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.
Labeling GMOs not equivalent to nutritional labels, will be costly
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the fight over ...
USAID to support development of Simplot blight resistant potato for Asia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. J.R. Simplot Co., in ...
EU assembly votes against proposal allowing members to opt out of GMO imports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Union assembly ...
Top Twitter influencers in GMO-organic debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We were very interested ...
Halloween trick? Challenges to ‘deeply flawed’ sugar scare study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new study claims that ...
Ghana faces biotech research, funding crisis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dr. Marian D. Quain, ...
Subway’s phase out of meat raised with antibiotics smart, kowtowing to activists not always wise
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Subway, the sandwich chain, ...
Tanzania to start confined field trials of drought-resistant GMO maize in 2016
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Tanzania plans to conduct ...
Congressman, professor argue organics promotes sustainable sustainability
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organization’s ...
Need baseline risk to understand meat or other cancer scares
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you paid attention ...
Google search engine bias promotes scare views of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Misinformation has become a ...
Chipotle touts its GMO-free food, remains silent on sustainability practices
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chipotle is getting heat ...
How Europe is starving Africa by blocking GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is estimated that ...
Omega-2 oil squalene may soon be produced in biotech tobacco rather than extracted from sharks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For years, the coveted ...
Antioxidant producing GMO tomatoes could lead to inexpensive medicinal compounds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Just one of the ...
International Agency of Research into Cancer (IARC) is ‘confusogenic to humans”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The International Agency of Research ...
WHO’s IARC: Red meat is as ‘dangerous’ as glyphosate (and 476 other carcinogenic threats)
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organization's ...
Ecomodernism embraces GMOs, unites moms of different political stripes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Can we move past the ...
Organic and conventional farmer walk into a bar…
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. People are becoming less ...
Biotech advocates misjudged depth of distrust of corporations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What’s most puzzling to ...
Europe’s “coalition of the ignorant” opposes GMOs, hurt poorer countries
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Call it the “Coalition ...
GMO cassava could alleviate B6 deficiency in developing nations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In sub-Saharan Africa, cassava ...
CRISPR poses challenges to regulators of traditional crop biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The genome editing technique ...
Bt cotton not to blame for Indian whitefly epidemic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Widespread damage to cotton ...
Audit: USDA regulators don’t consider past non-compliance when approving biotech field trials
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. USDA’s biotechnology regulators don’t ...
Journalists face own conflicts of interest challenges in covering controversial science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In my recent article ...
European Food Safety Authority challenged to educate public on nuances of GMO risk analysis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In most cases, the European ...
