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.
India GMO debate: Mustard poses no health or biodiversity risks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since transgenic mustard began ...
These vitamin-fortified bananas might get you thinking differently about GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the winter of ...
Pakistan approves GMO corn, will pursue other GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The agri-business sector, reacting ...
Indian biotechnology regulators defer decision on import of GMO animal feed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The environment ministry has ...
Small food companies in New Hampshire feel pressure of Vermont’s GMO labeling law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genuine Local, the Meredith-based ...
As Big Food starts labeling products containing GMOs, will there be an effect on sales?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While food makers previously ...
FactCheck: Alaska Sen. Murkowski spreads false claims about GMO salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski ...
Is GMO labeling a scare tactic?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. To be considered organic, ...
GMO labeling: Is it really about consumer choice?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently the Senate failed ...
First U.S. commercial-scale producer of cellulosic ethanol is shipping fuel
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Poet Inc., the nation’s ...
Restrictions on GMOs, consumer demands could lead to higher food prices in Canada
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food prices are up ...
Modern food technologies let us choose to spend time in the kitchen, or not to
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to a new ...
Iowa’s Sen. Grassley: Syngenta’s takeover by ChemChina could threaten U.S. food security
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. opposition to the ...
Kellogg will begin labeling products containing GMOs in April
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Kellogg Company — whose ...
Pesticide phobia: Everyday foods filled with (unharmful) pesticides
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While the perilous p-word ...
Philippines to allow GMO crops, Filipino farmers describe impact of biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Filipino farmers can now ...
Ugandan scientists develop wilt resistant GMO banana, field trials this year
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Crop scientists at National ...
Iowa Sen. Grassley: GMO labeling deal “unlikely” before VT law goes into effect
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sen. Chuck Grassley said ...
ConAgra, owner of Hunt’s, Healthy Choice, will label products containing GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. ConAgra Foods Inc on ...
Canada approves for sale non-browning, low acrylamide potato created using the New Breeding Technique RNA interference
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Health Canada and the ...
Australian organic farmer Marsh who sued for GMO contamination must pay Baxter $800k for court costs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A West Australian farmer ...
In Canada, many ‘non-GMO’ labels violate country’s labeling standards
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The challenge is we ...
Chronic exposure to neonicotinoid pesticide has no adverse effect on bumblebees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In recent years, many ...
Bayer board member says GMOs have ‘lost the debate in Europe’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bayer board member Kemal Malik ...
Indian seed companies: GMO cotton price control will hurt investment in development
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The latest row over ...
Vermont’s GMO labeling law causing increased costs, confusion for food makers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The country’s first law ...
Pesticides, fertilizers derived from microbes offer new frontier in agriculture
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chemicals are out. With ...
