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.
Banning GMO feed would destroy Polish poultry industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nowadays, the most important ...
Michael Pollan’s approach to food anything but simple, moderate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If [Michael] Pollan’s approach ...
It’s practically impossible to define “GMOs”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Debates rage over what ...
Opposition to GMOs is about corporations, not technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The positions of major ...
Vilsack will attempt to hash out GMO labeling before VT law takes effect in July
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The food industry, consumer ...
Hershey opts out of sugar from GE beets citing consumer demand for non-GMO products
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Increasing concern over genetically ...
While attempt to save American chestnut through cross-breeding flagging, GMO seeds expect to be ready in 3-5 years
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. New Hampshire is home ...
Australian, New Zealand food regulators soon to decide if gene-edited crops are GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Australia's food regulator, Food ...
House of Lords says UK has ‘moral duty’ to test disease-preventing GMO insects, enraging opponents
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Britain should challenge "woefully ...
Gatorade jumps on organic marketing bandwagon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gatorade is the leading ...
CRISPR edited bacteria hold great potential for cultured foods, probiotics, list goes on
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The on-going CRISPR craze ...
Did 2015 mark start of ‘transparency paradigm shift’ for Big Food?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Today’s big food and ...
Consumer comfort with GMOs linked to which companies thought to make them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The December 2015 edition of ...
Omnibus spending bill does not include GMO labeling, blocks sale of GM salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A sweeping $1.1 trillion ...
Much protested Thai bill to grow, regulate GMOs killed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ...
The next big food safety technology could be from this ancient root
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What if our next-generation, futuristic ...
Nobel laureate Sir Richard John Roberts: ‘Opposition to GMOs by greens appalling’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetically modified food is ...
Dow-Dupont merger creates agricultural giant
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. chemical titans Dow ...
Gene editing protects pigs from untreatable virus, without adding foreign DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This latest [genetic engineering] ...
Eating your veggies may be good for your health, not for the planet
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Contrary to recent headlines ...
Chef Tom Colicchio: ‘Let consumers make their own choices. Label GMOs’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Tom Colicchio is a ...
Tropicana’s non-GMO label ‘is marketing, not transparency’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. PepsiCo’s Tropicana Pure Premium ...
Philippine’s ban on GMO eggplant a defeat for science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. THE DECISION by the ...
European researchers in limbo waiting for EU’s decision on whether CRISPR plants are GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plant geneticist Stefan Jansson ...
Chipotle in ‘fiasco vortex’ after multiple food safety problems
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . For at ...
Decisions about neonicotinoids should be ‘science-driven not ‘activist-driven’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Neonicotinoid pesticide use is ...
Scientists have discovered wheat gene that provides resistance to fungal diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have sequenced and ...
