Daily Food & Agriculture 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.
Lawsuit: Quaker Oat’s ‘100% Natural’ claim false because of glyphosate traces
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A lawsuit seeking to ...
Farmers seek practical, less ideological, GMO debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The GMO debate has ...
Grain trade groups say USDA’s biotech regulations overhaul could disrupt global trade
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Agriculture Department's plan ...
Greening organic farming by borrowing technology from industrial farming?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The guest opinion of ...
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership papers leaked by Greenpeace reveal tension over GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Leaked copies of the ...
Can’t have it both ways: European consumers want affordable food without glyphosate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Crop Protection ...
CRISPR won’t be creating an ‘allergy-free’ peanut anytime soon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Peanut allergies are one ...
Clothiandin does not harm bumblebees, but other neonics may, study shows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The largest field study ...
‘If field trials of GM crops were encouraged, we would have drought-resistant varieties by now’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Criticising the moratorium on ...
Politics hinders African nations from using biotech crops to tackle hunger, poverty
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...
City uses vinegar instead of glyphosate for weed control, odor proves problematic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It borders on hilarious ...
Could adoption of GMO cotton revive textile industry in Nigeria?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Raw Materials Research ...
French regulators split on whether to regulate CRISPR, new breeding techniques as GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The French High Council ...
Burkina Faso putting GMO cotton on hold, not abandoning it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Activists opposed to GMOs ...
Rigid organic standards on antibiotic use leads to animal suffering, death
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The triumph of purist ...
Glyphosate findings spark ‘war of words’ between WHO, European agencies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The latest dispute to ...
What’s a GMO? Apparently not these magic mushrooms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
Researchers ‘evolve’ new Bt toxin that could fight insect resistance to GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops ...
Dannon yogurt to label GMO ingredients, shift to non-GMO feed at dairies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The nation’s leading yogurt ...
Crop losses due to disease cost Uganda hundreds of millions, biotech could help
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Due to climate change ...
Jayson Lusk: Polling shows consumers want FDA, not Congress or voters, to decide GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My research shows that ...
Organic Consumer Association invokes chemical scares in suing organic infant formula maker
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chemjobber put me on to this ...
Varroa mite parasite, viruses linked more closely to honey bee health, multi-year survey finds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Honey bee colonies in ...
Consumer attitudes towards GMOs: Concerns about who benefits, why GMOs are used
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Professor Rachel Ankeny is ...
Ugandan biotech students express concern over delay in passing biotechnology bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dear Mr Matia Kasaija, ...
Editorial: Anti-GMO greens sacrifice kids in developing world in quest to ‘keep food natural’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The left can be ...
Farm subsidies have potential to incentivize conservation practices in ‘Big Ag’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This month, I set ...
