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.
Do international NGOs push anti-GMO agendas on India, ignoring its actual environmental crises?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Two weeks ago, six ...
Scientists document natural transfer of DNA between insects and trees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Very few cases of ...
Israeli scientists genetically modify banana to extend shelf-life
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It seems that it ...
RNA interference technology may help stop citrus greening disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Nabil] Killiny, an assistant ...
Euractiv science blogger says he was censored for his views on glyphosate, IARC
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A provocative blog post ...
DuPont Pioneer plans to market gene-edited CRISPR corn, USDA will not regulate it as a GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a letter released ...
Does milk from cows fed genetically engineered food need GMO label?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Warren Taylor grew up ...
GMO maize still banned in France despite court overturning 2014 law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. France's top administrative court ...
State GMO labeling laws may lead to deluge of other process-related food labels
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Manufacturers of chocolate, pet ...
U.S. importing more livestock feed as demand for organic eggs, meat, milk increases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. America may export more grain ...
Vermont may use ‘bounty hunters’ to enforce GMO labeling law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Private litigants, or so-called ...
Investigation: Scientists say IARC’s cancer classifications on chemicals, food scare consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over four decades, a ...
More educated likely to support GMO science, poll shows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many Americans still believe, ...
USDA will not regulate gene-edited CRISPR mushroom that resists browning
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The US Department of ...
Consumer review: Central Florida local organic restaurants fall far short of sustainability hype
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you eat food, you ...
Ugandan scientists say prohibitive laws deter innovation as Parliament drafts GMO regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A principal state attorney ...
Kevin Folta: ‘Voluntary labels are the solution’ to GMO labeling battle
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the last few ...
China announces plans to grow more varieties, increase acreage of GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. China intends to plant ...
In 2015 worldwide acreage of GMO crops declined for first time since crops first commercialized
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The world’s farmers have ...
Nigeria’s Environment Minister: Agricultural biotechnology will boost economy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Minister of Environment, ...
Despite dozens of trials, India’s biotech crops remain ‘stymied politically’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .[A]fter a ...
European Parliment votes in favor of reauthorizing glyphosate but limits approval for 7 years
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Parliament has ...
Is shifting from GMO sugar beets to sugar cane detrimental to environment?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Last week it was ...
Unexpected consequences of labeling GMOs: Loss of vitamins, introduction of allergens
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. 1. Labeling is “expensive” ...
BBC: Anti-GMO activist complaints about Bt brinjal documentary were ‘without merit’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The BBC has dismissed ...
Are GMO crops a ‘quick fix’ that perpetuate unsustainable agriculture?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The rational response to ...
OK Sen. Inhofe asks EPA to be ‘mindful of science’ in neonicotinoids review
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) ...
