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.
Leading bioethicist says food industry should voluntarily label GMO foods
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Should labels be required ...
In GMO debate, science deniers, false equivalence contributes to ‘mobocratization’ of science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Denialism, also known as ...
Effective science communication, personal engagement changes anti-GMO bloggers mind
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I used to be ...
Organic farmer, facing $800,00 liability, ponders appeal after losing Australia “contamination” case
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. TWO out of three ...
Despite anti-GMO campaign, Ghana poised to commercialize GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Despite the sustained campaign ...
‘Ban bad capitalist behavior,’ not GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The common cliché says ...
Nigerian scientist: Activists slander benefits of GMOs, hurt poor Africans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While there are unproven ...
Marion Nestle: ‘Conflicted studies conflicted if biotech or organic lobby pays for them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On August 6, the New ...
Synbio flavors are natural, sustainable and GMO free but won’t get Non-GMO stamp
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Synthetic biology will become ...
With maize crop decimated by drought, South Africa looks to genetically modified varieties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Grain SA said South ...
‘GMO-free’ marketing: Targeting your health or your wallet?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Companies are changing their ...
Parched Canadian summer spurs researchers to seek out tree seedlings with hardier DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A search is underway ...
Transgenic animals that could fight diseases in developing world blocked by indifference
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UC Davis professor, Dr ...
Corn: Balancing demands for food and biofuel tricky
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Corn is the main ...
After long delay, Indian government considers GMO field trial applications
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After more than a ...
Could more cautious GMO regulation win over skeptical public in US?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Europe’s debate about GM ...
Organic coop critical of GMOs joins Cornell bio group decrying censorship by anti-GMO activists
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Cornell Alliance for ...
Chipotle’s anti-GMO claims sow legal minefield for companies advertising themselves as non GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chipotle says it will ...
Can the Chinese government overcome public mistrust of GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In China, food security ...
GMOs and herbicide resistant weeds stumbling blocks to sustainable farming
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Have we become more ...
Marsh v Baxter: Organic farmer loses appeal, ordered to pay $800,000 as pleas grow for farm ‘co-existence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On September 3, the ...
Prices for crops in Scotland, Germany could rise if GMOs banned
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plans by Scotland, and ...
GMOs in US vs. EU: United States regulates usage while Europe fears risks of technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While the U.S. and ...
Conspiracy theories surrounding Monsanto, Big Food, blind public to grey reality
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While belief in a ...
GMOs critical tool to feed 10 billion people without destroying environment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The most recent UN ...
Left McCarthyism? SF Pacifica radio station KPFA blacklists scientist because he’s not anti-GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The following is an ...
Activists pressure Costco, other retailers to boycott GMO salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Consumer groups are pressuring ...
