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.
Climate-adaptive crops open door to a ‘new era of gene-edited food’
Genetic engineering remains extremely contentious in Europe. This matters because resistance to food altered by biotechnology is holding back development ...
Regulatory barriers stunting the European cultivated meat revolution
A 2022 study found that food production accounts for over a quarter (26%) of global greenhouse gas emissions, and around ...
How to reduce chemical usage? European study concludes GM and gene-edited crops are a solution, proposed relaxed EU regulations would limit innovation
Can modern breeding technologies, such as genome editing, contribute to reduced pesticide usage? This question has been accentuated by a ...
‘Mold burgers’: The source of your favorite sandwich might be a bit unconventional in the future
Genetically altered mold could be the future of food, providing tasty, healthy and environmentally friendly snacks. New research suggests that ...
Cultured meat is just too expensive to produce to scale up? That could change dramatically, and soon
A pioneering study unveils the first affordable method for producing cultivated meat. The research highlights that continuous manufacturing effectively overcomes ...
Blockchain, AI, vertical farming: Here are 8 ways modern technology is ramping up food production
We are living in an era of rapid technological advancements. This naturally shows the impact of modern technology in various ...
Viewpoint: Organic mirage: The poor are paying the price for the backlash against agrochemicals and crop biotechnology
Thanks to the Green Revolution—a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw significantly increased crop yields and agricultural production—it became ...
UK becomes first country to greenlight cultivated meat pet food sales
The Environment Department (Defra) and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha) gave regulatory clearance to start-up Meatly to sell ...
Calorie counting? AI could help, bite by bite
[R]esearchers in Canada are leveraging artificial intelligence to analyze food bite-by-bite. All diners have to do is record themselves eating ...
A Constitutional battle looms in the meat industry’s efforts to convince states to ban lab-grown meat
Florida’s ban on cultivated meat is being challenged in federal court in a lawsuit that was filed [August 12]. The case ...
Fact Check: No, we have not ‘perfected’ technology to put vaccines in lettuce and tomatoes
A post on X (formerly Twitter) claims that the University of California has perfected the technology to put vaccines in lettuce ...
Viewpoint: These global organizations and billionaire foundations are coordinating a ‘war’ against sustainably transforming our food system
Elite billionaire organizations and foundations, government agencies and activist pressure groups are funding and coordinating a global war on modern agriculture, ...
Which foods can lower dementia risk?
Eating an anti-inflammatory diet of whole grains, fruits and vegetables instead of an inflammatory diet focused on red and processed meats and ultraprocessed foods, such as ...
Viewpoint: The agroecology movement is turning against technology in agriculture, and the poor suffer
The World Economic Forum says the world faces a new crisis, "One-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food ...
Glyphosate poisoning oatmeal? Independent fact checker challenges viral social media video and claims
Social media users are actively discussing the various qualities—both good and bad—of foods, particularly grains and other related products. However, ...
Viewpoint: Sustainable food and biotechnology innovations are cornerstones of global food security threatened by armed conflict
While there are multiple causes of food insecurity on the planet, one is predominant: armed conflict. This year, with 20 ...
Bayer’s latest Roundup court victory could provide protection in tort suits if upheld
[August 15] the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in Monsanto’s favor in the Schaffner v. Monsanto case, ...
Bayer lobbies Congress to pass legislation protecting it from billions of dollars in lawsuits claiming glyphosate caused cancers
German chemical giant Bayer is seeking protection in the latest farm bill from lawsuits involving its Roundup weedkiller, according to ...
Once high-flying start up Beyond Meat crashed in the US market. Could Europe offer a reset?
The plant-based meat industry is in a bad place. Sales in the US fell last year as the pandemic-era enthusiasm for vegan burgers ...
Viewpoint: These global organizations and billionaire foundations are directing the war against sustainably transforming our food system
Elite billionaire organizations and foundations, government agencies, and activist pressure groups are funding and coordinating a global war on modern agriculture, ...
Insect protein is taking flight in the UK — fed on food waste from restaurants and supermarkets
There are no cows or chickens down on Entocycle’s farm; it focuses on an altogether different category of livestock – ...
Processed meat and memory: Connections between eating bacon, hot dogs and dementia
Regularly eating processed red meats like bacon, hot dogs, sausage, and salami may increase the risk of developing dementia, according ...
Protein-packed potatoes: Startup boosts protein content from 2% to 30% to tackle global malnutrition
ReaGenics, an Israeli biotech startup leveraging cellular tissue culturing to grow plant molecules in bioreactors, has created high-protein potatoes that ...
Can CRISPR gene editing spur increased consumption of fruits and vegetables?
Pairwise, a food and agriculture company that uses gene editing and CRISPR technology to transform plants and production systems, recently ...
Nascent cell-based meat industry is a disruptive technology. Is that a threat or an opportunity for UK farmers?
A new report from the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has looked at the potential impacts of cultivated meat on farmers ...
Viewpoint: ‘Herbicide hustlers’: Tort firm’s email blast seeks expert witnesses to testify against herbicide paraquat herbicide that EPA finds safe-as-used
With money-hungry attorneys filing herbicide lawsuits, a “Don’t Miss Out on This Paid Consulting Opportunity” note started showing up in ...
Is there such a thing as ‘plant behavior’?
We are just beginning to glimpse the extraordinary complexity and subtlety of plants’ relations with their environment, with each other ...
