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.
Monsanto mulling future in India if government cuts GMO cotton royalty payments
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto Co, the world's ...
Farmers don’t try new things because it’s too risky. This could change that
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The problem with revolutionary ...
Don’t want to eat GMOs? Here are foods to avoid
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While I may not ...
Was activist scientist Jonathan Lundgren, neonicotinoid critic, silenced by USDA?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As a USDA-ARS employee, ...
Sen. Merkley’s mandatory GMO labeling bill backed by Campbell Soup unlikely to pass
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .Senator Jeff ...
Should GMO regulation be process-based or product-based?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The question of whether ...
India’s proposal to reduce royalties on GMO cotton raises questions about intellectual property
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A government panel on ...
Should Zimbabwe adopt GMO pest-resistant cotton to revive production?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As debate on production ...
GMO canola developer says “intelligent fertilizer”, “RNA high interference” in Ag’s future
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Will Keller] was the key ...
USDA panel rejects neonic researcher-turned-activist Jonathan Lundgren integrity complaint
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A three-member [USDA] Scientific ...
Addressing Ghanaians concerns, misconceptions about GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since the passage of ...
Democratic senators introduce alternative–mandatory–GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) ...
Organic advocacy group calls Ag Secretary Vilsack’s call for national labeling bill “fear mongering”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Organic Consumers Association ...
Demand for mandatory GMO labeling could boomerang on critics, increasing safety perceptions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While proponents of mandatory ...
If GMOs were eliminated, how would environment, economy be affected?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Higher food prices, a ...
Are farmer’s being ‘thrown under the bus’ by Big Food, changing consumer preferences?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It seems like every ...
Instead of GMO citrus greening solution, Florida officials seek permission to spray antibiotics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Florida’s Department of Agriculture ...
Three Senate Democrats back voluntary GMO labeling, bill now before full Senate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. States could no longer ...
NH Ag. Commissioner: State by state GMO labeling laws will cause comerce chaos, cost consumer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Promoting agriculture in the ...
Voluntary GMO labeling bill approved by Senate Agriculture Committee
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [NEWS UPDATE: The Senate Agriculture Committee ...
In Boulder County, CO, GMOs ‘poor symbol’ of larger issues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you want a ...
Rats fed tolerant to herbicide dicambra tolerant GMO soybeans show no ill effects
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The dicamba-tolerant soybean MON87708 ...
How ‘advocacy research’ distorts GMO debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientific publishing is in ...
Bangladesh plans to release blight resistant GMO potato by end of 2016
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The government plans to ...
Campbell’s: GMO labels can inform without being disparaging
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . Let’s ...
Beer may contain micro traces of glyphosate, but only definite carcinogen is beer itself
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When the news broke ...
If GMO food banned, what would be cost to consumers?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many people are concerned ...
