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.
New Zealand open to GMO innovation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Environment Minister Nick Smith ...
Scientists, universities grapple with defining ‘conflict of interest’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There has been much ...
Carcinogenic conundrum: Why we fear glyphosate but love bacon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. But beyond putting the ...
EPA proposes ban on common pesticide, chlorpyrifos, used on fruit, vegetable crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chlorpyrifos, a common pesticide ...
WHO’s IARC erroneous classification of coffee as carcinogenic shows system broken
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organizations’s ...
Stop calling food ‘toxic’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I am tired of ...
Clinton, Sanders say GMOs safe but back some form of labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As Iowa's January primary ...
Washington, Oregon investigating massive food poisoning outbreak at Chipotle
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. All Chipotle restaurants in ...
Genetic engineering could save UK’s ash trees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetically modified ash trees ...
Reinventing bread to make it tasty and nutritious
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Before the advent of ...
Why scientists are withdrawing from public conversation on GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since July, controversy has ...
Argentina developing eagerly anticipated drought tolerant GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sunflowers are hardy, tolerating heat ...
Should journalists speak at science industry financed outreach events?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With media budgets shrinking, it’s common ...
Researchers now believe ‘bees addicted to neonics’ study was wrong
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What does the media ...
How to combat herbicide resistance: Use more herbicide
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A while ago, I wrote ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
