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: Fake news about Italyโs 2023 โunenforceableโ ban on lab grown meat reignites fact-twisted furorย
Italy passed a law banning cultivated or cell-based meat years ago, but posts online suggesting that it has just happened ...
Yield, resilience and profits: Seed technology is put to the test
Dr Godfrey Kgatle, plant pathologist and research coordinator at Grain SA, offers insight into how traditional breeding, hybrids, genetically modified ...
Viewpoint: San Franciscoโs ultra-processed lawsuit: Stupid politics meets dumb science
[On December 2, 2025], San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed what he calls a โfirst of its kindโ lawsuit ...
Viewpoint: Despite growing acceptance of gene-edited crops, cloned meat still gives people โthe ickโ
After working with other government departments and conducting a review of the scientific literature, Health Canada had determined that food ...
Will South Korea join the rest of the science world in deregulating genetically engineered crops?
[Korea's] National Assembly [just] passed the โGMO Full Disclosure Act (Food Sanitation Act Amendment).โ This reflects progress in transparency, safeguarding ...
Viewpoint: The rosy-eyed view of the changes that could be coming with the EUโs approval of agricultural gene editing
In recent years, there has been a need for the rapid development of new varieties to address the negative constraints ...
Most people have no clue how gene edited could tweak crops, but when the benefits are clear, they are receptive
Consumers are far more open to gene-edited foods when the benefits are personal, values-driven and clearly explained, according to recent ...
Viewpoint: India needs to refine its view of the benefits and limits of crop biotechnology
This yearโs Nobel laureates in Economics affirm that the future of growth models will be driven by innovation. This is ...
Agri-biotechnology innovators turn to living organisms and natural materials to build future-focused food systems
[B]iotechnology companies are turning to living organisms and natural materials for inspiration. ... [U]nibaioย extracts chitosan from shell waste and transforms ...
How to future-proof global food security to meet 2050 demands
Food security faces growing challenges due to population growth, resource limitations, economic pressures, and industrialization-induced lifestyle changes. Traditional food systems ...
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 ...
CRISPR is coming: Europe takes a giant step forward escaping three decades of crop biotechnology denialism
[The European] Council has reached aย provisional agreementย with the European Parliament on a set of rules that establish a legal framework ...
Viewpoint: Whoโs 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 Natureย published on November 4, 2025, inย Environmental Sciences Europe, "Scientists'ย warning: we must change paradigm for a revolution in toxicology and ...
Roundup litigation reprieve? U.S. government backs Bayerโs claim that its glyphosate is safe-as-used finding preempts random, conflicting state-by-state โfailure-to-warnโ claims
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a brief on Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review Monsantoโs federal ...
Viewpoint: Small-scale organic farmingโs ‘costly indulgence’โUnlike 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 โorganicโ is better for you, and ...
Protecting pigs and loving bacon made from themโHereโs 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, ...
Europe has voted to ban meaty names like โsteakโ and โburgerโ for plant-based โbeefโ. Will the UK be next?
After the failure of several similar bans, efforts to stop meat alternatives using โmeatyโ names are closer than ever to ...
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 ...
‘Climate-friendly,’ net-zero beef: Possible or just PR?
Last year, the New York attorney generalโs office and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization, filed lawsuits against JBS ...
Viewpoint: South Koreaโs outdated crop gene editing regulations stifles agricultural productionย
At a policy seminar where Koreaโs 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 changeโs 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 Postโs ignorant article suggesting corn country deaths are driven by the herbicide glyphosate
Several weeks ago, theย Washington Postย ran an article titled โThe mysterious rise of cancer among adults in the Corn Belt.โ It ...
