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.
Studies touted by activists as showing negative health effects from GMOs challenged by researchers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A number of widely ...
Retracted Italian paper plagued by flawed methods, materials
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biology Fortified recently reported that “an ...
Canadian government helps fund documentary to dispel anti-GMO myths
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A government-funded documentary is ...
Latest lawsuit alleges that Chipotle tried to cover up norovirus outbreak
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Lawyers representing seven people ...
Does liberal Marin County school district serve organic food with side of ‘miseducation?’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Headlines before the start ...
Does EU’s delay in approving GMO imports constitute ‘maladministration?’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Ombudsman Emily ...
Can next generation GMOs be rebranded as ‘green?’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Growing consumer concern about ...
USDA meeting to hash out deal on GMO labeling may take place January 21
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 10 food, ag, ...
Leader of Australia’s Green party in conflict with colleagues on GMO policy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Richard di Natale is ...
European anti-GMO groups campaign to regulate gene edited crops as GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Two of the greatest ...
Why some activists want labels for GMOs but not for pesticides used by organic farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I was on Michael ...
States with more farmers’ markets have more outbreaks of food posioning
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. From 1994 to 2014, ...
Uganda expected to pass law permitting GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The long awaited National ...
Chickens originally domesticated for fighting, not food
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When the Arts and ...
GMO labeling bill may be debated again in Maine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Supporters of a Maine ...
Italian anti-GMO researcher may have engaged in improprieties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Papers [by Professor Federico ...
Probe of Italian GMO researcher who may have manipulated data extends to colleagues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A scandal is erupting ...
Mark Bittman, former NYT columnist, struggling in new gig selling vegan meals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What happens when a ...
Discovery of drought tolerance gene may be key for future crops as climate warms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Global warming increases the ...
CBS News: Anti-GMO movement hurts poor, hungry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. ...What no one disputes ...
Third Way: Can GMOs, organics jointly promote sustainable farming?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Amy Hepworth’s life’s passion ...
India’s chief science advisor encourages PM to approve GMO mustard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. India's chief scientific adviser ...
Chipotle to shut down all US restaurants on one day to address food poisoning crisis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Following successive food poisoning ...
European anti-GMO activists: ‘Gene-editing must be regulated as GMOs’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
Cultural status of corn threatens approval of GMOs in Mexico
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [A]ctivists ...
Companies make big bucks by making you afraid of chemicals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Most people don’t realize ...
Is glyphosate carcinogenic or not? Differing assessments lead to dispute in EU
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A bitter row has ...
