Applied Mythology

What if much that you think you know about agriculture, farming and food isn't actually true? What if there are "myths" that have been intentionally and mostly unintentionally spread about these issues? What if the truth about these issues matters for the future of humanity? That is what this blog is about. I also recorded several podcasts at POPAgriculture https://www.popagriculture.com/

Monday, October 13, 2014

This Is Not My Grandpa's Organic

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When Grandpa retired he gardened even more. Thats about when I started helping I’ve been interfacing with Organic for 50 years. ...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Don't Believe What Dr Oz Is Saying About An Agricultural Herbicide

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Television personality Dr Oz has released a video which talks about an agricultural product called Enlist Duo .  Virtually nothing in th...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Why Biotech Should Be Employed For Crop Disease Resistance

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Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter - Vector of Pierce's Disease of Grapes Most of the “GMO Crops” that have been commercialized are eithe...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Do GMO Crops Foster Monoculture?

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Do GMO crops "foster monoculture?" This is a frequent criticism of modern agriculture. I have three with problems it: ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Applied Mythology Reaches Quarter Million All Time Page Views

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I began blogging about food and agricultural issues 5 years ago in July, 2009.  Beginning on the Sustainablog site , I moved to Eat Drin...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Scientists Behaving Badly

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Its been a bad week for science, particularly for the science related to food production.  The notoriously flawed "Seralini Study...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Five Tasty Reasons To Reconsider GMO Crops

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Feeding the world may not seem like an urgent need from the perspective of a rich society with an obesity epidemic. Technologies that make...
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Steve Savage
Born in Denver Colorado. B.S. Stanford, M.S. and Ph.D. UC Davis. Worked for Colorado State University, DuPont, Mycogen and an independent consultant since 1996
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