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.
If youโve identified as transgender or nonbinary in Kansas, youโve just lost your ID and driverโs license
The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S ...
The public does not perceive differences between CRISPR crops and GMOs. That presents problems
Although Canadian regulatory bodies have established separate guidelines for GMOs and CRISPR crops, it remains unclear whether the public can ...
Why you shouldnโt follow RFK, Jr.โs meat-intensive diet
Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again mates have long been extolling the virtues of meat and whole-fat dairy, so ...
37 food โfactsโ that are wrong
[T]hereโs a lot of culinary misinformation out there that could potentially spoil your supper.ย Want to separate the myths from the ...
โThey are an essential part of a healthy dietโ: Debunking MAHAโs rejection of seed oils
For years now, seed oils have been cast as the quiet villain of modern eating. Scroll through social media, and ...
Tyson foods on the defensive about โnet zeroโ and โclimate smartโ beef claims
In late 2025, the global meat giant Tyson Foods agreedย to a landmarkย settlementย that bars it from describing its beef as โnetโzeroโ ...
RFK, Jr.โs aversion to legislation raises the question: Will his revolution endure?
Over the course of his year in the Cabinet, Kennedy has racked up major wins for his Make America Healthy ...
Operation Stork Speed: RFK, Jr. targets baby formulasย
When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. summoned infant-formula executives to Washington last spring, he arrived with ...
โWe were lied toโ: Will Trumpโs order to increase the domestic supply of the weedkiller glyphosate split MAHA?
[T]he executive order Mr. Trump issued February 17 to increase domestic production of glyphosate โ a widely used weedkiller and ...
Gene-edited foods are advancing fastโbut commercialization and consumer acceptance lag
[A]s gene editing matures, another reality has come into focus. The science accelerates. Commercialization does not. That tension surfaced during ...
GM mushrooms taste like meat but use 70% less land than livestockย
Imagine picking up something that looks and chews like chicken, only it never clucked, never set foot on a farm, ...
Bayer agrees to pay $7.2 billion to settle thousands of Roundup suits, bringing total payout to more than $18 billion
Bayer, the German bio-tech giant, has proposed paying $7.25bn ... to definitively resolve a legal battle in the US over ...
Pesticides in the crosshairs as MAHA goes head to head with Republican establishment
Republicans are using the farm bill to take another swing at passing legislation to protect pesticides, something sure to anger ...
โNot backed by evidenceโ: RFK, Jr. wrongly claims that keto diet can cure schizophrenia
... Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.โs claim that a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet may cure certain psychiatric conditions is misleading and not ...
RFK Jr.โs autism panel packed with bizarre collection of cranks and conspiracists
U.S. health secretaryย Robert F. Kennedy Jr.ย has filled an autism committee with friends, associates, and former colleagues who believe that autism ...
Unpasteurized milk scandal: 2% of the U.S. drinks unpasteurized milk but it causes 22x more infections
Consumption of unpasteurised milk in the United States has presented a public health challenge for decades because of the increased ...
Should you follow RFK, Jr.โs guidance to replace seed oils in your diet with beef tallow? Not if you want to stay healthier
โMake frying oil tallow again,โ said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. And just like that, Steak ...
France launches 4-part plan to counter health disinformationย
Faced with the rapid growth of information channels, the rise of social networks, and the virality of false or misleading ...
RFK, Jr. dilemma: American Medical Association leadership split over whether to ostracize HHS secretary or vainly try to educate him
A meeting ... between the head of the American Medical Association and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has prompted ...
Disinformation exploding on TikTok about agriculture and food
In an alarming development for food manufacturers, new research has revealed that over a third of Gen Z would rather ...
Despite $12 billion in losses defending the safety of glyphosate, Bayer reiterates support for the herbicide
There may be a day when Bayer Crop Science decides it needs to exit the glyphosate business, George Gough, director ...
Repurposing the husks and other fibrous residue from seed crops could be converted into carbon-storing building supplies
Agricultural waste that is usually burned or left to rot could play a far bigger role in tackling climate change ...
MAHAโs obsession with raw milk kills New Mexico newborn
A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from aย Listeriaย infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw ...
MAHA turns its ire towards what it claims are unsafe, industry-friendly EPA chemical rules
Last year, prominent activist Kelly Ryerson was so frustrated with the EPA ... that she and other MAHA supporters drew ...
Consumer alert: โNatural,โ โLow fatโ and โlightโ are among many unregulated labels that confuse food shopper
The world of food labeling and marketing is often an impenetrable forest of terms, numbers, and nutritional facts that turns ...
Spewing misinformation about cultivated meat, Arizona lawmaker wants to send science innovators to prison
The season of state-level attempts to ban cultivated meat has begun. [In January], policymakers in Virginia, South Dakota, and Arizona ...
China leads Asia in its slow embrace of genetically modified crops
Asian countries are shifting their position on GMOs, though the pace and motives differ by country, said Nandini Roy Choudhury, ...
