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.
Clinton, Sanders say GMOs safe but back some form of labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As Iowa's January primary ...
Washington, Oregon investigating massive food poisoning outbreak at Chipotle
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. All Chipotle restaurants in ...
Genetic engineering could save UK’s ash trees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetically modified ash trees ...
Argentina developing eagerly anticipated drought tolerant GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sunflowers are hardy, tolerating heat ...
Should journalists speak at science industry financed outreach events?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With media budgets shrinking, it’s common ...
Researchers now believe ‘bees addicted to neonics’ study was wrong
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What does the media ...
How to combat herbicide resistance: Use more herbicide
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A while ago, I wrote ...
Reinventing bread to make it tasty and nutritious
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Before the advent of ...
Why scientists are withdrawing from public conversation on GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since July, controversy has ...
Halloween trick? Challenges to ‘deeply flawed’ sugar scare study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new study claims that ...
Ghana faces biotech research, funding crisis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dr. Marian D. Quain, ...
Labeling GMOs not equivalent to nutritional labels, will be costly
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the fight over ...
USAID to support development of Simplot blight resistant potato for Asia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. J.R. Simplot Co., in ...
EU assembly votes against proposal allowing members to opt out of GMO imports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Union assembly ...
Top Twitter influencers in GMO-organic debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We were very interested ...
Google search engine bias promotes scare views of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Misinformation has become a ...
Chipotle touts its GMO-free food, remains silent on sustainability practices
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chipotle is getting heat ...
Subway’s phase out of meat raised with antibiotics smart, kowtowing to activists not always wise
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Subway, the sandwich chain, ...
Tanzania to start confined field trials of drought-resistant GMO maize in 2016
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Tanzania plans to conduct ...
Congressman, professor argue organics promotes sustainable sustainability
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organization’s ...
Need baseline risk to understand meat or other cancer scares
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you paid attention ...
Omega-2 oil squalene may soon be produced in biotech tobacco rather than extracted from sharks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For years, the coveted ...
Antioxidant producing GMO tomatoes could lead to inexpensive medicinal compounds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Just one of the ...
International Agency of Research into Cancer (IARC) is ‘confusogenic to humans”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The International Agency of Research ...
WHO’s IARC: Red meat is as ‘dangerous’ as glyphosate (and 476 other carcinogenic threats)
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organization's ...
Ecomodernism embraces GMOs, unites moms of different political stripes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Can we move past the ...
How Europe is starving Africa by blocking GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is estimated that ...
