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.
Pesticide phobia: Everyday foods filled with (unharmful) pesticides
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While the perilous p-word ...
Philippines to allow GMO crops, Filipino farmers describe impact of biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Filipino farmers can now ...
Ugandan scientists develop wilt resistant GMO banana, field trials this year
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Crop scientists at National ...
Iowa Sen. Grassley: GMO labeling deal “unlikely” before VT law goes into effect
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sen. Chuck Grassley said ...
ConAgra, owner of Hunt’s, Healthy Choice, will label products containing GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. ConAgra Foods Inc on ...
Canada approves for sale non-browning, low acrylamide potato created using the New Breeding Technique RNA interference
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Health Canada and the ...
Australian organic farmer Marsh who sued for GMO contamination must pay Baxter $800k for court costs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A West Australian farmer ...
In Canada, many ‘non-GMO’ labels violate country’s labeling standards
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The challenge is we ...
Chronic exposure to neonicotinoid pesticide has no adverse effect on bumblebees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In recent years, many ...
Bayer board member says GMOs have ‘lost the debate in Europe’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bayer board member Kemal Malik ...
Indian seed companies: GMO cotton price control will hurt investment in development
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The latest row over ...
Vermont’s GMO labeling law causing increased costs, confusion for food makers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The country’s first law ...
Pesticides, fertilizers derived from microbes offer new frontier in agriculture
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chemicals are out. With ...
NY farmer: GMO labels are unnecessary, will hurt farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My family has been ...
Monsanto supports a national GMO labeling standard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .Listening ...
Mars Inc., announces it will label GMO ingredients on product packaging
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mars announced [March 21] it will ...
GMO label fallout: Higher production costs, fewer choices, lower nutrition
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Campbell's . . . called ...
Mark Bittman on labeling: It’s counterproductive for us to provide nutritional information
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I have been developing, ...
Monsanto’s Robb Fraley uses social media in effort to reach the masses on GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If social media has ...
General Mills to label products containing GMO ingredients
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. General Mills flew the ...
France moves step closer to total ban on neonicotinoid pesticides
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. French lawmakers approved plans ...
How can GMO labels compromise farmer needs with consumer wants?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Even if consumers shrug ...
Sonoma Co. considers ban on GMO cultivation, wine growers concerned
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
Using gene editing, scientists develop glyphosate resistant flax plant
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plant Physiology has published a ...
Hybrid seeds part of ‘green evolution’ that is improving agriculture in Africa
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. African agriculture is improving ...
Kenya conducting field trials on GMO maize, sorghum, cassava, cotton
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The National Biosafety Authority ...
Argentinian scientists genetically modify grass to improve fodder for livestock
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: This excerpt ...
