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.
While attempt to save American chestnut through cross-breeding flagging, GMO seeds expect to be ready in 3-5 years
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. New Hampshire is home ...
Gatorade jumps on organic marketing bandwagon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gatorade is the leading ...
CRISPR edited bacteria hold great potential for cultured foods, probiotics, list goes on
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The on-going CRISPR craze ...
Did 2015 mark start of ‘transparency paradigm shift’ for Big Food?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Today’s big food and ...
Consumer comfort with GMOs linked to which companies thought to make them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The December 2015 edition of ...
Australian, New Zealand food regulators soon to decide if gene-edited crops are GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Australia's food regulator, Food ...
House of Lords says UK has ‘moral duty’ to test disease-preventing GMO insects, enraging opponents
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Britain should challenge "woefully ...
Much protested Thai bill to grow, regulate GMOs killed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ...
The next big food safety technology could be from this ancient root
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What if our next-generation, futuristic ...
Nobel laureate Sir Richard John Roberts: ‘Opposition to GMOs by greens appalling’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetically modified food is ...
Dow-Dupont merger creates agricultural giant
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. chemical titans Dow ...
Gene editing protects pigs from untreatable virus, without adding foreign DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This latest [genetic engineering] ...
Omnibus spending bill does not include GMO labeling, blocks sale of GM salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A sweeping $1.1 trillion ...
Eating your veggies may be good for your health, not for the planet
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Contrary to recent headlines ...
Chef Tom Colicchio: ‘Let consumers make their own choices. Label GMOs’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Tom Colicchio is a ...
Tropicana’s non-GMO label ‘is marketing, not transparency’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. PepsiCo’s Tropicana Pure Premium ...
Philippine’s ban on GMO eggplant a defeat for science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. THE DECISION by the ...
European researchers in limbo waiting for EU’s decision on whether CRISPR plants are GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plant geneticist Stefan Jansson ...
Chipotle in ‘fiasco vortex’ after multiple food safety problems
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . For at ...
‘GMO wheat’? They’re already eating it in Europe– They call it ‘organic’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Here’s my summary of ...
Gene edited crops present PR challenge, innovation opportunity
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recent advances in the ...
Has GMO Bt cotton been a “disaster” for India, as Vandana Shiva claims?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Private seed firms in ...
Decisions about neonicotinoids should be ‘science-driven not ‘activist-driven’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Neonicotinoid pesticide use is ...
Scientists have discovered wheat gene that provides resistance to fungal diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have sequenced and ...
Video: Cornell Prof Peter Davies on how to evaluate evidence for and against GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this video to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Professor Peter Davies, a plant ...
Farmer generation gap? Father and son split on use of herbicides to control weeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Father [Bach Bakehouse] and ...
Politics of GMOs in India: Bt cotton vs. Bt brinjal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We must begin with ...
