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.
USDA concerned about sugar shortage as demand soars for non-GMO sugar
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Department of ...
Survey says consumers don’t understand GMOs, but transparency may ease anxiety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: A recent survey ...
Indian researchers developing new insect resistant GMO cotton varieties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Central Institute of ...
African scientists work to improve cassava using sophisticated genomics breeding
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Staple foods of the ...
Dr. Mercola offering $250,000 matching grant to support radical factions of the organic industry’s anti-GMO efforts
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This week [February 22], ...
Colorado activists seek ban on GMO beets, corn grown on Boulder County land
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Boulder County, Colorado's open ...
Like them or not, ‘China needs GMOs’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. China has a fifth ...
Gerber claims baby formula contains no GMOs but here’s the complicated truth
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On February 10th, Gerber announced that its ...
Campbell’s affirms GMO safety, says ‘transparency’ drove decision to begin voluntary GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While acknowledging bioengineered food ...
Can probiotic seed coatings for plants increase crop yields?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A startup launched [in ...
Agricultural industry weighs in on Senate draft GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Establishing a national framework ...
Nassim Taleb calls Reason’s Ronald Bailey an ‘idiot’ after backing out of GMO debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . [A]nti-GMO alarmist ...
Senate draft bill would pre-empt state GMO labeling laws
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) ...
Are claims that organic crops use carcinogenic pesticides ‘Food Babe tactics?’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The new headline circulating ...
Nassim Taleb ducks out of debate on GMO safety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nassim Taleb. . . NYU ...
To show consensus, over 1,500 plant scientists sign petition saying GMOs are safe, effective
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 1,000 scientists ...
EPA will require seed companies to investigate, respond to Bt corn resistant rootworms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Environmental Protection ...
Univ of Florida’s Kevin Folta’s former students shocked at distorting attacks on him
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The year 2015 witnessed ...
Are GMO labeling advocates compromising on readable bar code and delaying VT labeling law?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [In mid-February], we were ...
Oregon House passes bill to label GMO salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Oregon House [February ...
Is ‘a good story’ more important than facts for GM scientists looking to communicate with consumers?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Of all the tools ...
GMO corn no more susceptible to Goss’s wilt disease than non-GMO corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Transgenic crops expressing resistance ...
AquaAdvantage salmon aren’t only GM fish, hatchery raised trout show genetic changes too
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers with Oregon State ...
WA Attorney General sues Grocery Manufacturers Association over state GMO labeling campaign
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Washington Attorney General’s ...
Is future of UK farming eco-friendly GMO crops and lab grown meat?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UK agriculture will have ...
Is GMO labeling really about a ‘right to know’ or part of an effort to get rid of GMOs entirely?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food Policy writer Julie ...
FDA plans to begin testing foods for glyphosate residues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Food and ...
