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.
Kenyan government should allow science to guide GMO policy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Long-term pesticide and chemical ...
Anti-E.coli proteins from GMO plants could make meat safer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have discovered a ...
Dr. Oz claims herbicides linked to GMOs cause hormonal problems
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The wizard is a ...
Should there be limits on FOIA requests used to harass scientists?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Both the GMO and ...
Claim GMO labeling opponents outspend pro-labeling groups 50 to 1
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The debate being waged ...
Ecomodernist environmentalist movement stumbles in European rollout
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In late September, I and ...
Lawsuits filed claiming Monsanto’s glyphosate caused workers’ cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A U.S. farm worker ...
Energy Dept. funds epigenetic project on sorghum response to drought
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UC Berkeley is leading a ...
Industrial agriculture, not GMO cotton, root of India farmer suicide problem
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since the mid-1990s, around 300,000 ...
30 scientists announce support of Scotland’s GMO ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scotland's decision to maintain ...
South Australian farmers petition government to lift moratorium on GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GRAIN Producers SA (GPSA) ...
Consumers may not perceive GMO labels as warning, study suggests
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In July, the U.S ...
Genetically modified ‘micro pigs’ to be sold as pets in China
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cutting-edge gene-editing techniques have ...
RNA interference technology could reduce weeds’ resistance to herbicide, but questions remain
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recent discoveries in the ...
Kenyan agricultural scientists win international award for genetic work unappreciated at home
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ruth Wanyera, a plant ...
Scientists’ and policymakers’ concerns mount as weed resistance to glyphosate increases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Concerns about the world's ...
China commits to making biotech approval process ‘timely and science-based’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. China has agreed to ...
Genome sequencing speeds foodborne illness investigations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In August 2015, whole-genome sequencing ...
GMOs huge opportunity for Hawaiian economy, misunderstood by critics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There is tension on ...
‘Scaremongering’ turns Tanzanian farmers away from drought, disease resistant GMO seeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Our farmers are afraid ...
Most people aren’t farmers, easily scared by spin about GMOs, modern agriculture
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Modern farming is remote. Though ...
Agricultural experts argue biotech would improve crop yields, diversify Nigerian economy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agricultural experts in Nigeria ...
Serbia bans cultivation of GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Serbia will not allow ...
‘Stinky cheeses’ made naturally from molds with genes from other species
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many cheeses require a ...
Organic food gets less ‘green’ as market goes global
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Soybeans from India, coconut ...
US regulators propose restrictive rules for GMO wheat field trials
After rogue genetically engineered wheat plants found in Oregon and Montana caused market fluctuations and lawsuits, the federal regulating agency proposed a change ...
Texas legislature in no hurry to pass GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. People in the U.S ...
