Steve Savage
In defense of crop patents
The following is an excerpt. Patents involving plants are often portrayed as a seriously negative phenomenon. In fact, they play an important ...
The muddled debate about pesticides and GM crops
Science 2.0The Muddled Debate About Pesticide And GM CropsScience 2.0The supporters of crop biotechnology need to maintain the perspective that ...
Counting the cost of the anti-GMO movement
There is a long and growing list of agricultural, environmental, and health improvement that "could have been" if the anti-GMO ...
Can the damage from agenda-driven junk science be undone?
But can the damage from the Seralini corn study be undone? It is far more probable that this “cancer link” ...
Plant biotechnologists “time travel” with their use of chemicals
In the last few months there have been two examples where we have seen brand new biotech crops that are ...
GMOs and California: To label or not to label?
Steve Savage, a plant pathologist working with agricultural technology, gives his explanation of why voters should absolutely vote 'no' on ...
GMO crops: To label or not to label?
This fall, California voters will be asked to vote on Proposition 37, a law which would require that all foods ...