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.
New York Times offers lesson plan for schools on CRISPR gene editing in animals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: The following ...
Kenya’s Catholic Cardinal promotes organic farming, claims GMOs bad for health, environment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cardinal John Njue asked ...
EPA finds neonic seed treatments safe for most crops, but questions remain about cotton, citrus
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Environmental Protection Agency, ...
Is the problem really GMOs or overpopulation?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UCLA's Institute of the Environment ...
Judge rules Food Democracy Now guilty of concealing donor names in 2013 GMO labeling campaign
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An anti-GMO organization violated ...
U.S. soybean growers frustrated by EU’s delay in approving new GMO soy feed crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The American Soybean Association ...
European commission plans to relicense glyphosate for 10 years according to leaked proposal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European commission is planning to ...
With no clear legal definition, non-GMO claims legal minefield for food marketers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An order from a ...
U.S. approves CRISPR mushroom, corn, but Britain unsure how it will regulate import
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. American regulators have allowed ...
European organic agriculture leader comes out in favor of CRISPR
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. European activists opposing all ...
NRDC plays scary Agent Orange card about 2,4-D herbicide found safe by regulators
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There has been a ...
Vermont asks court for access to industry’s internal studies on GMO safety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A key player in ...
Are politicians setting the wrong priorities debating GMO labeling?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .[S]ome politicians ...
Nestle eliminating GMOs, artificial flavors from some of its U.S. ice cream products
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nestle SA is eliminating ...
Federal judge: Lawsuit over Chipotle’s GMO-free claims can move forward
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A lawsuit accusing Chipotle Mexican ...
Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott visits Monsanto headquarters
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I normally cover the ...
U.S. government convenes panel of biotech researchers ahead of update to regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. government is ...
Cassava genome mapping may provide tools to make crop disease resistant, less toxic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bill Gates called it ...
Zambia grants grocery chain permission to import products containing GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The National Bio-safety Authority (NBA) ...
Nigeria’s Environment Minister: Biotech vital to success of country’s Great Green Wall initiative
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Minister of Environment, ...
WebMD’s advice on organic food relies on activist recommendations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Boasting credible, accurate content ...
‘Fear is profitable’: Environmental Working Group’s 2016 ‘Dirty Dozen’ list still flawed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sometimes it pays to ...
Contrary to EPA, new report finds neonicotinoids boost yields in soybean fields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The class of insecticides ...
Glyphosate residues, most at safe levels, found in breakfast foods, including organic products
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to a report ...
Non-browning crops not new, modern science just better at making them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Those quick to criticize ...
Is Post Foods using non-GMO labeling to ‘scam customers’?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At this time, I’d ...
African farmers missing out on biotech tools to boost yields, mitigate climate change
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers are missing out ...
