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: Franceโs Le Monde endorses bizarre activist conspiracy disinformation about the โdangersโ of gene-edited crops
Le Monde published on December 10 (date on the web) and 11 (date of the print edition, published the day ...
Supreme Court agrees to review Bayerโs request to block lawsuits claiming federally-approved herbicide glyphosate causes cancer
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review Monsantoโs appeal seeking immunity from lawsuits related to its popular herbicide, Roundup ...
Viewpoint: Why RFK, Jr.โs promotion of โnatural medicines and foodโ is simplistic, often ignorant, and sometimes dangerous
Often, weโre given a choice between certain things โ such as foods, medicines or procedures โ that are deemed natural, ...
Bayer on SCOTUS: Itย should not face liablity in state courts forย alleged health damages caused by its weedkiller Roundup (glyphosate) when independent federal agencies have reviewed thousands of studies and labeled itย safe
The U.S. Supreme Court today announced that it will review the Durnell Roundupโข case. Monsanto petitioned the court to hear ...
How MAHA policies are fast-changing the ingredients in popular foods
Make America Healthy Again. Ozempic. Fibermaxxing. Powerful forces are pushing the U.S. food industry to make what could be the ...
Bloated advice: MAHA influencers are flooding social media with misinformation on gut health
โI had one patient who saw a TikTok video about doing a colon cleanse, bought something over the counter to ...
โA whole lot of (methane) gasโ: Grass-fed beef is not better for the climate, experts agree
Roughly a quarter of all global greenhouse gases come from food production, and beef accounts for the single biggest share ...
Viewpontโ’Weight gain is not a necessary component of a highly ultra-processed dietโ: A nuanced look at Americaโs โdeadly dietโ
In the past half century, nutrition scientists have blamed health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease on many ...
AI is a revolutionary tool to increase global farming output and food productivity
With the world's population projected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050, the global agricultural sector faces a defining challenge ...
Despite ‘no conflicts of interestโ pledge, several of Kennedyโs dietary advisors have ties to the meat and dairy industryย
Soon after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the nationโs health secretary, he promised to overhaul the federal ...
In the UK effort to align more with Europe, will it mothball its recently relaxed policy on gene-edited crops?ย
The [UK] government is attempting to negotiate an opt-out from European laws that ban the commercialisation of most forms of ...
RFK, Jr. ends โwar on saturated fatsโ: A win for meat-maxing influencers, a loss for common-sense eating
For decades, nutrition experts and health officials have warned against eating too much saturated fat. Red meat, full-fat dairy products, ...
Supreme Court may consider blocking further suits targeting the weedkiller glyphosate, which global regulatory agencies have found safe
The Supreme Court is poised to decide whether to take up a case involving weedkillers and cancer that could effectively ...
Why are we not eating more cell-based meat? Blame over-regulation, protectionist states, and skeptical consumers
In , we wrote about the excitement consumers and investors had for a new type of protein. By 2013, investors ...
โGoes against decades of evidenceโ: RFK, Jr.โs new food pyramid draws backlash from heart health and nutrition groups
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced new dietary guidelines for Americans focused on promoting whole foods, proteins and ...
Europe’s small step to unwind its science-free precautionism of crop biotech
Theย European Union recently agreed to ease restrictions on new genomic techniques (NGTs) for food, in the most significant change to ...
Viewpoint: ‘Ripped from the playbookโโThe politics behind San Franciscoโs Big Food case
The companies behind Tony the Tiger, Fruit Loops, Heinz ketchup, Coca-Cola, Oreo, and Lucky Charms are lawyering up as the ...
How once food-poor Indiaโs advanced seed genetics usurped Chinaโs global dominance of rice production
India has become the world's largest rice producer, beating China, with a total output of 150.18 million tonnes, Union Agriculture ...
Detox cleanses are a quick fix that donโt work
Detox cleanses are all over social media, with people claiming the diets remove toxins, help you lose weight and supposedly ...
Ten-year-old prediction that โglyphosate will make half of all children autistic by 2025โ proven false and looney. Date moved to 2032
A big date has arrived. Those of us who have been following pseudoscience for some time will remember that way ...
Viewpoint: ‘All exposed, all contaminated’โHow France learned to fear its food
According to the latest Eurobarometer on food safety in the European Union, published at the end of September 2025 by ...
Viewpoint: European farmers protest the nightmare of the Green Deal and other science-rejectionist EU agricultural regulations
Over the past two years, farmers throughoutย Europeย have mobilized on a scale that should dominate news headlines. ... European farmers are ...
Well-intentioned but scientifically misguided activist claims of what constitutes biological diversity hinder actual biodiversity and agricultural progress
... [S]ince the 1990s, well-intentioned laws shifted the governance of biodiversity from a shared global resource to the sovereign control ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr., MAHA, and USDA close ranks in support of โregenerative agricultureโ. Hereโs why this trendy concept is bad policy
[On December 10, 2025], Kennedy, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, and Dr. โSnakeoilโ Oz trotted out in front of the cameras ...
CRISPR chicken: Could gene editing be the key to cheaper poultry?
Chicken is one of the worldโs most affordable and widely consumed proteins, yet its price remains surprisingly sensitive to feed ...
Discovery of growth โswitchโ in cold-hardy plants could unlock pathways to develop more cold-resilient crops
Scientists in South Korea have discovered a rapid molecular โswitchโ that reprograms plant growth in response to cold stress. The ...
Okay, but not nearly enough: EUโs loosened restrictions on CRISPR and other gene-edited crops help, but itโs still a wasteful long-haul for approvals
The first part of the EUโs Biotech Act has been published. The act, which is mainly focused on health, also ...
