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.
A mess: PLOS mistakenly publishes rejected ADHD-herbicide paper, retracts it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. PLOS One has retracted ...
GM technology increases drought tolerance by protecting roots
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agriculture is estimated to ...
Monsanto may look to Bayer CropScience after abandoning Syngenta takeover
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto has abandoned its $47 ...
Yale professor dissects flawed anti-GMO commentary in New England Journal of Medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A recent commentary published ...
As Kenya prepares to lift ban on GMOs, critics say biotech crops aren’t only option to improve production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. The debate sparked by ...
For ideologues, from GMOs to fluoridation, science is battleground of “hand-picked truths”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. In the 1960s, with ...
GM plants great option for organic farmers but arbitrarily excluded
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Professor Ian Godwin from ...
‘GMO technology could become solution to, rather than cause of, food allergies’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2000 the FDA ...
Is organic farming and food a sustainable choice?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Producers of organic food ...
GMO crops benefit small vegetable farms as well as large industrial farms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Novel seed genetics—particularly GM ...
Hawaii activists marshall anecdotes to claim GMOs, pesticides linked to birth defects
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Local doctors find themselves ...
Following criticism, PLOS removes blog defending scrutiny of science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Community blog PLOS Biologue has pulled ...
Germany begins process to opt-out of EU rules and ban GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Germany has initiated a ...
Warning: Mandated GMO labeling comes at a cost
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. As economist David Henderson points ...
Dietary supplements filled with dangerous ingredients but “natural” industry blocks labeling, transparency
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Pieter Cohen, an internist in ...
Philadelphia Inquirer joins long list of prominent newspapers opposing GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. America's foremost nutritional problem ...
Organic food recalls due to bacterial contamination soaring
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. New data collected by Stericycle, ...
Non GMO salt? Water? Food companies exploit GMO free labels, misleading customers, promoting misinformation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Last year, Evolution Salt ...
GM trees that prevent pest disease tied up in regulation, anti-GMO attacks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. U.S. researchers say it ...
Targeting Kevin Folta for teaching genetics shows ethics of anti-GMO activist attackers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A well-respected researcher in ...
EPA, Monsanto ignore health risks of RNA interference technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Americans could soon be ...
Advances in genetic engineering highlights fractured regulatory structure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. As the battle over GMO labeling ...
Vandana Shiva’s ‘GMO myths’ don’t stand up to evidence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Vandana Shiva is one ...
Rice production could increase 33% with GM super-sized grains
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A newly discovered gene ...
Landrigan and Benbrook get it wrong on GMOs in New England Journal of Medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an opinion piece was ...
GM oilseed turns poor quality farmland into rich source of industrial biofuel
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A Kansas State University ...
Scotland’s GMO ban could leave its most valuable food export, farmed salmon, at disadvantage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Scottish ministers took another ...
