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.
American Farm Bureau disappointed by failure of bill to preempt state GMO labeling laws
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The votes weren't there ...
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 ...
Are other crop improvement techniques overtaking GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This may come as ...
Monsanto ‘welcome to leave India,’ government says it will develop own GMO seeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. seed company Monsanto ...
Vermont farmers concerned about soil, water, livestock–That’s why they use GMO seeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Why do the farmers ...
‘Unscientific’ moratorium on GMO eggplant in India in seventh year
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. February 10 has increasingly ...
A bill to block GMO labeling fails key Senate vote
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A bill that would ...
Can food policy reform benefit health, environment, economy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The nation’s food system ...
Another paper by Italian research team raising GMO safety concerns retracted
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A researcher who published ...
Downside trade-offs of reducing glyphosate use
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some of the costs of ...
WA state: Food Democracy Action! hid anti-GMO donors from public in state labeling campaign
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Washington Attorney General Bob ...
Iowa State students protest GMO banana that could alleviate vitamin A deficiency
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Student activists at Iowa ...
Senate votes on SmartLabel for GMO labeling, would preempt Vermont’s mandatory standard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
Michigan Sen Stabenow opposes SmartLabel bill after fundraiser with Big Organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Four organic-food industry executives ...
Big Food broke ‘spirit, letter’ of law in campaign against WA state’s GMO labeling initiative
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The nation’s largest food ...
Whole Foods to require GMO labels on all products in store by 2018
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Whole Foods has announced ...
Did Monsanto doom GMOs in public mind by tying them to pesticides?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .[W]ho thinks ...
Will India’s cotton revolution be undone by government control of GMO seed royalties?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It was March 26, ...
Time might be right for rational discussion about GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [F]or ...
Amid increasing legume demand, India looks to transgenic varieties to increase production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Modi government is ...
‘Atomic gardening’ created many of today’s crops with x-ray machines or at nuclear test sites
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Back in the mid-20th ...
Zimbabwe’s rejection of food aid containing GMOs worrisome for country’s poor, hungry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My country’s government would ...
Counterfeit agricultural chemicals may be contributing to low crop yields in Ghana
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The influx of fake ...
Organic cotton clothing company blames GMOs for Indian farmer suicides in underwear ad
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “We want to make ...
Why have GMO foods failed to gain approval in India?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a research laboratory ...
CRISPR’s gene-edited crops might provide an opportunity to revamp biotech regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Thanks to entirely specious fears about ...
Why is there controversy about GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The biggest issue regarding ...
