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.
What does “organic” actually mean?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What does organic actually ...
Bacon may not be so bad after all, depending on your DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After the World Health ...
Keither Kloor examines Brooke Borel’s controversial article criticizing Kevin Folta GMO parody site
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How do journalists decide what ...
Lundgren whistleblower complaint claims USDA silencing scientists discussing controversial issues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Late last year, Jonathan ...
Already-developed whitefly resistant GMO cotton could have protected Indian crop
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a quiet corner ...
Will food policy become part of national political dialogue?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food is becoming political, ...
Fading organic movement ratchets up fear-based marketing campaign
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organic-products industry is ...
Long history of E. coli and other food poisoning outbreaks at Chipotle
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Washington and Oregon Health ...
Argentina crop dispute: Will companies innovate if they are denied royalties?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On average, it takes ...
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 ...
How to delay herbicide resistance and evolution of superweeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Back in 2006, Researchers from ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
