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.
Landrigan and Benbrook get it wrong on GMOs in New England Journal of Medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an opinion piece was ...
GM oilseed turns poor quality farmland into rich source of industrial biofuel
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A Kansas State University ...
EPA, Monsanto ignore health risks of RNA interference technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Americans could soon be ...
Advances in genetic engineering highlights fractured regulatory structure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. As the battle over GMO labeling ...
GM algae could dramatically cut carbon emissions to produce ‘greener’ plastics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. From polyester shirts to ...
How to immunize children against allure of anti-science, emotion-based thinking on GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...
GMO critics claim safety consensus manufactured by industry lobbyists, fellow travelers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A Tufts researcher, Sheldon Krimsky, ...
Grocery Manufacturers, biotech giants spend big bucks promoting GM salmon, voluntary GMO labeling laws
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Americans want a more ...
Scotland’s GMO ban could leave its most valuable food export, farmed salmon, at disadvantage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Scottish ministers took another ...
Are GMOs and herbicides safe? New England Journal of Medicine commentary casts doubt
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this commentary to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's Note: For a profile ...
Genetically modifying crops to improve photosynthesis could boost yields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Unless we increase the ...
European public scientists urge Scotland to reverse ‘political’ GMO ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A powerful group of ...
Matt Ridley: Greens scare mongering on GMOs, fracking, pesticides blunts access to safer technologies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. The public has increasingly ...
Activist beekeepers sue EPA for not moving to restrict neonicotinoids
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. With their livelihoods in ...
Folta: PLoS should retract Thacker and Seife article, issue apology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. I'm furious about the ...
Environmental activists claim “misguided war” on invasive plants is big business for Monsanto, glyphosate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Nowadays, the notion that ...
Possibility of GMOs reducing genetic diversity, resilience of wild populations causes concern
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many are concerned that GMOs will ...
As sea levels rise, GMO salt-tolerant crops could address urgent need
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sea rise, one of ...
Foreign spies now stealing GMO secrets, not just military secrets
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, the FBI caught ...
Can organic farming sustainably feed the developing world?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2030, the world ...
GMO debate may hinder progress of RNA interference biotechnology in Europe
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The debate around genetically ...
Slate guts scare-mongering doc ‘That Sugar Film’ featured uncritically by NY Times
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
Specter of Agent Orange haunts introduction of GMOs to Vietnam
When Vietnam moved economically from communism to capitalism in the 1980s, it enjoyed an agriculture boom that lifted millions from ...
Why the Millennial Generation might embrace GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The natural-foods craze has ...
Could non GMO hybrid wine grapes create a Napa Valley in South Dakota?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Wine grapes specially bred ...
Nassim Taleb escalates ‘boorish attacks’ on GMO science supporters
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Communicating science to lay ...
GMOs changed how pesticides used, cutting overall usage but raising health questions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMOs have been changing ...
