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.
Researchers ‘evolve’ new Bt toxin that could fight insect resistance to GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops ...
Varroa mite parasite, viruses linked more closely to honey bee health, multi-year survey finds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Honey bee colonies in ...
Consumer attitudes towards GMOs: Concerns about who benefits, why GMOs are used
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Professor Rachel Ankeny is ...
Dannon yogurt to label GMO ingredients, shift to non-GMO feed at dairies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The nation’s leading yogurt ...
Crop losses due to disease cost Uganda hundreds of millions, biotech could help
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Due to climate change ...
Jayson Lusk: Polling shows consumers want FDA, not Congress or voters, to decide GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My research shows that ...
Organic Consumer Association invokes chemical scares in suing organic infant formula maker
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chemjobber put me on to this ...
Ugandan biotech students express concern over delay in passing biotechnology bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dear Mr Matia Kasaija, ...
Editorial: Anti-GMO greens sacrifice kids in developing world in quest to ‘keep food natural’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The left can be ...
Farm subsidies have potential to incentivize conservation practices in ‘Big Ag’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This month, I set ...
Researchers suggest GMO oilseed crop led to deformed butterflies, critic questions study design
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .Scientists at ...
Are romantic notions about organic agriculture harming the environment?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is one of ...
GMO maize expected to be commercialized in Kenya in 2018
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Insect-resistant Genetically Modified (GM) ...
Should EU regulate CRISPR crops based on modification process or final product?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .Which of ...
China’s policy on GMOs may soon get more permissive
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After years of fierce debate ...
Cornell researchers find glyphosate herbicide unlikely source of Monarch butterfly decline
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the face of ...
New York Times offers lesson plan for schools on CRISPR gene editing in animals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: The following ...
Kenya’s Catholic Cardinal promotes organic farming, claims GMOs bad for health, environment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cardinal John Njue asked ...
EPA finds neonic seed treatments safe for most crops, but questions remain about cotton, citrus
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Environmental Protection Agency, ...
European commission plans to relicense glyphosate for 10 years according to leaked proposal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European commission is planning to ...
With no clear legal definition, non-GMO claims legal minefield for food marketers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An order from a ...
U.S. approves CRISPR mushroom, corn, but Britain unsure how it will regulate import
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. American regulators have allowed ...
Is the problem really GMOs or overpopulation?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UCLA's Institute of the Environment ...
Judge rules Food Democracy Now guilty of concealing donor names in 2013 GMO labeling campaign
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An anti-GMO organization violated ...
U.S. soybean growers frustrated by EU’s delay in approving new GMO soy feed crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The American Soybean Association ...
NRDC plays scary Agent Orange card about 2,4-D herbicide found safe by regulators
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There has been a ...
Vermont asks court for access to industry’s internal studies on GMO safety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A key player in ...
