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.
World’s ’17 most dangerous foods’ includes no GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A list of the ...
NZ farm group on Australian court ruling: ‘all farmers have duty to make co-existence work’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Western Australian Court ...
US overturns approval of sulfoxaflor, only neonicotinoid approved in EU
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A worldwide dispute over ...
World faces many problems– why talk about GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Why are we still ...
‘McCarthy-style’ attacks on biotech scientist amplified by NYT, Chronicle of Higher Ed.
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: Jean Goodwin ...
Why Ben and Jerry’s, Non-GMO project, others oppose SAFE Act
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. From my perspective, HR1599 ...
Moms defending science, GMOs in culture of alarmism
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Julie Gunlock, IWF's Culture ...
Fear of rogue organism, global catastrophe drives anti-GMO hysteria
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Are GMOs just too ...
Do anti-GMO activists use ‘tobacco science’?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Credible Hulk has ...
Anti-GMO activists promote flawed paper claiming GMO soy accumulates formaldehyde
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists occasionally “go rogue,” ...
Should emotional issues like GMOs require higher standard of conflict of interest disclosure?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMOs are an emotionally charged ...
Un-trendy reasons NOT to feed your family organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When I read Mamavation's ...
Non-GMO Project objects to competition, opposes federal voluntary labeling standard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While supporters of Rep ...
Allowing EU states to ban GM feed would threaten European animal food production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On September 10th, the agriculture ...
Dangerous chemicals causing sex changes in frogs? Yes, natural ones
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's not easy being ...
As GMO labeling debate shifts to Senate, lobbying dollars flow
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Combatants in a national ...
Academic scientists’ participation in GMO debate neither new nor ‘inappropriate’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Academic scientists have played ...
GMOs and patent laws: No Monsanto does not sue innocent farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There is a popular ...
Are scientists who collaborate with industry tainted?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When does conflict of ...
Tufts nutrition expert navigates ‘destructive debate’ over GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's Note] Parke Wilde ...
GMOs gaining favor in US, Australia has potential to lead in biotech if ‘hard choices’ made
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An American journalist, scholar ...
Australian organic industry trying to bully GMOs out of existence with zero tolerance contamination policy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Visiting US journalist Jon Entine ...
Chinese farmers illegally growing GMO soybeans to achieve higher yields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers in Heilongjiang Province ...
Kashi pays $3.99m to settle suit claiming it misleading labeled food ‘all natural’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A federal judge in ...
Leading bioethicist says food industry should voluntarily label GMO foods
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Should labels be required ...
In GMO debate, science deniers, false equivalence contributes to ‘mobocratization’ of science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Denialism, also known as ...
Effective science communication, personal engagement changes anti-GMO bloggers mind
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I used to be ...
