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.
‘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 ...
Field trials of GMO crops in EU countries virtually nonexistent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2015 the field ...
Biotechnology, supercomputer take on cassava pests, disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Perth team is ...
Campaign to put Nobel Prize-winning maize geneticist Barbara McClintock on $10 bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On June 16th the U.S ...
Citizen science will test hypothesis that wild animals avoid GMO corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One frequent Internet claim ...
Next agricultural revolution in Africa will be aided by biotechnology, digital technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. African agriculture has long ...
Biotech selected microbes improves crop yield, reduces diease and fertilizer use
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Davis biotechnology company BioConsortia Inc. has ...
Many parents buy into ‘faulty premise’ that organic safer for kids
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is almost a ...
German demand for non-GMO livestock feed may heavily influence soy production in Brazil
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There is a now ...
Ethiopia ‘should support domestic crop biotechnology research and development’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Ethiopian government has ...
Americans care most about food safety, nutrition, cost, care less about GMOs, sustainability
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The hot topic of food ...
Is the organic movement really ‘a scam’?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After my last article, ...
Food secure Western countries may reject GMOs, but Uganda needs them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, Daily Monitor published ...
GMO corn debate in Mexico dominated by biodiversity concerns
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Corn is Mexico’s principle ...
Facing drought, Africa ‘doesn’t need handouts, needs technology like GMOs’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My continent of Africa ...
Do industrial agricultural methods actually yield more food per acre than organic ones?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If we choose to ...
With Canada’s federal election nearing, politicians grilled about GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a federal election ...
Glyphosate cleared as danger to honey bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In September, researchers from ...
EU Parliament committee rejects limitations on GMO food or feed imports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A draft law that ...
“End of Plenty” book warns of global food crisis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Squeezing ever-higher yields from ...
India GMO Bt cotton falsely blamed for whitefly pest infestation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology industry body ABLE-AG ...
Biotech companies should release all GMO study results
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The larger problem in ...
GMO-conventional-organic crop coexistence challenges in the developing world
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Non-food, field crops like ...
Is Monsanto’s focus on crop biotechnology backfiring?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Pity Monsanto, the genetically ...
BASF teams with Monsanto in developing super-long high-yield corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since their introduction in ...
Why Norman Borlaug is a hero
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Most people in the ...
