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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘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 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 ...
94 scientists back IARC’s glyphosate assessment, may influence EPA review of herbcide
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One year ago, an ...
Is framing the GMO regulation debate around ‘product vs process’ unscientific?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One issue that has ...
Malawi approves confined field trials of virus-resistant GMO bananas
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Malawi National Biosafety ...
Indian government caps GMO cotton price, cuts Monsanto seed royalties by 70 percent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. India cut the royalties ...
USA Today editorial: GMO labels scare consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mandatory [GMO] labeling — set ...
Are millennial ‘foodies’ ignoring important issues in food policy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With a spending power ...
Beneficial bacteria could reduce need for crop fertilizers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bacteria discovered by scientists ...
To reduce price of GMO cotton seed, should India regulate royalty fees or promote competition?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The row between the ...
Would ‘USDA Process Verified’ label for GMO-free foods be a marketplace driven solution?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The United States Department ...
