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.
National GMO import bans not sustainable for EU livestock production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In mid-October, members of ...
Have EU politicians ‘abdicated role as leaders’ on GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic farming has a ...
Canada’s regulation of new crops based on trait novelty, not process by which trait introduced
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Novel traits are used ...
CRISPR: ‘When research has regulatory, not scientific goal, regulations must be fixed’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists say they hope to avoid ...
San Francisco dog owners claim glyphosate caused pets’ cancer, petition city parks to ban it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dog owners across San ...
Jane Goodall amplifies glyphosate fears in interview with university newspaper
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In July 1960, Jane ...
Senate Agricultural Committee will hear testimony Oct. 21 on GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The battle over whether ...
GMO satire broadcast raises questions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Vern Blazek Science ...
Gene editing could circumvent restrictive GMO regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plant scientists have been quick ...
Art Caplan: Food industry should adopt voluntary GMO labels
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I'm Art Caplan at ...
Upcoming EU vote to opt out of GMO soy imports could hurt farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A controversial proposal scheduled ...
Improving open records rules can provide transparency, protect scientists from harassment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some argue that we ...
Europe debating how to regulate emerging genome editing technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. EU policymakers are about ...
‘Narcissistic food intolerance epidemic’ rages among affluent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Friends in Venice saw a restaurant ...
Prominent anti-GMO critic praises Cornell’s Alliance for Science for constructive debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Something important just happened ...
Scientific consensus won’t sway emotional climate change or GMO critics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We have an important ...
GMOs could reduce Vietnam’s dependence on feed imports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMOs would be a good ...
Field trials of GMO crops in EU countries virtually nonexistent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2015 the field ...
Biotechnology, supercomputer take on cassava pests, disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Perth team is ...
Campaign to put Nobel Prize-winning maize geneticist Barbara McClintock on $10 bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On June 16th the U.S ...
Citizen science will test hypothesis that wild animals avoid GMO corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One frequent Internet claim ...
Next agricultural revolution in Africa will be aided by biotechnology, digital technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. African agriculture has long ...
Biotech selected microbes improves crop yield, reduces diease and fertilizer use
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Davis biotechnology company BioConsortia Inc. has ...
Many parents buy into ‘faulty premise’ that organic safer for kids
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is almost a ...
German demand for non-GMO livestock feed may heavily influence soy production in Brazil
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There is a now ...
Ethiopia ‘should support domestic crop biotechnology research and development’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Ethiopian government has ...
Americans care most about food safety, nutrition, cost, care less about GMOs, sustainability
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The hot topic of food ...
