Daily Food & Ag 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.
Are GMOs better solution for feeding world’s poor than shipping them West’s surplus food?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
India will listen to anti-GMO activists, but make science-based decision on GMO mustard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Moving ahead with the ...
Vancouver, Canada bans neonicotinoid pesticides
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A hotly-debated class of ...
Was GMO labeling a waste of Congress’s time?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [S]elf-serving ...
Israeli biotech startup plans to produce lab-grown chicken meat
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An Israeli biotech startup ...
Gene-edited food already in U.S. market, not labeled as GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Products made possible through ...
Bayer increases bid for Monsanto
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bayer AG has raised ...
House passes GMO labeling bill, President expected to sign it in current form
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a victory for ...
Sen. Murkowski says GMO labeling bill would not mandate GMO label for salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Prior to the final ...
President Obama ready to sign GMO labeling bill if passed by House
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The White House plans ...
House to vote on GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The House is expected ...
Nature: With labeling debate over, time to focus on more pressing biotech issues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [In early July], the ...
Herbicide resistance predates GMOs by 40 years, say weed scientists
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. You may think weeds ...
Patagonia’s film about sustainable food avoids discussion of GMO solutions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Outdoor gear giant Patagonia ...
Sanders’, activists’ anti-corporate views on GMOs ‘obscuring a level-headed approach’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
Independent academic study finds GMOs not major factor in Indian farmer suicides
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In India, it is ...
Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen pesticide food list designed to promote organics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an [Environmental Working ...
Scannable GMO labels could provide information regarding sustainability, pesticide use
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I believe in transparency in ...
Popular misconceptions about GMOs, labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
Are crop innovations sitting on shelf because of outdated GMO laws?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Getting a new genetically ...
Polarization on GMOs prevents Chile from adopting consistent, reasonable regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: This excerpt ...
Anti-GMO movement began more than 30 years ago with Jeremy Rifkin
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
VT law made GMO labeling inevitable, Senate version is reasonable compromise
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . [I]t ...
House likely to vote on GMO labeling bill before July 15 recess
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agriculture and food groups ...
How scientists can use celebrity culture to engage public
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Dr. Mehmet Oz and ...
Is Congress’s GMO labeling bill full of PR headaches for biotech industry?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I am now convinced ...
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 ...
