Dennis T. Avery
WASHINGTON, DC – I confidently predict that the world’s intense debate about genetic engineering will continue in 2002. My top twelve predictions on biotech:
Genetic engineering will be praised in the New Year for providing a potential new cure for cancer. (Human trials of a new tumor-killing molecule are scheduled to start next spring.)
However, [...]
Dennis T. Avery
WASHINGTON, DC – As the world tries to celebrate peace despite another strife-torn holiday season, two Nobel Peace Prize winners are pleading for high-yield food production to help relieve Third World poverty and land shortages.
Oscar Arias, the former Costa Rican President, won the Peace Prize in 1987 for brokering a truce between Nicaragua [...]
Dennis T. Avery
WASHINGTON, DC – There once was a country so high-tech, so rich and so powerful that it didn’t need international trade. It had everything it wanted at home, so it closed its borders. That nation was 12th Century China.
At the time, China had already invented gunpowder, rockets, clocks, and the world’s most [...]
Dennis T. Avery
WASHINGTON, DC-A bioterrorist has been caught. An American scientist who terrified the U.S. public, hoodwinked the scientific press, and panicked the congress has been found out.
The Federal Office of Research Integrity just ruled that Steven R. Arnold, a former researcher at the Tulane University Center for Bioenvironmental Research, “committed scientific misconduct by [...]
Dennis T. Avery
WASHINGTON, DC – President Bush is taking a big gamble on farm policy: He’s agreed to accept a new Congressional farm bill that boosts farm subsidies by $73.5 billion over the next few years—supposedly in return for Congressional approval of his long-sought Trade Promotion Authority.
Bush hopes that by accepting an expensive farm [...]
Dennis T. Avery
WASHINGTON, DC – Two of the world’s activist splinter groups are relying on violent threats to force us away from the 21st century and back into the poverty and ignorance of the 15th century. One of these groups is Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda. One is not.
Two groups of terrorists risk the [...]
Dennis T. Avery
WASHINGTON, DC – The trade ministers of 140 countries just handed American farmers their first realistic chance to end the European Union’s predatory export dumping, and gain major food and feed sales in densely-populated and newly-affluent Asian countries. November 14, 2001, in the Persian Gulf city of Doha, may well go down as [...]
Dennis T. Avery
WASHINGTON, DC – The anti-globalization protesters mostly didn’t show up for the November 9-13 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Doha, Qatar. American farmers, denied the opportunity to expand their exports by these activists for the last two years, can feel some vindication.
It wasn’t Doha’s remoteness on the Persian Gulf coast [...]
Dennis T. Avery
Washington, DC – Nearly two years ago, the world tried to open a freer-trade negotiation in Seattle. The event was blocked by thousands of environmental activists and labor union demonstrators who took over the streets, assaulted restaurants, and smashed store windows throughout the downtown. Will the activists attack globalization again in the Qatar [...]
Dennis T. Avery
WASHINGTON, DC – The world is starting another urgently needed effort to liberalize farm trade. Fittingly, the World Trade Organization is re-starting the trade negotiations, stalled by activist demonstrations in Seattle two years ago, in the tiny, oil-rich country of Qatar.
Much of the world is not well suited to farming, a reality [...]
