Daily Food & Agriculture 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.
Crop breeding must speed up to keep up with climate change
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Crop yields will fall ...
Human genetic evidence suggests agriculture invented twice
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Two Middle Eastern populations ...
Philippine government sets up new inter-agency group to regulate GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Five government agencies will ...
Is best way to dispel GMO myths to label foods containing them?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .[I]t is ...
Robert Saik discusses upcoming documentary project ‘Know GMO’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Robert Saik is an agriculture ...
IARC’s reassessment of coffee illustrates problems with its process, messaging
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [B]y ...
West African countries eye Burkina Faso’s success with GMO cotton
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Burkina Faso’s ...
Can we finally make gasoline out of corncobs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .Take ...
Boston Globe calls Massachusetts GMO labeling bill “worst bill of all”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [H]ere’s ...
Wheat aphid infestations in South Australia reignite debate over GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The discovery of the ...
USDA quietly opens door to CRISPR crops, starting new era of agricultural biotechnology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. USDA quietly opened the ...
Herbicide glyphosate facing ban in Europe? Here’s a backgrounder
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's hard to find ...
Why we should be concerned that WHO’s IARC reversed course on coffee’s carcinogenicity
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organization’s ...
Fortune’s video quiz on Monsanto: Separating truth from fiction
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto is perhaps the ...
Fruit and vegetable industry feeling heat of anti-GMO attacks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Clif Bar Family ...
Bad karma hits leading anti-GMO companies–Whole Foods, Clif Bar, Chipotle?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [T]here are three companies ...
Sleuthing bacteria DNA in food
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Personal injury litigation over ...
Federal court weighs appeals of overturned GMO bans in Hawaii counties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fight over regulating ...
How worldviews translate into attitudes towards GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Studies of how our ...
Sen. Stabenow will propose new, compromise GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) ...
GMO canola, cotton increased profit, reduced pesticide use by Australian farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Australian farmers produced an ...
India’s proposed GMO trait licensing rules ‘will hurt Indian seed industry, farmers’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . On ...
Anti-GMO groups criticize Nigeria’s permits for GMO cotton, maize
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Federal Government will ...
FDA says Whole Foods not adequately responsive to listeria, dripping pipes at MA facility
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Food and Drug ...
Kenya moves closer to legalizing GMO crops with drought-resistant GMO corn trial
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Kenyan ...
Mandatory GMO labeling bill introduced in Canadian Parliament
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An MP has tabled ...
Farmers switch to organic corn makes economic sense even though yield lags
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hippies and anti-GMO zealots ...
