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.
Everyone can participate in Biology Fortified’s GMO Corn Experiment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Do squirrels and other ...
Is Monsanto’s focus on crop biotechnology backfiring?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Pity Monsanto, the genetically ...
BASF teams with Monsanto in developing super-long high-yield corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since their introduction in ...
High tech agriculture and Big Data could yield farm bonanza
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the second millennium, ...
Gene modification does not destroy ‘natural’ food system, could promote organic farming
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Traditional breeding changes the ...
Leftwing defense of industrial agriculture: Best way to protect animal welfare
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Legislating [animal welfare] from ...
Nature Biotech: US Right to Know, Organic Consumers are “demagogues”, “anti-science zealots”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Smear campaigns against those ...
CRISPR gene edited food headed for dinner plates?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agricultural biotech giants are ...
What TPP means for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The TPP opened North ...
Australian GMO ‘contamination’ battle won’t end in with High Court review
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Supporters on both sides ...
GMO technology that saved Montana’s sugar beets now tarnishing their reputation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Montana's sugar beet industry faces ...
Being anti-GMO ‘doesn’t make you anti-science’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Pro-GMO rhetoric has increased ...
Some speculate glyphosate leading to deer population decline as corn fields get less weedy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Whitetails have thrived in ...
Soylent meal replacement drink embraces GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “PRO GMO”. In Hollywood, ...
Autism and health fears lead families to abandon science, find scapegoat in GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When doctors diagnosed their ...
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute to begin field trials of Golden Rice
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Upon completing a successful ...
Argentina approves GMO disease resistant potatoes, drought tolerant soy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Argentina is negotiating with ...
Hershey says it could go GMO free if consumer resistance grows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “I wake up every ...
Activist Ninth Circuit court ruling overturning EPA’s sulfoxflor insecticide approval squeezes citrus industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. citrus farmers are ...
Court rules biotech firms may be responsible if GMO crops disrupt export market
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotech developers may have ...
Australian organic farmer applies to take GMO contamination case to High Court
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A West Australian organic ...
Beware mudslinging: How abuse of FOIA derails discussion of science and GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In general, FOIA requests ...
Almost none of our food is ‘natural,’ GMOs safe, necessary
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. "Over the centuries we’ve ...
Connecticut’s GMO labeling law hinges on challenge to Vermont law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fate of Connecticut's ...
European Food Safety Authority dismisses Seralini GMO rat food ‘contamination’ study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a paper published ...
Public perception of farmers in decline, hurting agricultural industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the agricultural industry, ...
Monsanto in center of GMO, glyphosate storm
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto has been reeling ...
