Dennis T. Avery
American Cities Are Using Pesticides To Protect Themselves From The West Nile Virus.
Why Not Let Africa Use DDT To Fight Malaria?
The West Nile virus has the potential to spread over most of America, says New York state wildlife pathologist Ward Stone. “Three years from now, I think it’ll be over most all of [...]
Dennis T. Avery
Praise From Sweden Must Ring Hollow To Cuban Families Who Are Rationed Seven Eggs A Month
CHURCHVILLE, Va. – Cuba is being honored as the only country trying to feed a modern society with organic farming. Its organic farming association was awarded an “Alternative Nobel Prize” last year in the Swedish Parliament.
Eco-activists across the [...]
How Good Is Organic Food?
20/20’s John Stossel Investigates
ANCHOR BARBARA WALTERS: Tonight, John Stossel has put aside his usual “give me a break†to bring you a surprising and important report. Do you think organic food is healthier and safer for you and your family and the planet? Millions of people do. Could all of them [...]
Dennis T. Avery
Corrupt Regimes in Africa and Phony Overpopulation Fears in the West Have Combined to Keep Africa Underfed
CHURCHVILLE, Va.-Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, says “I challenge the foremost experts in the world to think through the barrier of low agricultural productivity in Africa. I implore the great philanthropic foundations, which have stimulated [...]
Dennis T. Avery
The Mixed Planting Went So Well That China’s Farmers Were Able To Skip Spraying Fungicide In the Second Year of the Experiment
CHURCHVILLE, Va.-The Chinese are reporting a new way to increase crop yields and use less pesticide. Their farmers plant lots of different modern high-yield varieties of rice together, both in the fields [...]
Dennis T. Avery
Feeding Humanity From Organic Fields Would Mean Cropping Twice As Much Land As We Currently Plant, Starving Billions of Birds
CHURCHVILLE, Va.-The frenzied efforts of some “scientists” to gain fame and funding by pinning some eco-danger on biotech foods may have reached a peak last month at a British university.
A team at the University [...]
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If full implementation of TMDLs (Total Maximum Daily Loads) can be achieved nationwide, the federal government—specifically the EPA—will have gained control, as Whitten feared, over virtually the entire American economy.
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Years of black propaganda from the organic fringe, backed by the BSE tragedy, have had a perceptible effect on consumer views. By their very nature, organics promote health and food
safety, implying that non-organic food is somehow unhealthy and dangerous.â€
Richard A. Halpern
The Low-Oxygen Zone in the Gulf of Mexico Is Related to Rainfall Levels, Not Nitrogen Fertilizer
Just as the Clinton-Gore administration is set to recommend a radical cutback in Midwest farming, the Gulf of Mexico nitrogen problem is looking like a false alarm.
A White House task force claims too much nitrogen from farming is [...]
Dennis T. Avery
The Vice President Claims To Stand Behind “Every Word” Of “Earth In The Balance,”
In Which He Recommended High Fuel Taxes
CHURCHVILLE, Va.-During this summer’s controversy over high gas prices, Vice President Al Gore accused Gov. George W. Bush of wanting higher oil prices to benefit Bush’s friends in the oil business.
But even as [...]
