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.
Bees on crop fields collect ‘astonishing number’ of pesticides used by nearby homeowners
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Purdue University study ...
Congress demands EPA explain why it’s delaying ‘final’ report finding glyphosate safe
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Two congressional committees — ...
Ugandan farmers losing potatoes to blight anxious for GMO, disease-resistant variety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Stephen Tindimubona planted an ...
Kenyan MP: EU’s draft bill on GMOs ‘intended to make Africa remain in subsistence farming’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. MPs have criticised a ...
Critiquing anti-biotech scientist Jonathan Latham’s ‘GMO Dangers’ claims
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]his article entitled ...
German politics threaten EU approval of glyphosate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. German government squabbling could ...
Why don’t we have GMO oats?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. So, why are there ...
Bayer CEO invites environmental groups to discuss planned Monsanto takeover
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bayer's chief executive said ...
Monsanto’s anti-aging technology could prolong life of fresh flowers, reduce waste
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto is working on ...
Changes in gene expression suggest plants may ‘feel’ touch
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. By and large, most ...
Vitamins going GMO free
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Consumers wanting to know ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
