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 the TV show “The West Wing,” made the offer in a letter for People for the Ethical Treatment of [...]
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.
They hope to make it legal for World Trade Organization members to ban the import of genetically engineered [...]
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 blocking an empty downtown street with wooden cutouts of evergreen trees. They said the WTO would force America [...]
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 strong U.S. comparative advantage in producing them. The production of fruits and vegetables should occupy tens of thousands [...]
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 legal fees and economic losses to real Americans far into the next century.
On August [...]
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 genetically modified corn.
In a bit of street theater, a dozen little kids dressed up as butterflies ran in [...]
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 warning of global food shortages, rapidly disappearing topsoil and overpopulation destroying the world’s wildlife.
Pimentel recommends getting the world’s [...]
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 dairy support is so profligate: “Every state has two senators and at least one dairy cow.”
Butz’s observation [...]
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 wheat gene Norin 10, which has helped developing countries like India, Pakistan and Mexico increase their wheat harvests [...]
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 pasteurization” on some meat products.
Poultry giant Tyson Foods as well as Iowa Beef Processors and Cargill have signed [...]
