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.
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 ...
Anti-GMO groups criticize Nigeria’s permits for GMO cotton, maize
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Federal Government will ...
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 ...
How worldviews translate into attitudes towards GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Studies of how our ...
Sen. Stabenow will propose new, compromise GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) ...
GMO canola, cotton increased profit, reduced pesticide use by Australian farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Australian farmers produced an ...
India’s proposed GMO trait licensing rules ‘will hurt Indian seed industry, farmers’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . On ...
Farmers switch to organic corn makes economic sense even though yield lags
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hippies and anti-GMO zealots ...
Non-browning GMO varieties can improve post-storage quality of produce like apples, potatoes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I recently toured several ...
Azerbaijan prohibits use, import of GMO tea, grain
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Azerbaijan is set to ...
FDA says Whole Foods not adequately responsive to listeria, dripping pipes at MA facility
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Food and Drug ...
Kenya moves closer to legalizing GMO crops with drought-resistant GMO corn trial
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Kenyan ...
Mandatory GMO labeling bill introduced in Canadian Parliament
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An MP has tabled ...
GMO rice strain yields more, requires less fertilizer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A strain of genetically ...
Organic industry distortions about GMOs means public opinion battle not over
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . The ...
Australian GMO report shows reduced pesticide use, carbon emissions, increased farmer incomes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic farming and genetic ...
Monsanto, Argentina reach deal on GMO soybean royalties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto Co. and Argentina’s ...
Scientists aim to genetically tweak photosynthesis in rice, increase yield by 50%
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. C4 photosynthesis is so ...
On USDA decisions to allow CRISPR-edited crops to forego additional regulation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The first CRISPR-edited crops ...
Farm association urges farmers to respond to Clif Bar’s ‘insulting’ anti-GMO video
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It saddens me to ...
National Academies GMO report is open access, identifies funding sources
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Josh Lancette: . . . ...
