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.
CRISPR poses challenges to regulators of traditional crop biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The genome editing technique ...
Bt cotton not to blame for Indian whitefly epidemic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Widespread damage to cotton ...
Organic and conventional farmer walk into a bar…
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. People are becoming less ...
Biotech advocates misjudged depth of distrust of corporations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What’s most puzzling to ...
Europe’s “coalition of the ignorant” opposes GMOs, hurt poorer countries
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Call it the “Coalition ...
GMO cassava could alleviate B6 deficiency in developing nations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In sub-Saharan Africa, cassava ...
Journalists face own conflicts of interest challenges in covering controversial science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In my recent article ...
European Food Safety Authority challenged to educate public on nuances of GMO risk analysis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In most cases, the European ...
Senate panel warms to GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On October 21st, for ...
Biotech key to increasing yields to meet growing global food demands
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The world population is ...
Voice your thoughts on White house biotech regulation reform proposal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The White House Office of ...
Audit: USDA regulators don’t consider past non-compliance when approving biotech field trials
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. USDA’s biotechnology regulators don’t ...
National GMO import bans not sustainable for EU livestock production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In mid-October, members of ...
Have EU politicians ‘abdicated role as leaders’ on GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic farming has a ...
Canada’s regulation of new crops based on trait novelty, not process by which trait introduced
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Novel traits are used ...
CRISPR: ‘When research has regulatory, not scientific goal, regulations must be fixed’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists say they hope to avoid ...
San Francisco dog owners claim glyphosate caused pets’ cancer, petition city parks to ban it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dog owners across San ...
Jane Goodall amplifies glyphosate fears in interview with university newspaper
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In July 1960, Jane ...
GMO satire broadcast raises questions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Vern Blazek Science ...
Gene editing could circumvent restrictive GMO regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plant scientists have been quick ...
Art Caplan: Food industry should adopt voluntary GMO labels
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I'm Art Caplan at ...
Upcoming EU vote to opt out of GMO soy imports could hurt farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A controversial proposal scheduled ...
Improving open records rules can provide transparency, protect scientists from harassment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some argue that we ...
Senate Agricultural Committee will hear testimony Oct. 21 on GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The battle over whether ...
Europe debating how to regulate emerging genome editing technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. EU policymakers are about ...
‘Narcissistic food intolerance epidemic’ rages among affluent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Friends in Venice saw a restaurant ...
Prominent anti-GMO critic praises Cornell’s Alliance for Science for constructive debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Something important just happened ...
