Fair Warning to Strengthen Food Systems

 

Farewell 2021 and thanks, COVID, for the rude awakening to strengthen food systems, secure supply chains, and reconstruct private/ public sector collaboration in 2022.  Bring it on!!!  

 

Food Safety for Meat Still Lacking

 

Salmonella still not averted in US:  https://www.propublica.org/article/salmonella-chicken-usda-food-safety?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature .  The problem seems to reside in surveillance and regulatory authority. Nothing new there. 

 

COP 226 to Advance the Interest of Society

COP 26, Glasgow: secure a new mandate for the Wealth of Nations in environmental preservation and enhancement, “advance the interest of the society.” Adam Smith, famed economist from Glasgow...

CRISPR: Climate Change Resilience, Food Safety MIlestone

 

Developing a sustainable global food system that ensures access to a sufficient supply of nutritious, diverse and safe food for all, and simultaneously limits the impact on the environment, is one of the key challenges in the next few decades. Which means identifying technologies and sustainable agricultural practices that can adapt to climate change as well as reduce agricultural carbon intensity is a crucial task for policymakers, food suppliers, and even institutional and private investors.

In today's Digest, we focus on one such technology that could potentially be an integral part of solving the food system challenge --- Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)...and it's ready for you now at The Digest online.