Agriculture & Food
We eat to live. Humans use approximately 11% of Earth’s land for the cultivation of crops for food, but also for clothing, medicine and biofuels. Globally, major crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize (corn), wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton.
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Viewpoint: When it comes to chemicals in medicine and agriculture, ‘natural’ is often less safe than synthetic
Almost nothing in your life is natural. And that’s a good thing. Take a look around—your smartphone, your fridge, your ...
‘We were lied to’: Will Trump’s order to increase the domestic supply of the weedkiller glyphosate split MAHA?
[T]he executive order Mr. Trump issued February 17 to increase domestic production of glyphosate — a widely used weedkiller and ...
Gene-edited foods are advancing fast—but commercialization and consumer acceptance lag
[A]s gene editing matures, another reality has come into focus. The science accelerates. Commercialization does not. That tension surfaced during ...
9 top RFK, Jr. science controversies
From sweeping changes to vaccination protocols to scientifically dubious assertions about a host of childhood maladies, here are some of ...
GM mushrooms taste like meat but use 70% less land than livestock
Imagine picking up something that looks and chews like chicken, only it never clucked, never set foot on a farm, ...
Viewpoint — Parts per billion, panic per bite: Healthy Florida First food hysteria and the war on modern agriculture
The Make America Healthy Again coalition is at it again. An increasingly organized alliance of anti-vaccine activists, environmental litigators, and ...
Bayer agrees to pay $7.2 billion to settle thousands of Roundup suits, bringing total payout to more than $18 billion
Bayer, the German bio-tech giant, has proposed paying $7.25bn ... to definitively resolve a legal battle in the US over ...
GLP spaces on X: Florida’s anti-glyphosate hysteria, dissected
Panic erupted in Florida earlier this month after surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo held a press conference launching the state's ...
Pesticides in the crosshairs as MAHA goes head to head with Republican establishment
Republicans are using the farm bill to take another swing at passing legislation to protect pesticides, something sure to anger ...
‘Not backed by evidence’: RFK, Jr. wrongly claims that keto diet can cure schizophrenia
... Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s claim that a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet may cure certain psychiatric conditions is misleading and not ...
Viewpoint: How increasingly politicized foundations use dark money contributions to bolster advocacy campaigns at odds with science
Western societies are creating billionaires at an unprecedented rate. But these newly minted accidental philanthropists are not like the Rockefellers, ...
Trump-RFK Jr.’s FDA in science freefall: The leucovorin autism “cure” fiasco is one of many
The Food and Drug Administration is looking less and less like a regulator than a circus, with fresh, disconcerting episodes ...
Viewpoint: Why has organic and sustainable farming veered so far away from the scientific evidence?
The Trump administration’s US$700 million Regenerative Pilot Program, announced in late 2025, is one of the most significant federal investments ...
Unpasteurized milk scandal: 2% of the U.S. drinks unpasteurized milk but it causes 22x more infections
Consumption of unpasteurised milk in the United States has presented a public health challenge for decades because of the increased ...
Should you follow RFK, Jr.’s guidance to replace seed oils in your diet with beef tallow? Not if you want to stay healthier
“Make frying oil tallow again,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. And just like that, Steak ...
France launches 4-part plan to counter health disinformation
Faced with the rapid growth of information channels, the rise of social networks, and the virality of false or misleading ...
Disinformation exploding on TikTok about agriculture and food
In an alarming development for food manufacturers, new research has revealed that over a third of Gen Z would rather ...
Despite $12 billion in losses defending the safety of glyphosate, Bayer reiterates support for the herbicide
There may be a day when Bayer Crop Science decides it needs to exit the glyphosate business, George Gough, director ...
Repurposing the husks and other fibrous residue from seed crops could be converted into carbon-storing building supplies
Agricultural waste that is usually burned or left to rot could play a far bigger role in tackling climate change ...
Destructive peddlers of health misinformation: Social media influencers
Social media is awash with influencers vying for our attention so they can profit by selling their courses and hawking ...
Destructive peddlers of health misinformation: Culture wars
In 2019, a landmark paper, called EAT-Lancet, was published. It was written by tens of authors across multiple institutions. The purpose ...
MAHA’s obsession with raw milk kills New Mexico newborn
A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw ...
MAHA turns its ire towards what it claims are unsafe, industry-friendly EPA chemical rules
Last year, prominent activist Kelly Ryerson was so frustrated with the EPA ... that she and other MAHA supporters drew ...
Viewpoint: The D’Adamos family: Profile of wellness grifters
Despite years of scientific consensus debunking the "Blood Type Diet," the D’Adamo family has successfully transformed a biological myth into ...
Consumer alert: ‘Natural,’ ‘Low fat’ and ‘light’ are among many unregulated labels that confuse food shopper
The world of food labeling and marketing is often an impenetrable forest of terms, numbers, and nutritional facts that turns ...
Spewing misinformation about cultivated meat, Arizona lawmaker wants to send science innovators to prison
The season of state-level attempts to ban cultivated meat has begun. [In January], policymakers in Virginia, South Dakota, and Arizona ...
Regenerative agriculture gets a star turn with “health guru” RFK, Jr. and the Trump Administration. What could go wrong? (Plenty)
Who would have thought the Trump administration would be championing “regenerative” farming — an approach long associated with progressive food ...
