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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Séralini and other researchers critical of GMOs publish study claiming glyphosate may lead to liver, kidney problems, but scientists skeptical
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Long-term exposure to tiny ...
244 reasons why GMOs are safe: Global science organizations endorse crop biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Currently there is a ...
How to cut farm use of pesticides: GMO moths, but anti-biotech groups wary
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An invasive species, the diamondback ...
Critic claims Golden Rice may never be introduced, better Vitamin A deficiency solutions exist
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Few GM crops are ...
‘GMO-free’ Chipotle sued for serving soft drinks, meat, dairy linked to crop biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Colleen Gallagher filed a ...
Should social and political factors have a role in GMO regulation?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. India's former Union Agriculture Minister, ...
Charles Benbrook funded by Big Organic to publish on issues central to their anti-GMO market strategy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor’s Note: For more ...
