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.
Debate not settled, but food companies resigned to labeling GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Vermont will not implement ...
Study finds dramatic local economic benefits to organic agriculture, surprising researchers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a report produced ...
‘Refuge-in-a-bag’ corn seed mixes may be accelerating Bt resistance in insects
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers love "refuge-in-a-bag" (RIB) ...
EU Parliament says intensive agriculture, GMOs in Africa are ‘mistake’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For a large majority ...
Privatization, consolidation of agricultural technology, not GMOs, threaten food security
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .There ...
Russian scientists ask for partial lifting of GMO production ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Russian Academy of Sciences ...
Nigerian farmers object to EU making GMO decisions for them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We (a group of ...
Bangladesh farmers’ video: Bt brinjal requires no pesticides, higher yields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bangladeshi farmers discuss their ...
Prof Stefan Jansson video: No line separates GMO and non-GMO plants, foods
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetically modified (GM) plants ...
Protein discovered in rice improves nitrogen efficiency, increases yields up to 54 percent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In collaboration with researchers ...
African farmers confront climate change with genetically improved seeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Less than 30 percent ...
European Greens block African use of GMOs, fertilizers, pesticides, threatening innovation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [On June 8], the ...
Senior agricultural scientist: India should drop GMO testing moratorium
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology is the future ...
GMO-free dairy products: ‘Differentiation based on fear, ignorance’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
Did personal biases at EPA influence IARC glyphosate review? US lawmakers want to know
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. lawmakers are investigating ...
Monsanto scientist: GMO crops increase rate of yield gain, media misinterpreted NAS report
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On May 17, the ...
Demonizing corporations not effective way to change their practices
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . People ...
Former FDA Commissioner equates GMO labeling with ‘science denialism out of fear’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Those opposed to mandatory ...
False claims of Burkina Faso abandoning GMO cotton threaten support for African crop biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Last year. . ...
Food sustainability expert says organic crops no healthier, have lower yields, waste land
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic food is not better than ...
How Monsanto, one of the world’s most vilified companies, could be crucial in feeding it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Is it ...
Cows fed GMO feed do not produce GMO butter
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Does your butter actually ...
Startups, Big Ag betting soil microbes will bring next agricultural revolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. David Perry believes the ...
Non-browning, GMO Arctic Fuji apple awaiting approval by FDA, USDA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After 20 years of ...
Food and farming trade disruption looms as EU again postpones glyphosate renewal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After failing twice to ...
EPA’s atrazine risk assessment draws criticism from agriculture groups, Syngenta
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An EPA draft document assessing ...
Farm groups say EPA’s atrazine report could lead to ‘effective ban’ of popular herbicide
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
