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.
Failure to consider GMO’s effects on society, environment impede crop’s success
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . GMOs ...
Putting GMOs in context of addressing world hunger improves public’s acceptance of them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...
Scientists failure to understand GMO opposition hindering technology’s progress
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . On ...
Is press largely responsible for public perception of biotechnology?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The human population is ...
Synthetic biology could be bigger than computer technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [E]conomic ...
Effects of Vermont’s GMO labeling law seen on store shelves
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the last week ...
How will GMOs be labeled if Senate’s bill becomes law?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What does the Senate’s ...
Could tobacco soon fuel jets by tweaking crop’s genetics?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [F]irst-generation ...
Senate passes GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Senate easily approved ...
Bernie Sanders attacks Senate backers of GMO labeling bill on Twitter
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fight is over ...
NYT: Senate’s labeling bill allows companies to hide GMO information from consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Senate is expected ...
Survey shows VT’s GMO labels mislead consumers, affect purchasing decisions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A survey of 1,665 ...
Scotts Miracle-Gro glyphosate-resistant GMO grass utilizes less fertilizers, grows twice as fast
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists inside Scotts Miracle-Gro ...
Fear, confusion block acceptance of potentially life saving GMO goat milk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .[S]cientists ...
Protestors arrested after throwing cash into Senate chamber during GMO labeling vote
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Senate advanced a ...
TV interview: Organic industry backs mandatory GMO labeling to scare consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food policy expert, Julie ...
Understanding genetics of woody plants could aid development of biofuels
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Large, fast-growing poplar trees ...
Chemist explains why organic labels are about marketing, not chemistry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . ...
Debunking Naturally Savvy’s ‘Top Ten Reasons to Avoid GMOs’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A few days ago, ...
Mexican farmers impatient for approval of GMO soybeans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers in the state ...
India neglecting investment in improved crops, biotechnology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Budget 2016 contained ...
GMOs illustrate problem of false balance, junk science in media
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 100 Nobel ...
Food manufacturers pulling 3,000 products from VT due to GMO labeling law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Vermont's first-in-the-nation GMO labeling ...
What would we lose if we gave up GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Greenpeace calls GMOs "genetic ...
Caveats to consider about the Senate’s GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Senate agriculture leaders have ...
Many environmentalists dismiss best way to reduce pesticide use– GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. But what really catalyzed [Walter ...
Jon Entine urges farmers to tell their stories, not let anti-GMO activists define narrative
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mainstream agriculture is under assault ...
