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.
Why activist criticism of GMO salmon is more scare than substance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some environmentalists are assailing ...
Could AquaBounty GMO salmon escape containment causing ecological havoc?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This post is a ...
Food Poison Journal alert: Chipotle’s E. coli outbreak spreads to 45 people in 6 states
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Forty-five people infected with ...
Christie Brinkley jumps on anti-GMO bandwagon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “What I don’t like ...
Scientists call out Indian government to reject activist agitatiton over GMO mustard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Activist Vandana Shiva, an ...
IARC adds to ‘risk’ vs ‘hazard’ confusion
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to IARC’s own ...
QR codes in lieu of on-package labeling for GMO foods?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The biotech industry, along ...
FDA offers point by point rebuke of Center for Food Safety, other activists GMO labeling demand
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Food and Drug ...
‘FDA approval of genetically engineered salmon is win for environment’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After 20 years of ...
Uganda progresses in ag biotech research but lags behind in implementation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Kenya is about to ...
Neonicotinoids may impact individual honeybees different than hives
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. French researchers say neonicotinoid ...
Organic food sales rising but US acreage remains miniscule
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Despite the strong interest ...
American Bird Conservatory launches ‘scare campaign’ about neonics in Congressional food
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, the American Bird ...
Fate of GMO mustard in India unclear: Project could lose over 50% of funding
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organisation funding the ...
Will combining ‘microbials’ and biotech be next big thing in agriculture?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When the word “biotech” ...
Herbicide mixtures effective, but non-herbicide solutions necessary to combat evolution of weed resistance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In my last post, I ...
Regulatory breakthrough in Europe? Sweden says some gene edited plants not GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. CRISPR-Cas9 is a technique ...
American Academy of Pediatrics: ‘Antibiotics in animal feed endanger kids’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Overuse of antibiotics in ...
Justice department cracking down on self-regulated nutritional supplements industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. USPlabs, which made the ...
Canadian environmentalists challenge GM salmon egg production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ecological groups will argue ...
Activists response to diseased African bananas: Don’t embrace GMO solution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Zen Honeycutt is the ...
Anti-GMO NGOs petition Obama, FDA to toughen regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Environment and food safety ...
Chinese state-owned firm acquisition of Syngenta could escalate country’s GMO development
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A successful bid by ...
Lawsuit to block commercialization of GMOs in Ghana dismissed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An Accra Fast Track ...
Union of Concerned Scientists: ‘USDA does not invest sufficiently in agroecology’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our entrenched industrial agriculture system has ...
Malaysia poised to become pioneer in agricultural biotech crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Malaysia is the pioneer ...
Risk song: Many things can harm you (but glyphosate is not one of them)
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this video to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What have we learned from ...
