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.
University punishes Italian researchers for manipulating data that showed dangers of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: The original ...
I’m a farmer and I signed a contract with Monsanto
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I’m a family farmer, and ...
Scientist who pioneered genetic engineering gave away his discoveries for free
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ending hunger, conserving the ...
Synthetic biology discovery could turn agricultural waste into sustainable spandex
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers at the University ...
In GMO debate, what’s worse? Biased scientists or uncritical media?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The headline on the ...
Lawsuit against Chipotle over GMO-free advertising is dismissed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chipotle dodges non-GM class ...
Are there only two types of GMOs: pesticide producers and herbicide resisters?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A 2013 documentary claiming ...
Does media give anti-GMO groups free reign to spread pseudoscience?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. To put it simply, ...
New Hampshire, Rhode Island to consider GMO labeling legislation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This could be a ...
Burkina Faso’s Bt cotton not meeting expectations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The inferior lint quality of Bt ...
New generation of GMO crops signals pivotal moment for global acceptance and food security
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The development and judicious ...
Are gene-edited crops GMOs? EU’s decision will shape future of biotechnology revolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .In ...
Australian farmers breed cows that produce more milk but less greenhouse gas emissions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Australian Breeding Values (ABVs) ...
What did Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott miss in recent Golden Rice piece?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: Alexander J ...
What Campbell’s GMO label means for ‘food label war’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Campbell's], . . ...
Congress stalled on GMO labeling with Vermont law going into effect soon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The food industry is ...
EWG Verified: Anti-GMO Environmental Working Group rolling out big bucks food scare label
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The strange thing about ...
Indian government deliberating on GMO mustard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After a meeting of ...
Food movement not as small as Washington Post’s Tamar Haspel argues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In her latest column ...
USDA seeks public comments on range of alternatives to current biotech regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Department of ...
Organic farming methods may outproduce conventional during droughts
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It turns out that ...
Will the Zika crisis, genetically engineered mosquitos change minds about GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's official: The World ...
CRISPR gene editing could help researchers build plants with stronger immune systems
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists are now filling ...
ChemChina’s purchase of Syngenta may open door for other GM seed companies in China
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. ChemChina can reap the ...
Genetic modification could offer solutions to crop loss from droughts in South Africa
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Modifying plants to be ...
Organic growers and pro-GMO activists find common ground in race to save citrus
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There's a grove of ...
What is stopping African nations from adopting GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A collection of views ...
