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.
Farmed GMO salmon key to survival of endangered wild salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Like many other recreational ...
Anti-GMO, organic movement exploit ‘sancti-mommy’ scare strategy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The idea that GMOs, ...
As demand for beef grows, China faces choice between imported or cloned cows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Remember when eating sustainably meant ...
Study: Crop biotechnology essential to feeding more people on same arable land
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .Looking at ...
Soil degradation reducing arable land, biotechnology may be part of solution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The world has lost ...
‘SmartLabels’ not good enough for GMO critics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Proponents of mandatory GMO ...
Chicago Tribune report claims EPA approved Dow 2,4-D herbicide after changing safety estimate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For use on its ...
Finnish research shows ‘no immediate impact’ of neonicotinoids on bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this press release to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Research conducted in Finland ...
Controversial scientist Goulson challenged on study claiming neonicotinoids cause butterfly declines
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. University of Sussex biology ...
Using CRISPR to edit crops ensures no transgenes, undercuts key anti-GMO ‘foreign gene’ criticism
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this press release to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A team of scientists ...
GMOs critical for Australia to expand agri-food exports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If Australia wants to make ...
Environmentalist opposition to AquaAdvantage salmon ‘irrational, self-contradictory’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The FDA just approved ...
Beta carotene-fortified potatoes paving way for biofortified African cassava
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The humble potato has ...
Dizzying definitions: Consumers tell FDA what ‘natural’ food means to them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The FDA will have ...
Here’s how to do GMO labeling so everyone wins
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What would it look ...
Fish story: Salmon eaten in US modified even before genetic engineering
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As strange as the ...
Monsanto to go carbon-neutral by 2021, in part by leveraging low till GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto Co. plans to ...
For science to carry more weight in GMO debate, it needs to be more transparent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The larger problem in ...
Media paint modern agriculture as ‘boogeyman,’ but science disagrees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In some circles, there ...
Western Australia to begin trials of GM medflies in attempt to control pest
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. West Australian researchers are ...
GMO rice dramatically reduces farm greenhouse gas emissions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A slight change in ...
Drought stricken Indian state of Maharashtra looks to GM sugar cane to preserve crop
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists of a sugar ...
USDA urges alternatives to antibiotics for livestock health
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Antibiotics are lifesavers. We ...
Is Big Organic guilty of ‘Merchants of Doubt’ behavior?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Is Exxon Mobil’s behavior ...
New York Times reverses position, now supports mandatory labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In approving genetically engineered ...
EU rules for GMO opt-out may open door to case-by-case approvals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In what follows we ...
Scientist who created genetically engineered salmon didn’t think he’d live to see it approved
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. He didn’t believe it ...
