Daily Food & Agriculture Digest
Why focus on ‘natural’ is a dangerous obsession
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plenty of foods for ...
Gene editing upends traditional notion of what is a GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [T]he term “GMO” is ...
Kenyan biotech scientists opposed to turning oversight to politicians
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology experts have opposed ...
US food system challenged by complexity of GMO issue
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food is inherently complicated ...
Post GMO era: EU faces defining moment in regulating gene editing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Last month, a non-browning ...
Democratic legal scholar Cass Sunstein says his party has blind spot when it comes to science of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Democrats pride themselves on ...
Heralded NAS GMO study’s major flub: Dense regulatory web unaddressed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [M]ost important, the [most ...
Endocrine disruption fears overheated, say top independent scientists
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A meeting was held ...
Bangladesh poised to introduce slew of new GMO crops later this year
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over 5,000 farmers would ...
GMO opponents so ‘disgusted’ with GMOs that evidence will never change their minds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As the psychologists Sydney ...
Bayer takeover of Monsanto no sure thing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto wants more green ...
Why did US beekeepers lose almost half of all honeybee colonies in 2015?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. "Beekeepers lost 44 percent ...
More than 80 percent of consumers believe foods with GMOs and DNA should be labeled
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Brandon McFadden, an assistant ...
Are product reformulations due to threat of GMO labeling laws affecting sugarbeet demand?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sugarbeets are in the ...
Are Western ‘supermarket-based superstitions’ holding back farming advances in Africa?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you drive through ...
Syngenta, now Monsanto: What is behind wave of buyouts in seed and chemical industry?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. WHEN DuPont and Dow ...
With National Academies’ GMO report, is debate concerning safety to humans over?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Last week, the prestigious ...
Monsanto CEO: We need all hands on deck to feed world’s growing population, including GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The world’s agricultural industry ...
Chicago Tribune: ‘Basic’ GMO label will not help consumers make informed purchases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [...] On Tuesday, the ...
Bayer’s deal to buy Monsanto may face scrutiny back home in Germany
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bayer faces a backlash ...
End of Monsanto? Bayer could change name if deal to buy company is completed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bayer AG’s proposed $62 ...
Farmers, not politicians or corporations, must lead debate on GMOs to gain public trust
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Speaking at the annual ...
Royal Society: Europe needs to rethink policies on GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Prof Venki Ramakrishnan said ...
Observer editorial: Europe can no longer turn its back on benefits of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For a generation, a ...
Indian government caps companies’ royalty fees for GM seeds, adds other restrictions on sales
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Indian government has ...
Washington Post: Giving in to fears about GMOs will hurt poorer parts of world
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. ...Overblown worries nevertheless continue ...
Indian farmer: GM cotton has provided numerous benefits for farmers’ lives
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I am able to ...