Yearly Archives: 1999

Will The Homeless Be Able To Stomach Tofu Turkey?

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

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Biotech Foods. . .Safe, Tested And Ready For The World

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

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WTO Protesters Would Consign World’s Poor To Misery

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

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Harvest of Injustice

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

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Something In The Water

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

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Street Theater Shouldn’t Dictate Environmental Policy

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

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Population Doomsayers Are More Than Merely Wrong

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

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Dairy Farmers Continue to Milk US Consumers

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

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Time For Farmers To Laud the Virtues of Biotechnology

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

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It’s Time For Americans To Accept Irradiated Food

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

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