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By Alex Avery on August 03rd, 2001

Cesspools of Blame: Eco-Group’s ‘Environmental’ Manure Policy Would Betray the Environment

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The Natural Resources Defense Council recently published a new report which recommends banning both confinement livestock and poultry feeding and the spreading of manure on the nation’s crop fields. Unfortunately, such a policy would force America to convert millions of acres of land from wildlife habitat to hog and poultry pastures, even as it [...]

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By Alex Avery on August 03rd, 2001

Sustaining Family Farms By Blocking World Trade

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Ralph Nader’s No-NAFTA Solution To Sustaining Family Farms Would Mean Cutting Back Output From
The Productive Farmlands In the US, Canada and Europe By perhaps One-Third
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–As President Bush attempts to get negotiating authority for a new round of trade liberalization, activist Ralph Nader’s organization, Public Citizen, claims the North American Free Trade Agreement [...]

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By Alex Avery on July 27th, 2001

Making US Schools Safe For Roaches and Ragweed

Dennis T. Avery
A Senate Bill Would Require Schools To Notify Parents Each Time They Use A Pesticide
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–For 40 years activists have filled our newspapers and news reports with claims that pesticides endanger children. Now the activists want to drag the schools into their fear campaign.
The effort is being led by the National Coalition Against [...]

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By Alex Avery on July 20th, 2001

At Last, A UN Report That May Help The Third World

Dennis T. Avery
The UN Points Out The Developed World’s Hypocrisy On Proposed Bans On GM Foods
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–A new UN report could persuade The New York Times and other major media into presenting balanced coverage of biotech crops.
The United Nation’s “Human Development Report 2001″ sharply criticizes First World governments for pandering to affluent young dissidents instead [...]

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By Alex Avery on July 13th, 2001

Why Are We Tampering With Nature?

Dennis T. Avery
…Because Otherwise Many Of Us Would Starve To Death,
As ABC Reporter John Stossel Points Out
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Every farmer who’s ever complained about modern agriculture being trashed by the media should get a tape of ABC reporter John Stossel’s recent television special “Tampering with Nature.”
Stossel spent an hour of national network time laying out [...]

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By Alex Avery on July 06th, 2001

Farms Where High Yields and Wildlife Go Hand In Hand

Dennis T. Avery
Making High-Yield Farming More Eco-Friendly
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Farming is not natural. All farming represents an intrusion on the wild ecology.
But modern farming is taking serious heat for growing its crops in monocultures–cultivating a single crop. The eco-activists, who mostly live in cities, say farms should look more like forests, with multi-story canopies and a wide [...]

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By Alex Avery on June 29th, 2001

EPA Mulls Fate of an Eco-Friendly Weedkiller

Dennis T. Avery
The Pesticide Atrazine Helps Combat Erosion and Improve Yields.
So Why is the EPA Guning for it?
CHURCHVILLE, Va.-The most important farm chemical hearing in 30 years is under way. The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a “special review” to decide whether the most widely used of modern weedkillers, atrazine, is safe enough to [...]

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By Alex Avery on June 23rd, 2001

Big Agriculture Isn’t What’s Ailing Farmers Today

Dennis T. Avery
Antitrust Lawsuits Against Agribusiness Conglomerates Will Only Hurt Farm Exports,
and Won’t Help Small Farmers
CHURCHVILLE, Va.-Kathleen Kelly, a ranch wife from Colorado, launched an eloquent attack against agribusiness monopolies at a recent U.S. conference on farm market structure held in Kansas City, Mo. Kelly was supposed to talk for 10 minutes. Instead she held [...]

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By Alex Avery on June 22nd, 2001

Not All’s Milk And Honey For Cows On Organic Farms

Dennis T. Avery
What Are Organic Milk Consumers Getting For Their Extra Money?
One Of The Finest Bits Of Copy I’ve Ever Read On A Product Package
The organic milk carton from my local store says it was produced by “a family of family farms” where the cows wander cheerfully in from the pasture, to be milked as [...]

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By Alex Avery on June 15th, 2001

Helping the World’s Farmers Save Wild Species

Dennis T. Avery
Environmentalists Take Great Pride in Global Expansion of Wildlife Preserves – But Half Of Major Preserves Are Heavily Used for Agriculture
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Nepal’s Royal Chitwin National Park is home to about 450 endangered rhinoceros and 100 of the world’s endangered tigers. But every year, the rhinos and tigers kill a handful of local people.
Tigers [...]

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