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.
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 ...
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 ...
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Are crop innovations sitting on shelf because of outdated GMO laws?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 ...
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 ...
Environmental Working Group does not support Senate’s GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For a variety of ...
Vermont’s GMO labeling law doesn’t apply to lucrative cheese industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This month, a contentious ...
GMO labeling law makes kosher food harder to find in Vermont
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Vermont's GMO labeling law ...
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 ...
