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.
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 ...
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 ...
ChemChina’s bid for Syngenta reflects China’s need for agricultural biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. China National Chemical Corp ...
How will consumers react to products labeled GMO, eco-friendly?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to the the ...
Are neonicotinoids in foods affecting our health?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Neonicotinoids. . . have been ...
Whatever happened to golden rice?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. "This Rice Could Save ...
Video: How do scientists make GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetics. It's all rather ...
Farmers need more options to conquer herbicide resistant weeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There are two things ...
India’s biotech industry looks to help boost African agriculture
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the last year ...
Despite November approval, FDA bans import of GM salmon until labeling resolved
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
Monsanto announces support for federal labeling of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto, a global provider ...
Genetically engineered plants could act as ‘biosensors’ of pollutants
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Synthetically engineered biosensors, which ...
Romania tests disease resistant GM plum trees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: This article ...
Pakistani business leaders blame poor crop yields on insufficient use of biotechnology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The business community of ...
Chobani ad that likens Yoplait yogurt to bug spray banned by federal judge
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A federal judge has ...
After Monsanto declined his $10 million stunt, anti-GMO activist Ayyadurai challenges Clinton
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Rock and roll scientist ...
Investors find GM cassava unattractive, despite potential benefits for farmers, society
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genomics, an emergent technology dealing with ...
CRISPR offers opportunity for society to re-define GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .Can ...
Should we praise or demonize artificial foods?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Artificial food. That’s what ...
Researchers use gene editing to create pig resistant to incurable porcine disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Tucked away in a ...
EU risk scientists: Long term GMO feeding studies provide no regulatory value
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The EU-funded GMO Risk ...
Scientific consensus: GMOs pose no health risks but full potential not yet realized
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There’s. . . a ...
Improving crop yields necessary to save biodiversity, lower greenhouse emissions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Expansion of land area ...
Uganda’s first field trial of blight resistant GMO potatoes successful
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The first field trial ...
GMO labeling advocates reject proposed electronic labels in meetings with Vilsack
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Details are finally trickling ...
China will promote agricultural GMO technology, mandatory GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [D]eputy ...
