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.
Far-right election successes across the EU may disrupt European Commission’s goals to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050
The growing electoral success of nationalist parties across the [European] continent risks undermining pro-environment forces in the next European Parliament ...
Viewpoint: Is California violating the free speech right of farmers in demanding a safety warning label on glyphosate? The liberal federal Ninth Circuit court rebukes the state for labeling the weedkiller a ‘dangerous chemical’
California’s Proposition 65 has become a poster child for ineffective and counterproductive over-warning. You know what we are talking about. ...
Carbon tradeoff: Which is better for the environment — grain-fed or pasture-raised beef?
Beef production accounts for the largest share of global livestock greenhouse gas emissions and is an important target for climate ...
American Pediatric Society lambasted by scientists, researchers, GLP’s Jon Entine for promoting scientifically-baseless claim that food grown from genetically modified seeds pose unique dangers to children
Immunologist and microbiologist Andrea Love, Ph.D., recently received a flood of messages from concerned parents and pediatricians. They were all ...
Modernizing ancient techniques: How harnessing microbes could make alternative proteins more palatable
There’s a growing category of foods using an age-old technique that experts say could be a dark horse in the ...
Viewpoint: ‘I’m talking about you Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth’ — Nobel Laureate Sr Richard Roberts urges Thailand to reject anti-biotechnology advocacy group fearmongering
Speaking in an exclusive interview to The Nation, Dr Sir Richard J Roberts, Nobel Prize winner for medicine in 1993, ...
Just 27% of Americans think genetically modified foods are safe to eat. It’s time to set the record straight
Thirty years after tomatoes became the first genetically modified produce sold in the U.S., lots of people remain skeptical of science-ified ...
Pondering the future of fruit in a climate-challenged world: Can we grow fruit without trees?
Plant Cell Culture technology utilizes the ability of a single plant cell to produce multiple cells. In the lab, we ...
Is Bill Gates a global agriculture puppet master? Indian fact-checking site unmasks anti-biotechnology ‘environmentalists’ as source for fake claims
No, the statement that Bill Gates instructed world governments to replace real food with genetically modified alternatives to combat global ...
Viewpoint: Fake meat doesn’t taste anything like the real thing. Pilot project putting pig genes in soybeans hopes to change the status quo
Paladini is the CEO of Moolec Science, a molecular farming firm that uses crops to grow animal proteins. The idea is ...
How genetics can revolutionize 100-year old strategies failing to protect honeybees
Beekeepers lose between 30% and 40% of their colonies annually, mostly to parasites and pathogens. Losses during one bad year ...
Glyphosate disinformation: French activists use fake ‘glyphosate detection tests’ in campaign to turn public against safe weedkiller
Opponents needed a tool that would strike public opinion. Monica Kruger, an activist and director of the private veterinary testing ...
How zapping roots with electricity can supercharge plant growth
Barley seedlings grow on average 50% more when their root system is stimulated electrically through a new cultivation substrate. In ...
Sucralose, aspartame, stevia: With the use of sugar substitutes continuing to rise, questions mount about their impact on diets
Many people are cutting back on their sugar intake for health reasons. But the food industry has found another way ...
Viewpoint: Indian farmers urged to learn from Sri Lanka’s failed environmentalist-led movement to abandon science
One important lesson that Indian farmers must learn is never to believe without trying and applying what others are imposing ...
Viewpoint: Despite crop gene-editing deregulation in Canada, lack of federal support sharply limits innovations
In 2022, Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announced that crop varieties developed with gene editing technology will not be subject ...
Study: Organic farming produces less food than conventional. How huge is this yield gap?
The productivity of organic farming systems and their capacity to address the global food demand of a rapidly increasing population ...
Cell-based, lab grown meat is splitting food and agricultural sustainability communities. Here’s why
Proponents of cultivated meat argue that it carries numerous environmental benefits compared to conventional agriculture — all of which are particularly ...
Cherry tomatoes of the future are here today thanks to gene editing. They grow faster, in clusters, and even indoors
Scientists have just genetically modified cherry tomatoes to make them easier to grow, and the future applications could include making them more ...
Here’s the skinny on fast-emerging genetic engineering tools that are rapidly improving global farming
Genetic engineering and gene-editing tools are by no means a panacea for the time-sensitive agricultural and food-related challenges we face ...
Pakistan edges closer to inevitable embrace of sustainable genetically-modified seeds
The debate on consuming genetically modified organisms (GMO) in agriculture has erupted once again in Pakistan ...
$115 billion: From GMOs to gene editing, agricultural biotechnology market poised to expand dramatically by 2028
'Agricultural Biotechnology: Emerging Technologies and Global Markets' explores the dynamic intersection of cutting-edge biotechnological innovations and the global agricultural landscape ...
Americans’ top 10 favorite genetically-modified foods
Genetically modified papayas were first produced in the U.S. in 1996. Since then, they have been extremely popular in the ...
‘Glyphosate does not cause cancer and is not responsible for the plaintiff’s illness’: Bayer snaps Roundup liability losing streak
Bayer has won a trial in a lawsuit brought by a California man who said he developed cancer from exposure ...
To reach climate change targets set at COP28, we need agricultural biotechnology to help decarbonize economies around the world
Climate change is affecting communities worldwide, and innovative solutions are more urgently needed than ever. As leaders from around the ...
Weedkiller adaptation: ‘Silver bullets on weed control don’t exist’
It has been a quarter century since corn and soybeans were engineered to withstand the withering mists of the herbicide ...
New York neonicotinoid compromise: Governor Hochul agrees to gradually phase out some neonicotinoid pesticides while allowing key exceptions
Governor Kathy Hochul has signed into law Legislation S.1856-A/A.7640, known as the Birds and Bees Protection Act. This nation-leading legislation ...
