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.
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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
