Daily Food & Ag 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.
Protestors arrested after throwing cash into Senate chamber during GMO labeling vote
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Senate advanced a ...
Bernie Sanders attacks Senate backers of GMO labeling bill on Twitter
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fight is over ...
NYT: Senate’s labeling bill allows companies to hide GMO information from consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Senate is expected ...
TV interview: Organic industry backs mandatory GMO labeling to scare consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food policy expert, Julie ...
Understanding genetics of woody plants could aid development of biofuels
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Large, fast-growing poplar trees ...
Chemist explains why organic labels are about marketing, not chemistry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . ...
Debunking Naturally Savvy’s ‘Top Ten Reasons to Avoid GMOs’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A few days ago, ...
Mexican farmers impatient for approval of GMO soybeans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers in the state ...
India neglecting investment in improved crops, biotechnology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Budget 2016 contained ...
Jon Entine urges farmers to tell their stories, not let anti-GMO activists define narrative
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mainstream agriculture is under assault ...
GMOs illustrate problem of false balance, junk science in media
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 100 Nobel ...
Food manufacturers pulling 3,000 products from VT due to GMO labeling law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Vermont's first-in-the-nation GMO labeling ...
What would we lose if we gave up GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Greenpeace calls GMOs "genetic ...
Caveats to consider about the Senate’s GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Senate agriculture leaders have ...
Many environmentalists dismiss best way to reduce pesticide use– GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. But what really catalyzed [Walter ...
GMO eggplant almost 100% effective against major pest
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The genetically modified eggplant ...
GMO labeling deal sparks organic industry infighting
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The blame-game was in ...
Switzerland extends ban on GMO cultivation until 2021
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On [June 29], the ...
EU’s anti-GMO attitude slows development of biotechnology in Southern Africa
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. SADC [Southern African Development ...
Why do we regulate GMOs like chemicals, not living things?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . ...
Senate’s GMO labeling compromise appears headed for passage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The ongoing legislative battle ...
Report from pro-organic group claims herbicide, fertilizer use in VT doubled in last decade
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agribusiness corporations. . . promised ...
Is EU’s anti-GMO stance holding back developing countries?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Europe isn’t about to ...
Survey finds support for GMO labeling vastly overstated
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Americans remain ...
Maize shortage in Kenya renews calls for GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Maize production in Kenya ...
Israeli scientists develop GMO banana with longer shelf life
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bananas never last very ...
2016 World Food Prize goes to scientists who developed biofortified sweet potato
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A handful of scientists ...
