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.
GMO critics claim safety consensus manufactured by industry lobbyists, fellow travelers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A Tufts researcher, Sheldon Krimsky, ...
Grocery Manufacturers, biotech giants spend big bucks promoting GM salmon, voluntary GMO labeling laws
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Americans want a more ...
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 ...
Are GMOs and herbicides safe? New England Journal of Medicine commentary casts doubt
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this commentary to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's Note: For a profile ...
GM algae could dramatically cut carbon emissions to produce ‘greener’ plastics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. From polyester shirts to ...
European public scientists urge Scotland to reverse ‘political’ GMO ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A powerful group of ...
Matt Ridley: Greens scare mongering on GMOs, fracking, pesticides blunts access to safer technologies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. The public has increasingly ...
Activist beekeepers sue EPA for not moving to restrict neonicotinoids
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. With their livelihoods in ...
Folta: PLoS should retract Thacker and Seife article, issue apology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. I'm furious about the ...
Environmental activists claim “misguided war” on invasive plants is big business for Monsanto, glyphosate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Nowadays, the notion that ...
Genetically modifying crops to improve photosynthesis could boost yields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Unless we increase the ...
Possibility of GMOs reducing genetic diversity, resilience of wild populations causes concern
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many are concerned that GMOs will ...
As sea levels rise, GMO salt-tolerant crops could address urgent need
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sea rise, one of ...
Foreign spies now stealing GMO secrets, not just military secrets
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, the FBI caught ...
Can organic farming sustainably feed the developing world?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2030, the world ...
GMO debate may hinder progress of RNA interference biotechnology in Europe
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The debate around genetically ...
Slate guts scare-mongering doc ‘That Sugar Film’ featured uncritically by NY Times
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
Why the Millennial Generation might embrace GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The natural-foods craze has ...
Could non GMO hybrid wine grapes create a Napa Valley in South Dakota?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Wine grapes specially bred ...
Nassim Taleb escalates ‘boorish attacks’ on GMO science supporters
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Communicating science to lay ...
GMOs changed how pesticides used, cutting overall usage but raising health questions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMOs have been changing ...
Union of Concerned Scientists joins criticism of USRTK, PLoS on biotech science literacy “transparency”
UCS joins a growing list of independent groups criticizing Paul Thacker and Charles Seife for misrepresentations in their article savaging ...
Specter of Agent Orange haunts introduction of GMOs to Vietnam
When Vietnam moved economically from communism to capitalism in the 1980s, it enjoyed an agriculture boom that lifted millions from ...
Scotland accused of playing politics, subverting science with GMO ban
Scotland’s government has decided to prohibit the growing of genetically modified crops. Their main rationale is to avoid any possibility that premium ...
China develops non-GMO vitamin enhanced “golden scallop” that could address malnutrition
Chinese scientists have developed the world's first golden scallop in what they say could be a major advancement in reducing ...
Greenpeace provokes India’s ire: Crumbling credibility and waning power of global activist power
Editor's Note: Greenpeace has led an aggressive campaign against GMOs in India, demanding that they be banned. It's mounted high ...
Bangladesh’s Bt brinjal, maligned by activists, reduces pesticide use, boosts farmer profits
Brinjal is a popular vegetable which is grown year round all over Bangladesh. The brinjal shoot and fruit borer is ...
