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.
Allowing EU states to ban GM feed would threaten European animal food production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On September 10th, the agriculture ...
Dangerous chemicals causing sex changes in frogs? Yes, natural ones
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's not easy being ...
GMOs and patent laws: No Monsanto does not sue innocent farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There is a popular ...
Are scientists who collaborate with industry tainted?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When does conflict of ...
Tufts nutrition expert navigates ‘destructive debate’ over GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's Note] Parke Wilde ...
GMOs gaining favor in US, Australia has potential to lead in biotech if ‘hard choices’ made
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An American journalist, scholar ...
As GMO labeling debate shifts to Senate, lobbying dollars flow
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Combatants in a national ...
Academic scientists’ participation in GMO debate neither new nor ‘inappropriate’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Academic scientists have played ...
Australian organic industry trying to bully GMOs out of existence with zero tolerance contamination policy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Visiting US journalist Jon Entine ...
Chinese farmers illegally growing GMO soybeans to achieve higher yields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers in Heilongjiang Province ...
Kashi pays $3.99m to settle suit claiming it misleading labeled food ‘all natural’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A federal judge in ...
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 ...
