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.
Argentina, Monsanto finalize agreement on GMO royalties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto Co. and Argentina ...
House committee questions EPA about leaked glyphosate report
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The EPA report that ...
Organic seed in short supply due to cost of production, intellectual property rights
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new report . . ...
India set to approve GMO mustard for commercial release
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The central regulator on ...
Would Brexit benefit GMO prospects in UK?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ask almost any scientist ...
Pakistani scientists urge government to cut bureaucracy, allow for ‘biotech crops’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A panel comprising Pakistani scientists ...
Days before Vermont law goes into effect, Senate is getting close to GMO labeling deal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said late ...
Genetic modification of salmon ‘nothing to fear’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The public tends to ...
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 ...
Plant pathologist Steve Savage discusses issues with, myths about organic food
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In this episode of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
