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.
Scientists in Myanmar field test GMO groundnut
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Testing of a high-yield ...
Chef Tom Colicchio, Rep. Pingree lead group to convert Cuba into major US organic supplier
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cuban farms could one ...
GMOs could address climate change but campaigning NGOs blocking it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology is a platform ...
EU delays decision on whether gene edited crops fall under existing GMO laws
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Commission has ...
Denver Post editorial: In banning GMO crops, Boulder County organic activists overrun science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers must overcome damaging ...
To maintain yields without herbicides, U.S. would need 55 million laborers to hand weed crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Do you ever wonder ...
Tom Philpott: GMOs safe, but pesticide concerns argue for ‘right to know’ labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the past few ...
Anti-GMO activist’s talk moved from museum after failure to produce supporting data
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The story was a ...
Five common myths about Monsanto
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As a liberal and ...
Activists sue FDA, claim agency has no authority to approve genetically modified animals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Environmental groups filed a ...
Big Food companies voluntarily labeling GMO products in U.S. will not label them in Canada
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Companies planning to voluntarily ...
Nigerian textile industry says approval of GMO cotton will create jobs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 500,000 Nigerians ...
Will GMO labeling deprive anti-GMO activists of their best ammunition?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It would appear that ...
Del Monte goes GMO-free
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As investors seek more ...
White strawberries, product of selective breeding, debut in Australia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A freaky-looking hybrid strawberry that ...
Mark Lynas: Anti-GMO, anti-vaccine movements are linked
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . ...
EPA’s management of herbicide resistance in weeds will be investigated
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Herbicide-resistant weed worries continue ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
