Yearly Archives: 1999

Dennis T. Avery An Actor’s Holiday Gesture, No Matter How Well-Intentioned, Won’t Win the World Over to Vegetarianism CHURCHVILLE, Va. – Martin Sheen is offering fake-turkey dinners to homeless shelters this Christmas season. The actor, who plays the president on … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery The Real Risk Is Starvation In Poor Countries, Not Genetically Engineered Food CHURCHVILLE,Va.–When environmental protesters took over Seattle to rail against the World Trade Organization, they held a seminar on the evils of biotechnology in food production. … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery Only Trade And Investment Can Deliver The Third World From Poverty SEATTLE-At first glance, the environmental activists who protested the World Trade Organization’s recent meeting here seemed more naive than violent. One group from northern California was … Continue reading →

Reviewed by Dennis T. Avery Book Review of Harvest of Injustice: Legal Services vs. the Farmer by Rael Jean Isaac December 1999 World demand for fruits and vegetables will increase five-fold in the decades ahead, and the U.S. has a … Continue reading →

Richard A. Halpern In the name of improving water quality, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to revive a long-moribund regulatory strategy guaranteed to rack up millions, billions, and, for truly motivated bureaucrats and lawyers, trillions of dollars in … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery Will The World Reject Biotechnology Because Of A simplistic Children’s Skit? It Just Might Happen CHURCHVILLE, Va.-The U.S. Food and Drug Administration made the nightly TV news with its recent Chicago hearing on the environmental risks of … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery Exactly How Do Scaremongering Scientists Intend for the Earth to Lose 4 Billion People? CHURCHVILLE, Va.-Recently I frightened a newspaper reporter. She was doing a story on the latest gloomy predictions of Cornell entomologist David Pimentel. He’s … Continue reading →

Dave Juday America’s Milk Drinkers Can Expect To Pay An Extra $7 Billion Next Year On Dairy Products. Blame A Sour Deal In Congress LEESBURG, Va — Earl Butz, secretary of agriculture under President Richard Nixon, once explained why federal … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery The “Greens” Have Gone Too Far. Farmers Must Let The Public Know The Benefits of High-Tech Agriculture CHURCHVILLE, Va.-Commenting on the recent furor over biotech foods, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman noted the success of the … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery As Food-Borne Bacteria Threaten To Gain The Upper Hand, A New Technology Emerges To Do Battle. Will Shoppers Balk? CHURCHVILLE, Va.-America’s largest poultry processor and its two largest beef processors recently signed agreements to start using “electronic … Continue reading →