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.
USDA takes aim at Chinese farmland holdings amid rising national security concerns
U.S. Department of Agriculture chief Brooke Rollins announced...that the U.S. government will move to ban sales of farmland nationwide to ...
Will AI undermine or advance the fast-growing regenerative agriculture movement?
For many, the essence of regenerative agriculture lies in working with nature, not against it. This perspective often views high-tech ...
Gene editing may be the only hope to combat the citrus greening scourge
CRISPR is now steering fresh new advancements in agriculture, particularly in combating Huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening, a ...
Viewpoint: Can gene editing address the looming food supply crisis?
As our civilization faces the conjunction of rising population and climate instability, the question of food security is rising back ...
Farm chemicals and technology: Challenges, risks and opportunities
Agricultural chemicals, including insecticides, pesticides, herbicides, and plant growth regulators, are indispensable tools in modern farming. They play a crucial ...
China, U.S. and Australia emerge as central hub of smart agriculture as AI and new technologies revolutionize farming
A bibliometric analysis published in Agriculture...maps the explosive growth of digital agriculture research from 1979 to 2025. ... Using Web of ...
Decades of fishing permanently rewired the DNA of cod
According to researchers from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, decades of intense fishing pressure didn’t just reduce the [cod] ...
Could soybeans replace toxic foams used to douse fires to cut down on spraying toxic chemicals?
Cross Plains began to look into creating a PFAS-free, soy-based firefighting foam after being approached by the United Soybean Board ...
Viewpoint: Food as medicine — with obesity and medical-related issues growing, we need to refocus our perspective on fruits and vegetables
University of Florida researchers are calling for a national transformation in how we address the ongoing epidemic of obesity and ...
Viewpoint: Anti-pesticide activism in Kenya could lead to a repeat of Sri Lanka’s disastrous rejection of pesticides five years ago
In 2025, Kenya demonstrates why scientists plead for evidence-based pest control policies, as the country succumbs to misinformation with devastating ...
Does reverse evolution exist? Tomatoes grown on the Galapagos Islands appear to be de-evolving
Researchers argue that despite how controversial it might sound, tomatoes in the Galápagos actually seem to be going backwards, not ...
Viewpoint: Correlation vs. Causation: How epidemiological studies misleads regulators, misrepresents risk and feeds chemophobia
In 1915's The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why alcohol needed to ...
Australia’s deregulation of gene edited foods moves forward despite organic industry opposition
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has approved updated definitions for genetically modified (GM) food in the Australia New Zealand Food ...
Lab-grown salmon on sale in the U.S.: First seafood to earn FDA approval
The Coho salmon, pinkish orange and streaked with lines of white fat, wasn’t wild-caught in Alaska or farmed in Chile. It ...
Viewpoint: The case for Malaysia to develop gene edited fruits
The government’s recent decision to impose a tax on imported fruits to support local farmers is, in principle, a positive ...
Engineered yeast turns human urine in wastewater into dental and bone implants
A research team including a materials scientist at the University of California, Irvine has engineered a yeast platform that converts ...
Viewpoint: Junk science in Canada: Courts confront rise in bogus claims by environmentalists
When it comes to government policy and lawmaking, there may ultimately be only one way to unravel the mysteries of ...
Europe struggles to innovate in agriculture to meet rising sustainability challenges
While maintaining economic growth and mitigating climate-induced failures remain high on the European agriculture agenda, recent protectionist policies have resulted ...
Agricultural sustainability conflict: Little common ground between supporters of intensification and agroecology
There is broad global consensus that our interactions with nature are unsustainable and need to change. Agriculture is a case ...
Falling future yields: Farmers will be unable to adapt to destabilizing climate change
The global food system faces growing risks from climate change, even as farmers seek to adapt, according to a June ...
Rwanda piloting the introduction of genetically modified cassava, Irish potato and corn
Rwanda plans to pilot the growing of three biotech crops, namely cassava, Irish potato and maize to evaluate their performance ...
Biotechnology caucus: Congress establishes bipartisan coalition to advocate for agricultural and health innovation
...Representatives Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) and Stephanie Bice (R-OK) announced the formation of the BIOTech Caucus. The Caucus’ mission is to advance bipartisan policy solutions ...
Why there are tort cases targeting chemicals and corporations in the U.S. but not in Canada
It was January 16, 2016. I was white-knuckling it down Missouri’s highway 44, heading to my new job at Monsanto ...
Nanny state hypocrisy: When Michelle Obama advocated improving American’s diet, she was mocked. Now it’s mainstream MAHA
Before there was MAHA, there was Michelle. Anyone following the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again ...
Food and farming industry pushes back against RFK, Jr.’s MAHA-targeting of agricultural chemicals
The MAHA movement argues that a heavily consolidated and industrialized U.S. food industry is the central factor in Americans’ high ...
Viewpoint: Pro-Trump farmers struggle, some face bankruptcy with cancellations of agriculture-friendly programs
JJ was an American farmer, perpetually subject to weather, labor, loans, overhead, markets, health, politics. None of it was predictable, ...
Profiles of the 10 top global cultured meat companies
An unsustainable demand for meat has led to companies looking for alternative solutions to conventional farming methods in order to ...
