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.
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 ...
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 ...
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” ...
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 ...
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) ...
With Vermont’s GMO labeling law taking effect in 80 days, biotech leaders head to D.C.
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [B]iotech industry representatives headed ...
USDA to overhaul regulatory process for biotech crops to incorporate advances in gene editing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . Improved ...
Agricultural biotechnology subject to increasing economic espionage threats
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Tim Burrack, a northern ...
Mandatory labels necessary? Phone apps, non-GMO project already help consumers avoid GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When polled, 89 percent ...
UK farmers worry that deauthorization of glyphosate could impact cereal crop production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Industry leaders are asking ...
Burkina Faso phasing out GMO cotton temporarily, but not giving up on biotechnology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Burkina Faso made headlines ...
Barriers to supplement distribution make ‘biofortified’ crops better solution to malnutrition
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. That's the title of ...
Vermont’s GMO law has ‘turbo boosted’ demand for imported non-GMO sugar cane
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A push by some ...
After escape from field trials, Oregon wants USDA to keep a lid on GMO bentgrass
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Although we generally support ...
Vermont prepares to enforce GMO labeling law, will target ‘willful violations’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As Vermont is set to become ...
Are gene banks doing enough to conserve genetic diversity of our food crops’ wild relatives?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More needs to be ...
In research, does conflicts of interest mean scientific misconduct?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We need to talk ...
Argentina approves new GMO corn with four traits for insect, pesticide resistance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: This post ...
