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.
Justice department cracking down on self-regulated nutritional supplements industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. USPlabs, which made the ...
Fate of GMO mustard in India unclear: Project could lose over 50% of funding
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organisation funding the ...
Will combining ‘microbials’ and biotech be next big thing in agriculture?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When the word “biotech” ...
Canadian environmentalists challenge GM salmon egg production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ecological groups will argue ...
Activists response to diseased African bananas: Don’t embrace GMO solution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Zen Honeycutt is the ...
Anti-GMO NGOs petition Obama, FDA to toughen regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Environment and food safety ...
Chinese state-owned firm acquisition of Syngenta could escalate country’s GMO development
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A successful bid by ...
Lawsuit to block commercialization of GMOs in Ghana dismissed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An Accra Fast Track ...
GMOs made using Agrobacterium, RNAi use natural processes, not ‘Frankenstein’ technologies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over 90 percent of ...
Union of Concerned Scientists: ‘USDA does not invest sufficiently in agroecology’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our entrenched industrial agriculture system has ...
Malaysia poised to become pioneer in agricultural biotech crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Malaysia is the pioneer ...
Risk song: Many things can harm you (but glyphosate is not one of them)
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this video to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What have we learned from ...
Videos: GMOs pro and con at American College of Nutrition
The GLP aggregated and excerpted these videos to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. These two lectures on the ...
Western Australia expected to lift restrictions on new GM crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Legislation to repeal the Genetically ...
Anti-GMO activists shut down high school biology program in Germany
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. HannoverGEN was an optional ...
Phenomenol success of Bt cotton in India makes case for GMOs in developing world
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How has the cotton ...
European Food Safety Authority rejects WHO’s IARC conclusion that glyphosate is carcinogenic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. EFSA and the EU ...
Girl Scouts reject activist demands for GMO-free cookies, side with science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This coming February, when ...
Non-browning Arctic apples could open door to consumer acceptance of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On a cloudless September morning, ...
GMO crops can’t help poor in developing world unless socioeconomic, political contexts considered
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The majority of GM crops are ...
USDA responds to accusations it silenced scientist over neonics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. USDA is one of ...
FDA seeking comment on defining “natural” foods: Will GMOs be included?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. From granola bars to ...
CRISPR/Cas9 used to make plants immune to destructive tomato virus
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The CRISPR/Cas9 system can ...
Infographic: GMOs in the EU
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Only one GMO has ...
Fresh, local and organic may not equal sustainable
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Are the organic hand-picked ...
GMOs play villain in new conspiracy thriller film
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. "We're making broccoli with ...
Neonicotinoid ban cost UK farmers $33 million, yet no evidence it saves bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since December 2013, the ...
