Archive for 1998
Sierra Club Speaks Out, Supports GMOs, High-Yield Crops
Sunday, December 27th, 1998Sierra Club Exec Endorses High-Yield Agriculture and Biotech Corp Carl Pope credits
Hudson Institute Fellow Dennis Avery’s agricultural and environmental research.
WASHINGTON — Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, has endorsed high-yield agriculture, including bio-engineered crops, because high farm yields will help save wildlife habitat and wild species. Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues […]
Confinement Hog Farming Good for Water Quality?
Saturday, September 12th, 1998Download PDF
Evidence from America’s most intensive hog producing region indicate that large hog operations do not hurt water quality.
Pfiesteria Hysteria
Sunday, June 28th, 1998Dave Juday
Last summer, pfiesteria, a mysterious toxic algae bloom, killed about 3,000 fish in two tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay and apparently made about 30 people ill. Like the Cuyahoga River’s catching fire in the 1970’s, this local event created a national state of panic about water quality. Environmental groups responded with overheated rhetoric, and […]