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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Re-purposing the cellular waste from wheat and oats to sustainably make clothing
Making clothing from water-intensive cotton has a major impact on the climate. That’s why cellulose from other raw materials has ...
Germany experiments with blending organic agriculture with agroecology principles
Germany has a long-standing tradition of organic farming, supported by an established certification system and widely known by producers and ...
Viewpoint: From farm to famine? Kenya risks a Sri Lanka-style collapse over pesticide politics
In 2025, Kenya, its farmers, and its consumers will deliver a world demonstration of why scientists have been pleading for ...
Planting roots of resilience: How agroforestry helps farmers weather the climate crisis
Although climate change is making it harder to achieve sustainable agriculture, there is hope. “Fortunately, many of the practices that ...
From cells to sashimi: Lab-grown salmon and the future of sustainable seafood
The world has become increasingly more concerned about environmental sustainability, food security, and ethical sourcing, making lab-grown or cultivated meat ...
Kennedy vs. Kennedy: The FDA remains silent on Ractopamine, America’s most controversial pork additive
For over a decade, a group of food safety, environmental, and animal welfare nonprofits has petitioned the US Food and ...
Rise of the robot farmer: How AI could reprogram global agriculture
Global agriculture is undergoing a technological renewal as the world continues to face problems, such as climate change, rising food ...
Feeding 10 billion in 2070: Deloitte’s vision for a food system transformation
By 2070, the global population is expected to reach nearly 10 billion, requiring a 40% increase in calorie production to ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate’s often overlooked role in sustainable farming
What IF glyphosate didn’t exist? The best answer to that question comes from Aimpoint Research. The food / ag wargame ...
Viewpoint: From tools to systems, the future of farming requires an AGI-driven design
For a long time, agriculture was about scale. More acres. More calories. More inputs. That worked, until it didn’t. The ...
Kraft, Pepsico and Tyson move to remove synthetic food dyes
Major food company Kraft Heinz said it will remove all chemical, artificial dyes from its food products following Health Secretary ...
As clouds form over migrant farm workers, industry looks towards AI and robotics
As domestic interest in farm work has declined, specialty growers are increasingly reliant on migrants who enter the country legally ...
Smart cities, smart farms: The rise of vertical farming in global urban agriculture
Climate-smart innovations combined with efforts to achieve food self-sufficiency are fueling the swift expansion of the global vertical farming market ...
Viewpoint: Misplaced MAHA health strategy: Remove products that science says are not necessarily harmful while slashing federal programs that work
While the decision to remove artificial food dyes is typically something people across the political spectrum can get on board ...
MAHA proposed state-level restrictions on food additives gaining traction on the granola left and MAHA right
In a first-of-its-kind effort, the Texas legislature has passed a bill to require warning labels on foods such as Mountain ...
Viewpoint: Challenging food myths: What would it be like if we continue to demonize modern, high tech agriculture?
The current wave of food anxiety stems, in large part, from a misunderstanding of hazard versus risk. A substance can ...
Processed human sewage waste is sometimes used as cheap fertilizers. It’s potentially dangerous
About 3.5 million tonnes of sludge – the solid waste produced from human sewage at treatment plants - is put ...
Viewpoint: With lower yields, the future of organic farming is endangered. It needs biotechnology
The EU should allow gene editing to make organic farming more sustainable, researchers say. To achieve the European Green Deal’s ...
