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.
Use of GM to produce sterile male insects
Scientists at a British company have been able to genetically modify the Diamondback moth, one of the world’s most damaging ...
California voters to decide on GMO labeling
The California Secretary of State's office has announced that the Right to Know initiative to label genetically engineered foods will ...
Russia to allow GMOs in order to enter WTO
As Russia aims to join the World Trade Organization, it is sweetening the deal by offering to drop its restrictions ...
Germany to oppose easing of GM trace rules
Germany will oppose any European Union move to allow traces of unapproved genetically-modified (GM) organisms in food in a similar ...
Why genetically modified corn in Pakistan?
Biotechnology, an evolution of traditional agricultural methods and the fastest adopted crop technology in history, is not new to Pakistan ...
Italy: GMO field to be destroyed after being authorized 14 years ago
An experimental field of GMO plants, authorized in 1998 in Italy, is going to be destroyed during the next few ...
India: Move on GM crops provokes massive protests
The environment ministry's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee — meant to regulate GM crop release — has been hit with a ...
Africa: Gov’t takes measures to increase cotton production
The Government of Ghana has pledge its commitment towards the increment of cotton production in the country. To this end, ...
Should we label genetically modified food?
States--including California and Vermont--are considering laws that would require that genetically modified foods be clearly labeled on the packaging. Nationwide, ...
EU plans to let traces of unapproved GMOs in food
Tiny amounts of unapproved genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be permitted in food imports to the European Union under draft ...
U.S. House biotech proposal would bypass courts-critic
A provision in a U.S. House bill would allow farmers to grow genetically modified crops while court battles are under ...
Anti-GM group find drought-resistant GM corn lacking
The Union for Concerned Scientists (UCS) said the only genetically altered corn approved by regulators and undergoing field trials in ...
Nigeria: ‘Genetically modified foods safe for humans’
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) says consumption of Genetically Modified (GM) foods will not pose any threat to human ...
Campaign to label biotech foods a waste of time and money, says GM supporter
Occasionally you just have to stop and ask yourself what the public has against scientific progress; especially when it comes ...
Creator of drought-tolerant corn says value is to be determined by farmers
The makers of the first corn genetically modified to be tolerant of drought said they are confident it will prove ...
Monsanto opposition criticizes Obama for leading company to Africa
Last week President Barack Obama announced a plan that puts Monsanto, as well as other large argi-businesses, in charge of ...
Genetically modified crops are, indeed different says GM critic
In the recent article in the Des Moines Register, “Ag critics called threat to economy” (April 6), Paul Shickler, Pioneer ...
GM corn needs bigger refuges to slow pest resistance
Genetically modified crops that produce insect-killing proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have reduced reliance on insecticide sprays since ...
Senate says GM salmon don’t need more testing, says Organic Consumers Association
Despite strong lobbying from northwestern senators for a measure that would require more testing of genetically engineered salmon before it's ...
Researcher to unravel mysteries of hot chile
A graduate student in New Mexico is setting out to unlock the genetics of the state’s signature crop – the ...
Roundup Ready beets move closer to deregulation
A U.S. Department of Agriculture statement issued Friday marked another step that could fully deregulate Roundup Ready sugar beets, potentially ...
Scientists take shot at Monsanto’s drought tolerant corn
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has issued a report saying that Monsanto's new drought-tolerant corn, DroughtGard, might not yield ...
A turning point for GM crops in the EU?
It's not a big secret that many Europeans are afraid of new, cutting-edge technologies. Microbiologist Dr. Anne Glover, the very ...
Unraveling the corn genome
Corn has come a long way in 8,000 years, and genetic progress is poised to accelerate further as scientists gain ...
GM crops imperative to improve agri productivity
The agriculture experts and scientists have termed the adoption of modern agricultural technology vital to improve the productivity of agriculture ...
Device picks up GM fruit contaminates
The production and commercialization of of genetically modified (GM) crops is still a relatively new technology that was adopted to ...
GM food, war metaphors and the perils of political entrenchment
Over a decade ago ago I wrote a few articles on cloning and GM, GMOs, genetic engineering, genetically modified foods ...
