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.
In case there was any remaining doubt: 7-year long primate study proves no health issues are linked to GMO crops
Genetically modified foods have become increasingly prevalent in daily life, raising concerns about their safety and public acceptance, which in ...
Viewpoint: Who’s Who of litigation-financed junk scientists publish screed in European pay-for-play journal designed to target safe chemicals and their manufacturers for billion-dollar tort actions
Springer Nature published on November 4, 2025, in Environmental Sciences Europe, "Scientists' warning: we must change paradigm for a revolution in toxicology and ...
Roundup litigation reprieve? U.S. government backs Bayer’s claim that its glyphosate is safe-as-used finding preempts random, conflicting state-by-state ‘failure-to-warn’ claims
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a brief on Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review Monsanto’s federal ...
Viewpoint: Small-scale organic farming’s ‘costly indulgence’—Unlike genetically engineered crops, sustainability myths cannot reduce chemical use and increase yields on less land
The modern food debate is full of comfortable myths. The most persistent is that “organic” is better for you, and ...
Protecting pigs and loving bacon made from them—Here’s how we can get the best of both worlds
Cultivated pork is the newest entrant in the effort to rethink meat. For years, plant-based offerings have been mimicking burgers, ...
Global food security in a fast changing climate
The availability, quality, and affordability of food depend on a stable climate and stable socioeconomic factors that affect supply and ...
Europe has voted to ban meaty names like ‘steak’ and ‘burger’ for plant-based ‘beef’. Will the UK be next?
After the failure of several similar bans, efforts to stop meat alternatives using ‘meaty’ names are closer than ever to ...
‘Climate-friendly,’ net-zero beef: Possible or just PR?
Last year, the New York attorney general’s office and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization, filed lawsuits against JBS ...
Viewpoint: South Korea’s outdated crop gene editing regulations stifles agricultural production
At a policy seminar where Korea’s science community, agriculture sector and government gathered to discuss regulatory reforms for gene editing ...
Viewpoint: New Zealand rebuffs science-rejectionist attack on the safe use of glyphosate weedkiller
I agree with the recent decision by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority concerning glyphosate. It states that glyphosate can ...
The Hungarian parliament has passed a law banning cell-cultivated meat
Hungary raised concerns about cell-based meat when it held the European Council Presidency last year, arguing meat and dairy consumption ...
Smart, sustainable, scalable: AI, hydroponics and the future of farming
As global population pressures rise and arable land continues to shrink, the urgency to revolutionize agriculture is more pronounced than ...
Agriculture faces a challenging future as it enters the age of gene editing and sustainable farming
In the ever-evolving world of agricultural science, researchers are relentlessly searching for innovative methods to enhance crop resilience against the ...
Viewpoint: Jane Goodall was duped by anti-crop biotechnology conspiracy junk science
Jane Goodall is well-deserving of the many laudatory obituaries recently published. But there is one disturbing twist in the great ...
Viewpoint: We need a coordinated global effort to counteract climate change’s impact on food production
Last May, the Japanese Minister of Agriculture resigned after commenting that he never bought rice because his supporters gave it ...
Viewpoint: The Washington Post’s ignorant article suggesting corn country deaths are driven by the herbicide glyphosate
Several weeks ago, the Washington Post ran an article titled “The mysterious rise of cancer among adults in the Corn Belt.” It ...
Will the regenerative agriculture movement be hijacked away from farmers by ‘big corporations and hungry start-ups’?
In farming today, it sometimes feels as though whatever the problem, whether it’s soil health, yields, carbon or profitability, the ...
Sustainable farming: How can we engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects of a warming climate?
As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. A roadmap for how new ...
It would be incredible if we could breed plants that pests couldn’t gorge on. CRISPR is making it a reality
Insects that feed on starch can find veritable feasts in corn, pea, and bean crops or warehouses. It is no ...
Were dodo birds really dodo-heads? Rescuing the reputation of an undeservedly smeared species
Until the last decade or so, the dodo was depicted as a comically chubby, clumsy cretin, too complacent and trusting ...
Biotechnology’s role in combating global food waste
A stark and heart-wrenching paradox haunts our modern world: while nearly one-tenth of humanity goes to bed hungry, a tidal ...
Health Canada opens grocery stores to cloned animal foods. Is the nation ready?
According to Health Canada’s own consultation documents, Ottawa intends to remove foods derived from cloned animals from its “novel foods” ...
Viewpoint: Can urban farming and agroecology rescue our planet?
By 2050, more than two-thirds of us will live in cities. Could urban farming feed 10 billion? Urban agriculture (UA) covers everything ...
Taste, nutrition, yield, disease resistance, climate resilience: England becomes first country in Europe to legalize the development and sale of gene-edited plants and food
Niab has welcomed the entry into force today (13 November) of the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 for plants ...
Pakistan paying an economic price for its reluctance to embrace crop biotechnology
The iconic green fields of the Punjab, once the heartland of Pakistan’s cotton economy, face a silent crisis. While official ...
How science figured out how to contain peanut allergies
It turned out that the guidance parents and pediatricians ... had been following, to avoid giving peanuts to babies and ...
Activists decry EPA approval of effective PFAS family herbicide
The Trump administration is poised to again approve a new Pfas “forever chemical” pesticide ingredient, a move that is drawing ...
