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.
Anti-biotech food activists’ drive for mandatory labeling takes a double hit
Opponents of agriculture biotechnology have been loudly hailing the certification of a mandatory genetically enhanced food labeling ballot initiative in ...
USDA seeks comment on nine biotech crops in bid to speed reviews
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking public input on nine new genetically modified crops developed by companies such as ...
Agricultural biotechnology to develop genetically-engineered plants
Genetically modified mosquitoes are the newest ammunition against the worldwide fear of dengue fever. Brazilian scientists are ready to release ...
Controversial horse cloning alters Summer Olympics equestrian outlook
For fans of equestrian sports, the very existence of clones holds out the possibility of a game-changer. It won’t be ...
Salt-tolerant chickpea project to boost crop production
Researchers at The University of Western Australia, in collaboration with research partners overseas, have identified which lines of chickpea grow ...
Salt cress genome yields new clues to salt tolerance
An international team, led by Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, and BGI, the world's largest ...
A greener way to raise cotton and combat nematodes
Richard Davis, a plant pathologist with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Tifton, Ga., and his colleagues are hunting for ...
Seeking a splice for better rice
A research team led by Kazuki Saito and Fumio Matsuda of the RIKEN Plant Science Center in Yokohama has begun ...
Biotech riders in proposed Farm Bill stir controversy
Critics of agricultural biotechnology say that genetically engineered crops can be harmful to human health and to the environment. They ...
Is it now time for GM?
2012 is the 16th year in which commercial GM crops have been grown and incorporated in feedstuffs. Since the introduction ...
Foodies mobilize against effort to speed GM approvals
Buried in the House Agriculture Committee's farm bill, approved yesterday after a 15-hour markup, is a provision that will speed ...
GM crops on the rise in Portugal
The growing of genetically modified (GM) corn in Portugal increased by 59 percent last year, being planted in 7,724 hectares ...
GMO labeling measure receives prop number for November ballot
California’s Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act will be on November’s ballot as Proposition 37, according to proposition numbers ...
Discoverer of DNA says yes to genetically modified food
Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, credited for the landmark discovery of the structure of the DNA, says "genetically modified foods ...
USDA speeds release of data on biotech crops
The USDA is speeding up the public release of data about genetically engineered crops submitted by biotech developers. Under the ...
Anti-GMO groups protesting farmer assurance
Organizations that are anti-biotech are throwing a fit over the “farmers assurance provision” that was included in the House of ...
Drought scorches much of US corn crop, but plant technology could still provide huge harvest
Almost a third of the nation’s corn crop has been damaged by heat and drought, and a number of farmers ...
Banana genome sequence will aid crop improvement
Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of the banana, an important crop in developing countries that provides a fruit widely ...
New study shows GM crops tend to perform better than conventional
A paper published by Areal, Riesgo and Rodriguez-Cerezo in the Journal of Agricultural Science showed that genetically modified crops cultivated ...
A costly California food labeling proposal
The state of California is all but bankrupt–yet professional activists have figured out a way to send us even further ...
Can biotechnology solve China’s food security problem?
When talking about agriculture in China, you are likely hear two statistics over and over again: China is home to ...
Are there any proven health risks associated with biotech food, articles helping to explain the confusion
Helping readers navigate the confusing controversy ...
UK: Green Food Project opens door to GM science
The government has committed to an industry-wide debate about genetically modified (GM) foods ...
Turks refusing to eat GM food, says Greenpeace poll
Some 83 percent of Turkish people are against consuming food from genetically modified (GM) organisms, according to a survey by ...
Projecting agricultural impacts of climate change, can GM crops help?
In a summer like this, as we watch crop conditions wither in record-setting heat and dry conditions, we might wonder ...
Rice lands on the radar of GMO researchers
On most GI charts, as illustrated on the Harvard Medical School website, the GI score for rice is an average ...
The issue that won’t go away: Farm biotechnology
Covering farm technology means being on the scene with ag biotech too. From the first days of tomatoes that had ...
