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.
As EU debates whether gene-edited crops are GMOs, confusion abounds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. So are these new ...
Scientists say gene-edited animals, not process itself, should be regulated
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The existing regulatory system ...
If you enjoy cheese, you can thank GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It used to be ...
No, Robyn O’Brien, trace toxins in food and GMOs are not causing allergies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . ...
If science matters, mandatory GMO labels should be opposed despite public opinion
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I wrote recently about ...
Why labeling food “natural” or “GMO” is meaningless, deceives consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Federal Food and ...
Weed Science Society: U.S. would lose half its soy, corn crops if herbicides eliminated
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Experts from the Weed ...
Organic farming groups at odds over compost contaminated with pesticides
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A rift has developed ...
Researchers develop hybrid corn variety resistant to cross-pollination with GMO varieties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Although certified organic farms ...
Anti-GMO sentiment softening?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The well-publicized push to ...
Ronald Bailey: Legal vultures use activist claims about glyphosate for ‘bogus’ Quaker Oats lawsuit
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Activists are now using ...
Canadian soybean industry asks EU to explain delay in approving GMO soy products
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The national association representing ...
Effects of drought in South Africa ameliorated by GMO crops, says industry group
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. South Africa's maize crop, ...
Moms Across America launches anti-GMO, anti-glyphosate billboard campaign
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Our Families Get Better ...
Cargill developing GMO free supply chains for corn and soy, despite lower yields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food used to be ...
Lack of approval of GMOs from EU blocking export of Monsanto’s new GM soy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. and Bunge ...
Photostory: GMO brinjal (eggplant) in Bangladesh
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2013 Bangladesh commercialised ...
Boulder County’s ban of GMOs on public land based on ‘values’ not public health concerns
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently. . . we reversed ...
EPA posts, takes offline ‘final’ report concluding glyphosate ‘not likely carcinogenic’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Glyphosate does not cause ...
Will World Health Organization force review of IARC’s glyphosate cancer determination?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. IARC — the International ...
Sen. Grassley: GMO labeling legislation unlikely before July
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Congressional legislation for labeling food ...
Can’t have it both ways: European consumers want affordable food without glyphosate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Crop Protection ...
Lawsuit: Quaker Oat’s ‘100% Natural’ claim false because of glyphosate traces
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A lawsuit seeking to ...
Farmers seek practical, less ideological, GMO debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The GMO debate has ...
Grain trade groups say USDA’s biotech regulations overhaul could disrupt global trade
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Agriculture Department's plan ...
Greening organic farming by borrowing technology from industrial farming?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The guest opinion of ...
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership papers leaked by Greenpeace reveal tension over GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Leaked copies of the ...
