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.
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 ...
Dietary supplements filled with dangerous ingredients but “natural” industry blocks labeling, transparency
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Pieter Cohen, an internist in ...
Philadelphia Inquirer joins long list of prominent newspapers opposing GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. America's foremost nutritional problem ...
Organic food recalls due to bacterial contamination soaring
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. New data collected by Stericycle, ...
Non GMO salt? Water? Food companies exploit GMO free labels, misleading customers, promoting misinformation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Last year, Evolution Salt ...
GM trees that prevent pest disease tied up in regulation, anti-GMO attacks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. U.S. researchers say it ...
Targeting Kevin Folta for teaching genetics shows ethics of anti-GMO activist attackers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A well-respected researcher in ...
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 ...
Vandana Shiva’s ‘GMO myths’ don’t stand up to evidence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Vandana Shiva is one ...
Rice production could increase 33% with GM super-sized grains
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A newly discovered gene ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
