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.
Soylent meal replacement drink embraces GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “PRO GMO”. In Hollywood, ...
Autism and health fears lead families to abandon science, find scapegoat in GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When doctors diagnosed their ...
Argentina approves GMO disease resistant potatoes, drought tolerant soy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Argentina is negotiating with ...
Hershey says it could go GMO free if consumer resistance grows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “I wake up every ...
Activist Ninth Circuit court ruling overturning EPA’s sulfoxflor insecticide approval squeezes citrus industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. citrus farmers are ...
Court rules biotech firms may be responsible if GMO crops disrupt export market
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotech developers may have ...
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute to begin field trials of Golden Rice
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Upon completing a successful ...
Australian organic farmer applies to take GMO contamination case to High Court
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A West Australian organic ...
Beware mudslinging: How abuse of FOIA derails discussion of science and GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In general, FOIA requests ...
Almost none of our food is ‘natural,’ GMOs safe, necessary
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. "Over the centuries we’ve ...
Connecticut’s GMO labeling law hinges on challenge to Vermont law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fate of Connecticut's ...
European Food Safety Authority dismisses Seralini GMO rat food ‘contamination’ study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a paper published ...
Public perception of farmers in decline, hurting agricultural industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the agricultural industry, ...
Monsanto in center of GMO, glyphosate storm
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto has been reeling ...
Crop diversity declining in US, but trend could be quickly reversed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new study published last month ...
Gene edited allergy-free peanuts on horizon but GMO fears may block arrival
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While you won’t find ...
Europe’s GMO production likely to grow despite many EU nations opting out of GMO cultivation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The large number of ...
Common organic pesticides (biopesticides) found ‘acutely toxic’ to honey bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The honey bee, Apis ...
Reality of organic food doesn’t match pastoral image
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organic farming movement ...
Pro-biotech academic researchers contacted by Monsanto under fire
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto Co.’s undisclosed recruitment ...
Monsanto on why corporations work with academics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Unless you’ve worked in ...
Glyphosate: Real risks, benefits of poster child for GMO debate
PHThe GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s hard to talk ...
League of Nerds calls glyphosate ‘probably carcinogenic’ classification ‘Andrew Wakefield science’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In May 2015 anti-GMO ...
Regenerative Organic Agriculture claims to ‘heal nature’, ‘give life deeper meaning’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My Father, Robert Rodale, ...
New York Times publishes emails of Charles Benbrook, paid organic consultant who produced ‘industry talking points’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Charles M. Benbrook, formerly ...
Poland becomes tenth EU country to opt out of GMO cultivation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Poland has just registered with ...
Regulatory creep creating ‘anti-competitive obstacles’ for US biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The advent of molecular ...
