Andrew Ladenheim

Just a stone’s throw from a sleepy suburban neighbourhood outside Zurich, barley is being grown under high security. Because this is no ordinary barley –

The World Economic Forum says the world faces a new crisis, “One-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production.” With

In the UK, the Crop Science Centre in Cambridge is testing out a genetically modified variation of barley that is is hoped will reduce the need for damaging fertilisers.

Eating an anti-inflammatory diet of whole grains, fruits and vegetables instead of an inflammatory diet focused on red and processed

Elite billionaire organizations and foundations, government agencies and activist pressure groups are funding and coordinating a global war on modern

[R]esearchers in Canada are leveraging artificial intelligence to analyze food bite-by-bite . All diners have to do is record themselves eating.

The Environment Department (Defra) and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha) gave regulatory clearance to start-up Meatly to sell its cultivated

The American public's trust in the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has significantly waned in recent years. The most recent Gallup Poll (2023), found that approval was at a two-decade low (41%), while disapproval was at a high point (58%). This decline can be partly attributed to a growing perception that the Court is dismissive of scientific expertise and evidence-based decision-making, especially in healthcare cases. Instead, the Court is concocting rationales to support its ideological leanings.Consider, for example, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024). The case (together with its companion, Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce), eviscerated the Chevron doctrine, which had empowered federal agencies to interpret ambiguous statutes and was especially important in agencies with special substantive expertise.This dismantling of deference now facilitates legal challenges to established governmental healthcare consumer protections. Many of these entities exist under the aegis of the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, (which includes 13 agencies, such as the FDA and CDC), but there are additional relevant agencies such as EPA, NOAA and OSHA, each operating under different Cabinet departments.Case-by-case determination of regulatory authority would undoubtedly sow confusion, creating uncertainty for businesses, healthcare providers, and consumers, and potentially undermining established standards of healthcare and environmental protections. Such expected inconsistency will generate a patchwork of decisions as different courts separately examine federal agencies’ determinations. The result will also disrupt insurance decisions, introducing uncertainty (the curse of the underwriter) as each matter is handled individually without any need to follow rulings from another judicial circuit. The case-by-case decision-making renders predictability of results highly elusive, as does the lack of respect for the expert personnel and scientific resources of science-based agencies. As one commentator stated:Chief Justice John Roberts wrote [in overruling Chevron] that the real experts on deciding if a toxin dumped in the water supply constitutes a dangerous threat or “new and improved taste!” are law school graduates. (Emphasis in original)

Thanks to the Green Revolution—a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw significantly increased crop yields and agricultural production—it

In the late 90s I left New Zealand as I wanted to use DNA tools in my research, but the rules that were coming into effect were very restrictive. Some