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.
Presidential candidates largely ignoring food, farm policy. What should we ask them?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 2016 presidential election ...
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 ...
Philippines government scrambles to rewrite biotech regulations as deadline looms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A legal challenge to ...
India discovers difficulties of importing only non-GMO corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As India prepares to ...
Senate waiting on GMO labeling bill proposal from Kansas Senator Roberts
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The wait is still ...
Do researchers need to engage, teach consumers more in GMO debate?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The lack of progress ...
Lawmakers ask EPA to reconsider approval of Enlist Duo herbicide
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Thirty-five members of Congress ...
What’s more problematic than a Seralini paper? A plagiarized version of it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A 2012 paper co-authored ...
New GMO rice could fight iron, zinc deficiencies in developing world
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A transdisciplinary group of ...
Iowans say they trust FDA most on GMOs, but buying behavior says otherwise
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Eighty-two percent of Iowa ...
Milk: Not good source of omega-3 fatty acids, even when organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I have had a ...
Indian media criticizes government for moving slow on GMOs, cites success of crops in Bangladesh
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Although India commercialised its ...
‘War on science’: Reality or counterproductive phrase?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For several years now ...
We need all our tools to feed world in face of climate change, booming global population
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Growth in world crop ...
Is western opposition to genetically modified animals hurting developing nations?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We need to double ...
Iowa State students protest trials of GMO banana developed to combat Vitamin A deficiency
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On [February 15], a ...
What factors drive Europe’s superior tasting vegetables?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . Why ...
Australian ‘GMO contamination’ case over: High Court rejects organic farmer Marsh appeal, Baxter exonerated
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The High Court has ...
Indian government approves field trials of high yield, disease resistant silkworms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a first, the ...
French winemaker drops organic certification to be more eco-friendly
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A winemaker in France's ...
Did Newsweek’s ‘scare’ piece on alleged glyphosate dangers just repeat anti-GMO talking points?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Environmental Working Group, ...
Hershey’s GMO-free candy will hurt American farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Exciting news, candy lover! ...
Will GMO labeling, ‘consumer preference’ drive up cost of non-GMO food?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The movement to label ...
Genetic engineering could improve rice’s drought tolerance in face of climate change
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Jane] Langdale, a professor of ...
Agricultural Secretary Vilsack: Up to Congress to resolve GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The biotech labeling negotiations led ...
Russia to ban US imports of soy, corn over fears of GMO contamination
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Russia has banned import ...
