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.
Indian farmer’s associations demand government approve GMO mustard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [On March 30] A ...
Maryland expected to ban neonicotinoids in household pesticides
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The [bee]keepers joined academics ...
Boston Globe opposes Massachusetts mandatory labeling law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A BILL that would require labeling ...
“Sustainable intensification” in farming vs the alternative: Food shortages and unrest
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For researchers trying to ...
Genetic engineering allows crops to use water, soil nutrients more efficiently
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers with Arizona State ...
Are GMO-free Cheerios just a cynical marketing gimmick?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Big Giant Cereal Companies ...
Is Sen Murkowski’s opposition to GMO salmon in public’s or fishing industry’s interest?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After two decades in ...
Monsanto ≠ GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [A] growing ...
Nigerian agricultural experts see adoption of GMOs as a major economic development tool
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With the current population ...
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack answers questions about GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a brief interview, ...
Major grocery store chains in Canada stand by safety of GMOs, plan to sell any approved crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organization that represents ...
Why GMO labels should be voluntary like Kosher labels
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .If ...
GMO Bt corn reduces fungal toxins that pose threat to human health
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When people ask my ...
India GMO debate: Mustard poses no health or biodiversity risks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since transgenic mustard began ...
FactCheck: Alaska Sen. Murkowski spreads false claims about GMO salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski ...
These vitamin-fortified bananas might get you thinking differently about GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the winter of ...
Pakistan approves GMO corn, will pursue other GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The agri-business sector, reacting ...
Indian biotechnology regulators defer decision on import of GMO animal feed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The environment ministry has ...
Small food companies in New Hampshire feel pressure of Vermont’s GMO labeling law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genuine Local, the Meredith-based ...
As Big Food starts labeling products containing GMOs, will there be an effect on sales?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While food makers previously ...
Is GMO labeling a scare tactic?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. To be considered organic, ...
GMO labeling: Is it really about consumer choice?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently the Senate failed ...
First U.S. commercial-scale producer of cellulosic ethanol is shipping fuel
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Poet Inc., the nation’s ...
Restrictions on GMOs, consumer demands could lead to higher food prices in Canada
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food prices are up ...
Modern food technologies let us choose to spend time in the kitchen, or not to
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to a new ...
Iowa’s Sen. Grassley: Syngenta’s takeover by ChemChina could threaten U.S. food security
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. opposition to the ...
Kellogg will begin labeling products containing GMOs in April
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Kellogg Company — whose ...
