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.
Video: First world anti-GMO “food paranoia” harms developing world
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Rob Saik discusses how ...
What do GMO crops have to do with herbicide resistance?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Lately, we’ve been hearing ...
Dietary supplements: Low probability of benefit, high probability of illness
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Former NBA star Lamar ...
Nigeria evaluating nitrogen and water efficient salt tolerant GMO rice
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The federal government and ...
Genetically engineered spider silk in North Face’s new jacket
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. You can't tell just ...
Science, public will miss Kevin Folta’s public outreach on GMO literacy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When a science advocate’s ...
What does “organic” actually mean?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What does organic actually ...
GMO mustard developed in India cheaper, has higher yields, but activists claim it causes sterility
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Following news reports on ...
GMOs have won over many critics in food industry, but consumers cautious
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Who’s worried about GMOs? ...
Activist Vandana Shiva misappropriates Indian culture promoting anti-GMO agenda
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At the risk of ...
Golden Rice opens door for other vitamin enhanced GMO crops, such as cassava
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bangladesh announced last month that ...
Entomology study: Neonicotinoids increase yields for most rice farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In October 2014, the ...
Bacon may not be so bad after all, depending on your DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After the World Health ...
Keither Kloor examines Brooke Borel’s controversial article criticizing Kevin Folta GMO parody site
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How do journalists decide what ...
Lundgren whistleblower complaint claims USDA silencing scientists discussing controversial issues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Late last year, Jonathan ...
Already-developed whitefly resistant GMO cotton could have protected Indian crop
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a quiet corner ...
Will food policy become part of national political dialogue?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food is becoming political, ...
Fading organic movement ratchets up fear-based marketing campaign
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organic-products industry is ...
How to delay herbicide resistance and evolution of superweeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Back in 2006, Researchers from ...
Long history of E. coli and other food poisoning outbreaks at Chipotle
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Washington and Oregon Health ...
Argentina crop dispute: Will companies innovate if they are denied royalties?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On average, it takes ...
New Zealand open to GMO innovation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Environment Minister Nick Smith ...
Scientists, universities grapple with defining ‘conflict of interest’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There has been much ...
Carcinogenic conundrum: Why we fear glyphosate but love bacon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. But beyond putting the ...
EPA proposes ban on common pesticide, chlorpyrifos, used on fruit, vegetable crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chlorpyrifos, a common pesticide ...
WHO’s IARC erroneous classification of coffee as carcinogenic shows system broken
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organizations’s ...
Stop calling food ‘toxic’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I am tired of ...
