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.
Decision due on GM potato trial
Sir, – It’s not often these days that one finds oneself in agreement with virtually anything said by a government ...
Court battle for GM buffer zone
Steve Marsh, of Kojonup in Western Australia, lost his organic certification for almost 70 per cent of his 478ha farm ...
GM corn and sick honey bees – what’s the link?
No farmer in their right mind wants to poison pollinators. When I spoke with one Iowa corn farmer in January ...
India loses faith in GM cotton
Ten years after it was introduced to India, genetically modified cotton is not living up to its promise. It is ...
The upside of Frankenfood: Can GM crops reduce global food insecurity?
Last month, when I summarized the views of Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development at Harvard, on ...
Researchers showcase ‘easy’ GM tracking technology
A new technology could help to monitor and track genetically modified crops in the food processing chain, say researchers ...
Green fuel is possible with artificial ecosystems
Algae could become an important source of sustainable biofuel, as production doesn't compete with food crops for land. But we ...
Busy beekeepers
“The role of the backyard beekeeper is extremely valuable,” said Serge Labesque, one of the North Bay's most knowledgable beekeepers, ...
Kenya: The GM debate is more than about biosafety
This month, after almost a decade of intense debate, Kenya is expected to become the third country in Sub-Saharan Africa ...
Monsanto’s deep roots in Washington
Love it or hate it -- and there are plenty of people on either side -- the company controls much ...
GM crops still far from mass cultivation
Genetically-modified (GM) maize has yet to be grown en masse as there is still a requirement for tests if the ...
Balancing needs and fears in the GM crop debate
On Wednesday's Today programme a spokesman for the Rothamsted biologists doing the "urging" (Scientists send video plea to anti-GM crop ...
Octopus genes may foretell climate rise problems
Now, genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus reveals that this may have happened at some point in the not-too-distant past ...
A chance to move the GM debate on
Will something come of it after all? On Tuesday, crop scientists at one of Britain's leading agricultural centres pleaded with ...
Genetically modified food labels legislation fails in Connecticut
A key Connecticut lawmaker says efforts to enact state legislation requiring labeling of genetically modified food died in the face ...
Why GM crops are a moral necessity
Professor of international development at Harvard, Calestous Juma has called on Africa to form an "International Institute for Biotechnology" that ...
GM critics in Malyasia on attack
Contrary to national interest, Or hopelessly flawed. Take your pick. Whatever your choice, in what is billed as the Great ...
Turkey’s biosafety law causes heavy losses to agri-food chain
According to the new Economic Impact Assessment by British consultant Graham Brookes (PG Economics), Turkey’s biosafety law has had a ...
Why is the Gates Foundation helping Monsanto push GMOs?
Monsanto and the Gates Foundation claim genetically modified crops will revolutionize agriculture in Kenya, but critics warn the technology is ...
Consumers trust food biotech, industry survey says
The International Food Information Council (IFIC) 2012 "Consumer Perceptions of Food Technology & Sustainability" survey shows that Americans remain highly ...
Frankenfoods at Whole Foods Market grocery causes dispute
Even in a city full of people working for Monsanto, virtually everyone wants labels on food with genetically modified organisms ...
Tanzania: Call for review of GMO rules
SOME stakeholders in the cotton industry have demanded the strict liability clause in bio-safety regulatory framework to be removed to ...
Grant will help scientists uncover hidden soybean genes
Soybeans are the world's largest single source of vegetable protein and edible oil, already used to make livestock feed, soymilk, ...
Molecular genetics helps ‘undress’ mutton
Under the supervision of Murdoch agricultural scientist Professor David Pethick, he borrowed an idea from molecular genetics to test the ...
GM food worm its way penetrating Vietnamese market
In April 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) informed that there had been no final experiment result ...
Africa: Global and national resistance to GMOs
Our focus in this presentation is on modern biotechnology in crops and animal species. Traditional biotechnology is as old as ...
Scientists now raise fears on safety of GMOs
Dr Lubano Kizito of the Kenya Medical Research Institute said the human health is crucial and thus safety issues that ...
