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.
Viewpoint: Protection money for Finnish geese? This is the disaster that happens when governments capitaulate to anti-farming envrironmental extremists
While talking to farmers in Illinois on September 25th, 1956 who were concerned about increased government encroachment and regulations brought ...
Young people less skeptical than the genereal pubic on the increasing deployment of AI in the design and production of food
AI is increasingly being deployed in the design and production of food. What do consumers feel about these high tech ...
Five quick and lasting ways to overcome unhealthy and often deadly eating habits
The Well Challenge Day 1: How often do you buy ultraprocessed foods? Let’s find out. [W]e’ll help you understand how ...
How CRISPR could revolutionize banana farming and spur sustainable agriculture in Africa
Speaking about real-world application of CRISPR to improve crops, Valentine Otang Ntui discussed the different genome editing strategies he developed ...
What’s the future of plant-based deli meats?
As consumers continue their search for nutrient-dense, texturally satisfying and flavorful plant-based deli meats, brands are cleaning up their ingredient ...
Beyond cell based meat: Palestinian and Israeli scientists team to use injection molding to mimic the texture and structure of meat
A team of Israeli and Palestinian researchers on Wednesday unveiled an innovative method to produce “meat” using the principles of ...
Understanding the difference between GMOs and gene editing in crops and livestock
In a shift away from GMOS, aka genetically modified organisms, important research is continuing in gene editing, sometimes referred to ...
Viewpoint: Le Monde’s activist ‘journalist’ Stéphane Foucart twists science to ‘prove’ organic food is healthier than conventional
Le Monde devoted almost three pages of its "Science & Medicine " section of November 6, 2024 to two articles by ...
Viewpoint: Here is how ideologically-corrupted academicians manufacturer fear by linking pesticides and pancreatic cancer
The first step is to publish the results in a scientific journal, preferably of a good standard. Contrary to what ...
Israel’s Bedouin turn moisture in the desert air into drinking water
“The project empowers one of Israel’s most vulnerable and marginalized communities to be leaders in sustainability practices and environmental stewardship,” ...
Experimental fungi and ‘robotic bees’—Australia emerges as a global leader in merging technology with agriculture
While the US and China have been the biggest recipients of [agtech] investment, Australia is quietly becoming an ag-tech hotbed ...
Flipping the ideological health disinformation switch: MAGA conservatives embrace of raw milk has health officials panicking
In summertime, cows wait under a canopy to be milked at Mark McAfee’s farm in Fresno, California. From his Cessna ...
‘It’s a new way to think about food production’—Growing algae on Iceland’s futuristic farm
Under a strange pink-purple glow, illuminated panels buzz and cylindrical columns of water bubble away as a futuristic crop of ...
Meat processors are making the move from simple automation systems to smart robots and AI. Here’s why
Facilities in several market segments of the meat processing industry have already embraced robot automation and AI technology. For other ...
Can steam-treated seeds reduce the use of agricultural chemicals?
Since the 1950s, farmers across the world have used chemical treatments of their seeds to protect them from pests, pathogens, ...
‘They don’t use organic fairy dust to control pests’ Here’s the list of approved natural and synthetic herbicides and pesticides
While much about modern farming techniques centers around the use of synthetic pesticides [...] on large acreage, the question often ...
Viewpoint: GMOs are scapegoated by activists and blamed for encouraging the world to skirt global food and agriculural challenges
The debate around GMOs entails far more than scientific facts: GMOs have become a proxy for many socio-economic issues such as ...
Enriching soil: In agriculture, ‘there are no solutions, only trade-offs’
This is a critical moment for land use policy globally, with many countries (e.g. the UK and the European Union) ...
Viewpoint: Why India needs to swiftly embrace crop biotechnology
For more than a decade, we have been trapped in a stifling status quo, denying farmers the choice to embrace ...
Ideological science—How the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) promotes unscientific hysteria about red meat
In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) designated processed meats (hot dogs, ...
Biopower: What the US needs to do to counter China and secure its biotechnology leadership
[T]he Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a major new report, Biopower: Securing American Leadership in Biotechnology by Vivek Chilukuri and Hannah ...
No, Elderberry is not a magic elixir
Elderberry supplements — marketed for boosting the immune system — have recently become one of the most popular herbal supplements in the ...
Viewpoint: 7 social media food scare disinformation mongers getting rich peddling disinformation
Fighting disinformation around agriculture can be frustrating. Just like a hydra, whenever you manage to slay (er, discredit) one influencer, ...
Possibility of Trump tariffs has agricultural community in knots
As the threat of tariffs looms, the U.S. agriculture market is expected to be one of the main industries to ...
Viewpoint: Challenging the simplistic and false dichotomy between GM crops and environmental restoration
It would seem that environmental activists and organizations would be natural allies of approaches that could decrease pesticide use and ...
Trump administration abruptly ended government food safety alerts, then issued a ‘clarification’ that it’s a pause. Will the ban end up becoming permanent?
Officials inside the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), the agency that oversees both the CDC and the FDA, ...
No, the modern world is not killing us–Viewpoint: RFK. Jr.’s reckless war on food and agriculture
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his Children's Defense Fund and his work as a trial lawyer for Natural Resources Defense ...
