM) corn causes cancer. That alarming news is based on ...
Transgenic grains: Incentive measures for banning GMOs in all of Europe?
The debate about the possible harmful effects of GM foods came roaring back after a French scientific research linked the ...
Genetically engineered in California: A food label we don’t need, says pro-GM supporter
From “food miles” to farmers’ markets, it seems that consumers have never been more interested in the ways their food ...
Insects shape the genetic landscape through plant defenses
The new study, involving aphids and the broccoli-like research plant Arabidopsis thaliana, provides the first measureable evidence that this selective ...
Is the world ready for a GMO tomato?
If you would have posed that question to University of Florida tomato breeder Jay Scott back in the 1990s, he ...
Prop. 37 bad for farms, economy and families, says pro-GM supporter
Agriculture is the largest industry in California, and as a long-time Santa Maria farmer, I am deeply concerned about provisions ...
Reality check: Anti-Proposition 37 ad is partially misleading
What's the charge? Henry I. Miller, a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution who was founding director of the Food ...
Indonesia: Transgenic products safe, say scientists
After a French researcher published an alarming study on genetically modified crops, Indonesian scientists say they will scrutinize research from ...
