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.
Monsanto CEO: GMO debate doesn’t need to be ‘either/or’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto has become a ...
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 ...
Will banana crisis force more rational consideration of GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Washington Post recently reported on ...
Food Industry pushes to include GMO labeling ban in year end spending bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food companies are mounting ...
Thai scientist argues country ready for GM crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Standing in the frontline of ...
CRISPR crops could help solve hunger, climate change challenges if they avoid PR mistakes of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As Newsweek pointed out ...
Anti-GMO movement ‘on shaky ground’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Liberal foodies are on ...
After repeated health code violations, Seattle Chipotle restaurant closed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Seattle health officials closed ...
Mommy Food War: Not all organic moms are ‘sancti-mommies’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Jenny Splitter’s ultimate premise in ...
Gene-edited pigs resistant to deadly virus may be ‘game-changer’ for pork producers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since the Porcine Reproductive ...
Time for genetically modified organic grown food?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic farmers really do ...
Surging Non-GMO sales have organic industry in a panic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Natural-foods makers have spent ...
FDA approves transgenic chicken that produces lifesaving drug in its eggs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Food and ...
Genetically modifying yeast for new flavors in beer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers are toying with ...
In New Zealand, dramatic public shift in favor of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. From 2001 to 2014 ...
Philippine Supreme Court blocks field testing of GMO Bt eggplant
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Supreme Court [Philippines] ...
Chipotle’s troubles raise doubts about ‘fresh and local’ strategy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The E. coli outbreak ...
Anti-GMO Japanese groups target US approved GMO salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Center for Food Safety ...
Jackson County, Oregon GMO alfalfa ban will stand
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A proposed settlement has ...
Putin wants to establish Russia as world organic capitol
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an address to ...
How to restore soil health and fight climate change
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We think of climate ...
Monsanto on trial for crimes against humanity? Not really
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Monsanto on trial for ...
Pakistan opens door to GM crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The plant breeders rights ...
Unable to sell GMO corn at home, Chinese biotech firm looks to US market
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Chinese biotech seed ...
Chipotle’s poisoned food crisis spreads, infects Boston College basketball team
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At least half of ...
Soil degradation reducing arable land, biotechnology may be part of solution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The world has lost ...
