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.
Clothiandin does not harm bumblebees, but other neonics may, study shows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The largest field study ...
‘If field trials of GM crops were encouraged, we would have drought-resistant varieties by now’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Criticising the moratorium on ...
Politics hinders African nations from using biotech crops to tackle hunger, poverty
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...
City uses vinegar instead of glyphosate for weed control, odor proves problematic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It borders on hilarious ...
Could adoption of GMO cotton revive textile industry in Nigeria?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Raw Materials Research ...
CRISPR won’t be creating an ‘allergy-free’ peanut anytime soon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Peanut allergies are one ...
Researchers ‘evolve’ new Bt toxin that could fight insect resistance to GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops ...
French regulators split on whether to regulate CRISPR, new breeding techniques as GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The French High Council ...
Burkina Faso putting GMO cotton on hold, not abandoning it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Activists opposed to GMOs ...
Rigid organic standards on antibiotic use leads to animal suffering, death
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The triumph of purist ...
Glyphosate findings spark ‘war of words’ between WHO, European agencies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The latest dispute to ...
What’s a GMO? Apparently not these magic mushrooms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
Organic Consumer Association invokes chemical scares in suing organic infant formula maker
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chemjobber put me on to this ...
Varroa mite parasite, viruses linked more closely to honey bee health, multi-year survey finds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Honey bee colonies in ...
Consumer attitudes towards GMOs: Concerns about who benefits, why GMOs are used
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Professor Rachel Ankeny is ...
Dannon yogurt to label GMO ingredients, shift to non-GMO feed at dairies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The nation’s leading yogurt ...
Crop losses due to disease cost Uganda hundreds of millions, biotech could help
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Due to climate change ...
Jayson Lusk: Polling shows consumers want FDA, not Congress or voters, to decide GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My research shows that ...
Farm subsidies have potential to incentivize conservation practices in ‘Big Ag’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This month, I set ...
Researchers suggest GMO oilseed crop led to deformed butterflies, critic questions study design
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .Scientists at ...
Are romantic notions about organic agriculture harming the environment?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is one of ...
GMO maize expected to be commercialized in Kenya in 2018
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Insect-resistant Genetically Modified (GM) ...
Ugandan biotech students express concern over delay in passing biotechnology bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dear Mr Matia Kasaija, ...
Editorial: Anti-GMO greens sacrifice kids in developing world in quest to ‘keep food natural’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The left can be ...
Should EU regulate CRISPR crops based on modification process or final product?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .Which of ...
China’s policy on GMOs may soon get more permissive
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After years of fierce debate ...
Cornell researchers find glyphosate herbicide unlikely source of Monarch butterfly decline
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the face of ...
