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.
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 ...
Activists warn Monsanto poised to become Big Veggie
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Broccoli, the original superfood, ...
GMO gluten-free wheat could be savior for celiac sufferers, but anti-biotech campaigners block it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Wheat is one of the ...
Marijuana genome mappers claim goal is to prevent Monsanto ‘takeover’ of pot business
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A team of researchers ...
Indian government must layout national policy as it loosens restrictions on GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotech crop research in ...
Kashi cereal has Non-GMO label–and glyphosate residue
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Not only does organic ...
How scientists evaluate potential health problems of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One major public concern ...
Vietnam requiring foreign firms build GM corn plants as condition to enter market
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Companies will have to ...
Celebrity chef Rick Bayless calls Mexico’s lifting of GMO ban ‘immeasurable cruelty’
7The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A recent ruling in ...
FDA using DNA to track foodborne illness before it spreads
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Investigations into foodborne illness ...
After threats of violence against prof Folta, U Florida reallocates Monsanto science donation to food pantry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The University of Florida ...
Monsanto may look to Bayer CropScience after abandoning Syngenta takeover
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto has abandoned its $47 ...
Anti-GMO group sues USDA for delays in responding to FOIA requests regarding GMO safety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A nonprofit organization called ...
Bt crops safe to eat, reduce pesticide use and collateral damage to beneficial insects
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Crop loss due to ...
Vandana Shiva, activists spread misinformation about GMO mustard up for deregulation in India
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Personalities that aspire to ...
A mess: PLOS mistakenly publishes rejected ADHD-herbicide paper, retracts it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. PLOS One has retracted ...
GM technology increases drought tolerance by protecting roots
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agriculture is estimated to ...
Yale professor dissects flawed anti-GMO commentary in New England Journal of Medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A recent commentary published ...
As Kenya prepares to lift ban on GMOs, critics say biotech crops aren’t only option to improve production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. The debate sparked by ...
For ideologues, from GMOs to fluoridation, science is battleground of “hand-picked truths”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. In the 1960s, with ...
GM plants great option for organic farmers but arbitrarily excluded
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Professor Ian Godwin from ...
‘GMO technology could become solution to, rather than cause of, food allergies’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2000 the FDA ...
Is organic farming and food a sustainable choice?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Producers of organic food ...
Warning: Mandated GMO labeling comes at a cost
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. As economist David Henderson points ...
GMO crops benefit small vegetable farms as well as large industrial farms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Novel seed genetics—particularly GM ...
Hawaii activists marshall anecdotes to claim GMOs, pesticides linked to birth defects
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Local doctors find themselves ...
Following criticism, PLOS removes blog defending scrutiny of science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Community blog PLOS Biologue has pulled ...
