Yearly Archives: 2001

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 … Continue reading →

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, … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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, … Continue reading →

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, … Continue reading →