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.
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Everyone can participate in Biology Fortified’s GMO Corn Experiment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Do squirrels and other ...
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 ...
India’s farming industry responding to climate change challenges
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [F]armer Raman Bhai Parmar, ...
FOIA: For $100,000 Charles Benbrook offered to ‘ramrod’ ‘independent’ anti-GMO research for Australian activists
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Exposure of a private email ...
High tech agriculture and Big Data could yield farm bonanza
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the second millennium, ...
Gene modification does not destroy ‘natural’ food system, could promote organic farming
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Traditional breeding changes the ...
Leftwing defense of industrial agriculture: Best way to protect animal welfare
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Legislating [animal welfare] from ...
Nature Biotech: US Right to Know, Organic Consumers are “demagogues”, “anti-science zealots”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Smear campaigns against those ...
CRISPR gene edited food headed for dinner plates?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agricultural biotech giants are ...
What TPP means for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The TPP opened North ...
GMO technology that saved Montana’s sugar beets now tarnishing their reputation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Montana's sugar beet industry faces ...
Being anti-GMO ‘doesn’t make you anti-science’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Pro-GMO rhetoric has increased ...
Some speculate glyphosate leading to deer population decline as corn fields get less weedy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Whitetails have thrived in ...
