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.
Crop diversity declining in US, but trend could be quickly reversed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new study published last month ...
Gene edited allergy-free peanuts on horizon but GMO fears may block arrival
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While you won’t find ...
Europe’s GMO production likely to grow despite many EU nations opting out of GMO cultivation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The large number of ...
Common organic pesticides (biopesticides) found ‘acutely toxic’ to honey bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The honey bee, Apis ...
Reality of organic food doesn’t match pastoral image
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organic farming movement ...
Regenerative Organic Agriculture claims to ‘heal nature’, ‘give life deeper meaning’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My Father, Robert Rodale, ...
New York Times publishes emails of Charles Benbrook, paid organic consultant who produced ‘industry talking points’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Charles M. Benbrook, formerly ...
Pro-biotech academic researchers contacted by Monsanto under fire
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto Co.’s undisclosed recruitment ...
Monsanto on why corporations work with academics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Unless you’ve worked in ...
Glyphosate: Real risks, benefits of poster child for GMO debate
PHThe GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s hard to talk ...
League of Nerds calls glyphosate ‘probably carcinogenic’ classification ‘Andrew Wakefield science’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In May 2015 anti-GMO ...
Poland becomes tenth EU country to opt out of GMO cultivation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Poland has just registered with ...
Regulatory creep creating ‘anti-competitive obstacles’ for US biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The advent of molecular ...
Kenyan government should allow science to guide GMO policy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Long-term pesticide and chemical ...
Anti-E.coli proteins from GMO plants could make meat safer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have discovered a ...
Dr. Oz claims herbicides linked to GMOs cause hormonal problems
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The wizard is a ...
Should there be limits on FOIA requests used to harass scientists?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Both the GMO and ...
Lawsuits filed claiming Monsanto’s glyphosate caused workers’ cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A U.S. farm worker ...
Energy Dept. funds epigenetic project on sorghum response to drought
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UC Berkeley is leading a ...
Industrial agriculture, not GMO cotton, root of India farmer suicide problem
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since the mid-1990s, around 300,000 ...
30 scientists announce support of Scotland’s GMO ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scotland's decision to maintain ...
Claim GMO labeling opponents outspend pro-labeling groups 50 to 1
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The debate being waged ...
Ecomodernist environmentalist movement stumbles in European rollout
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In late September, I and ...
South Australian farmers petition government to lift moratorium on GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GRAIN Producers SA (GPSA) ...
Consumers may not perceive GMO labels as warning, study suggests
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In July, the U.S ...
Genetically modified ‘micro pigs’ to be sold as pets in China
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cutting-edge gene-editing techniques have ...
RNA interference technology could reduce weeds’ resistance to herbicide, but questions remain
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recent discoveries in the ...
