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.
Organic cotton clothing company blames GMOs for Indian farmer suicides in underwear ad
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “We want to make ...
Why have GMO foods failed to gain approval in India?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a research laboratory ...
CRISPR’s gene-edited crops might provide an opportunity to revamp biotech regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Thanks to entirely specious fears about ...
‘Atomic gardening’ created many of today’s crops with x-ray machines or at nuclear test sites
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Back in the mid-20th ...
Zimbabwe’s rejection of food aid containing GMOs worrisome for country’s poor, hungry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My country’s government would ...
94 scientists back IARC’s glyphosate assessment, may influence EPA review of herbcide
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One year ago, an ...
Is framing the GMO regulation debate around ‘product vs process’ unscientific?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One issue that has ...
Malawi approves confined field trials of virus-resistant GMO bananas
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Malawi National Biosafety ...
Indian government caps GMO cotton price, cuts Monsanto seed royalties by 70 percent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. India cut the royalties ...
USA Today editorial: GMO labels scare consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mandatory [GMO] labeling — set ...
Why is there controversy about GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The biggest issue regarding ...
Would ‘USDA Process Verified’ label for GMO-free foods be a marketplace driven solution?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The United States Department ...
Are New Zealand’s biotech regulations out of date?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A second green revolution ...
Does the Gates Foundation promote corporate interests over public interests in the GMO debate?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMO proponents like to ...
Are millennial ‘foodies’ ignoring important issues in food policy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With a spending power ...
Beneficial bacteria could reduce need for crop fertilizers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bacteria discovered by scientists ...
To reduce price of GMO cotton seed, should India regulate royalty fees or promote competition?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The row between the ...
We’ve been making, eating GMOs for centuries, in form of ‘grafted plants’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We have been accidentally ...
Antibiotic resistance may be spread by wastewater, wind, but not meat itself
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the first study ...
Did loss of pest resistance in GMO cotton prompt Indian government proposal to revoke patent?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. THE Central Institute for ...
Lawsuits against Syngenta’s GMO corn could become class action suit
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hundreds of lawsuits against seed company ...
English farmers plant less rapeseed due to pest problems linked to restrictions on neonics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. England could be set ...
Sen. Roberts’ bill that would block state GMO labeling laws could be next Senate vote
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman ...
Greenpeace vows “action” after Philippines approves planting of insect-resistant GMO corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Philippines has approved ...
USDA Secretary Vilsack voices support for mandatory GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack ...
Canadian farmers concerned introduction of GMO alfalfa could hurt foreign sales
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A select group of ...
Reducing royalties for GMO seeds won’t help Indian companies facing low cotton sales
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A government panel on genetically ...
