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.
Can the Chinese government overcome public mistrust of GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In China, food security ...
GMOs and herbicide resistant weeds stumbling blocks to sustainable farming
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Have we become more ...
Marsh v Baxter: Organic farmer loses appeal, ordered to pay $800,000 as pleas grow for farm ‘co-existence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On September 3, the ...
Left McCarthyism? SF Pacifica radio station KPFA blacklists scientist because he’s not anti-GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The following is an ...
Activists pressure Costco, other retailers to boycott GMO salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Consumer groups are pressuring ...
Prices for crops in Scotland, Germany could rise if GMOs banned
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plans by Scotland, and ...
GMOs in US vs. EU: United States regulates usage while Europe fears risks of technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While the U.S. and ...
Conspiracy theories surrounding Monsanto, Big Food, blind public to grey reality
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While belief in a ...
GMOs critical tool to feed 10 billion people without destroying environment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The most recent UN ...
Séralini and other researchers critical of GMOs publish study claiming glyphosate may lead to liver, kidney problems, but scientists skeptical
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Long-term exposure to tiny ...
244 reasons why GMOs are safe: Global science organizations endorse crop biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Currently there is a ...
How to cut farm use of pesticides: GMO moths, but anti-biotech groups wary
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An invasive species, the diamondback ...
Critic claims Golden Rice may never be introduced, better Vitamin A deficiency solutions exist
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Few GM crops are ...
‘GMO-free’ Chipotle sued for serving soft drinks, meat, dairy linked to crop biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Colleen Gallagher filed a ...
Should social and political factors have a role in GMO regulation?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. India's former Union Agriculture Minister, ...
Charles Benbrook funded by Big Organic to publish on issues central to their anti-GMO market strategy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor’s Note: For more ...
Activists warn Monsanto poised to become Big Veggie
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Broccoli, the original superfood, ...
GMO gluten-free wheat could be savior for celiac sufferers, but anti-biotech campaigners block it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Wheat is one of the ...
Marijuana genome mappers claim goal is to prevent Monsanto ‘takeover’ of pot business
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A team of researchers ...
Indian government must layout national policy as it loosens restrictions on GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotech crop research in ...
Greece and Latvia will not grow GMO maize approved by EU
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto said it would ...
After threats of violence against prof Folta, U Florida reallocates Monsanto science donation to food pantry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The University of Florida ...
Kashi cereal has Non-GMO label–and glyphosate residue
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Not only does organic ...
How scientists evaluate potential health problems of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One major public concern ...
Vietnam requiring foreign firms build GM corn plants as condition to enter market
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Companies will have to ...
Celebrity chef Rick Bayless calls Mexico’s lifting of GMO ban ‘immeasurable cruelty’
7The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A recent ruling in ...
FDA using DNA to track foodborne illness before it spreads
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Investigations into foodborne illness ...
