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.
Nassim Taleb ducks out of debate on GMO safety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nassim Taleb. . . NYU ...
To show consensus, over 1,500 plant scientists sign petition saying GMOs are safe, effective
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 1,000 scientists ...
EPA will require seed companies to investigate, respond to Bt corn resistant rootworms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Environmental Protection ...
Univ of Florida’s Kevin Folta’s former students shocked at distorting attacks on him
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The year 2015 witnessed ...
Are GMO labeling advocates compromising on readable bar code and delaying VT labeling law?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [In mid-February], we were ...
Oregon House passes bill to label GMO salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Oregon House [February ...
Is ‘a good story’ more important than facts for GM scientists looking to communicate with consumers?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Of all the tools ...
GMO corn no more susceptible to Goss’s wilt disease than non-GMO corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Transgenic crops expressing resistance ...
AquaAdvantage salmon aren’t only GM fish, hatchery raised trout show genetic changes too
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers with Oregon State ...
WA Attorney General sues Grocery Manufacturers Association over state GMO labeling campaign
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Washington Attorney General’s ...
Is future of UK farming eco-friendly GMO crops and lab grown meat?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UK agriculture will have ...
Is GMO labeling really about a ‘right to know’ or part of an effort to get rid of GMOs entirely?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food Policy writer Julie ...
FDA plans to begin testing foods for glyphosate residues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Food and ...
Public-private partnerships bring agricultural biotech to Africa’s small scale farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Daniel Kamanga, Director of Communication ...
Tanzania to begin confined trials of drought, pest resistant GMO maize
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At last Tanzanian scientists ...
Presidential candidates largely ignoring food, farm policy. What should we ask them?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 2016 presidential election ...
India discovers difficulties of importing only non-GMO corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As India prepares to ...
Senate waiting on GMO labeling bill proposal from Kansas Senator Roberts
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The wait is still ...
Do researchers need to engage, teach consumers more in GMO debate?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The lack of progress ...
Lawmakers ask EPA to reconsider approval of Enlist Duo herbicide
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Thirty-five members of Congress ...
What’s more problematic than a Seralini paper? A plagiarized version of it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A 2012 paper co-authored ...
Philippines government scrambles to rewrite biotech regulations as deadline looms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A legal challenge to ...
We need all our tools to feed world in face of climate change, booming global population
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Growth in world crop ...
New GMO rice could fight iron, zinc deficiencies in developing world
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A transdisciplinary group of ...
Iowans say they trust FDA most on GMOs, but buying behavior says otherwise
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Eighty-two percent of Iowa ...
Milk: Not good source of omega-3 fatty acids, even when organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I have had a ...
Indian media criticizes government for moving slow on GMOs, cites success of crops in Bangladesh
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Although India commercialised its ...
