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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Beets root of fuel source
A biofuel company hopes plots of high-sugar “energy beets” will fuel an ethanol project ...
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 ...
Advanced techniques could propel crop improvement
Scientists could take greater strides toward crop improvement if there were wider adoption of advanced techniques used to understand the ...
Romania and GMOs: An anti-GMO stance for Romania
Let us first state that this is not an anti-genetically modified organisms article. Given the right biotechnology, at the right ...
GMO mosquitoes saving lives in Brazil
When it comes to life or death, genetically modified organisms win out over leaving the environment untouched, and those with ...
Call to push GM crops to boost farm output
The need for the application of new technologies to increase farm output and seed yields, including genetically modified crops, was ...
Yak genome provides new insights into high altitude adaptation
Scientists have completed the genomic sequence and analyses of a female domestic yak, which provides important insights into understanding mammalian ...
France’s Le Foll to keep biotech-crops ban, Le Monde says
French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll wants to keep the country’s moratorium on existing genetically-modified crops, Le Monde said, citing ...
Cloned meat, milk as safe as traditional: EU Food Agency
Europe's food safety regulator said Thursday that food products like milk and meat from cloned farm animals are just as ...
GM food protest
SPORTING bakers' hats, aprons and wooden spoons, a coach-load of Totnes residents joined a national protest in Harpenden, Hertsfordshire, against ...
Canada: Growers say survey shows consumers oppose GM
Orchardists in Okanaga say they have all the evidence they need to fight the introduction of GM fruit. A national ...
GM food labelling poses many questions
While the new Labelling and Adver- tising of Foodstuffs Regulations (GN R146), which came into effect in March, is offering ...
