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.
‘FDA approval of genetically engineered salmon is win for environment’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After 20 years of ...
Christie Brinkley jumps on anti-GMO bandwagon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “What I don’t like ...
Scientists call out Indian government to reject activist agitatiton over GMO mustard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Activist Vandana Shiva, an ...
Uganda progresses in ag biotech research but lags behind in implementation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Kenya is about to ...
Neonicotinoids may impact individual honeybees different than hives
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. French researchers say neonicotinoid ...
Organic food sales rising but US acreage remains miniscule
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Despite the strong interest ...
American Bird Conservatory launches ‘scare campaign’ about neonics in Congressional food
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, the American Bird ...
Herbicide mixtures effective, but non-herbicide solutions necessary to combat evolution of weed resistance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In my last post, I ...
Regulatory breakthrough in Europe? Sweden says some gene edited plants not GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. CRISPR-Cas9 is a technique ...
American Academy of Pediatrics: ‘Antibiotics in animal feed endanger kids’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Overuse of antibiotics in ...
Justice department cracking down on self-regulated nutritional supplements industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. USPlabs, which made the ...
Fate of GMO mustard in India unclear: Project could lose over 50% of funding
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organisation funding the ...
Will combining ‘microbials’ and biotech be next big thing in agriculture?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When the word “biotech” ...
Lawsuit to block commercialization of GMOs in Ghana dismissed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An Accra Fast Track ...
Canadian environmentalists challenge GM salmon egg production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ecological groups will argue ...
Activists response to diseased African bananas: Don’t embrace GMO solution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Zen Honeycutt is the ...
Anti-GMO NGOs petition Obama, FDA to toughen regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Environment and food safety ...
Chinese state-owned firm acquisition of Syngenta could escalate country’s GMO development
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A successful bid by ...
Union of Concerned Scientists: ‘USDA does not invest sufficiently in agroecology’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our entrenched industrial agriculture system has ...
Malaysia poised to become pioneer in agricultural biotech crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Malaysia is the pioneer ...
Risk song: Many things can harm you (but glyphosate is not one of them)
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this video to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What have we learned from ...
Videos: GMOs pro and con at American College of Nutrition
The GLP aggregated and excerpted these videos to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. These two lectures on the ...
Western Australia expected to lift restrictions on new GM crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Legislation to repeal the Genetically ...
GMOs made using Agrobacterium, RNAi use natural processes, not ‘Frankenstein’ technologies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over 90 percent of ...
Girl Scouts reject activist demands for GMO-free cookies, side with science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This coming February, when ...
Non-browning Arctic apples could open door to consumer acceptance of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On a cloudless September morning, ...
GMO crops can’t help poor in developing world unless socioeconomic, political contexts considered
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The majority of GM crops are ...
