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.
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 ...
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 ...
Synbio flavors are natural, sustainable and GMO free but won’t get Non-GMO stamp
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Synthetic biology will become ...
Organic farmer, facing $800,00 liability, ponders appeal after losing Australia “contamination” case
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. TWO out of three ...
Despite anti-GMO campaign, Ghana poised to commercialize GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Despite the sustained campaign ...
‘Ban bad capitalist behavior,’ not GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The common cliché says ...
Nigerian scientist: Activists slander benefits of GMOs, hurt poor Africans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While there are unproven ...
Marion Nestle: ‘Conflicted studies conflicted if biotech or organic lobby pays for them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On August 6, the New ...
After long delay, Indian government considers GMO field trial applications
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After more than a ...
With maize crop decimated by drought, South Africa looks to genetically modified varieties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Grain SA said South ...
‘GMO-free’ marketing: Targeting your health or your wallet?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Companies are changing their ...
Parched Canadian summer spurs researchers to seek out tree seedlings with hardier DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A search is underway ...
Transgenic animals that could fight diseases in developing world blocked by indifference
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UC Davis professor, Dr ...
Corn: Balancing demands for food and biofuel tricky
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Corn is the main ...
Could more cautious GMO regulation win over skeptical public in US?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Europe’s debate about GM ...
Organic coop critical of GMOs joins Cornell bio group decrying censorship by anti-GMO activists
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Cornell Alliance for ...
Chipotle’s anti-GMO claims sow legal minefield for companies advertising themselves as non GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chipotle says it will ...
Can the Chinese government overcome public mistrust of GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In China, food security ...
GMOs and herbicide resistant weeds stumbling blocks to sustainable farming
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Have we become more ...
Marsh v Baxter: Organic farmer loses appeal, ordered to pay $800,000 as pleas grow for farm ‘co-existence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On September 3, the ...
