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Friday, August 3rd, 2001Download PDF
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 […]
Sustaining Family Farms By Blocking World Trade
Friday, August 3rd, 2001Dennis T. Avery
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 […]
Making US Schools Safe For Roaches and Ragweed
Friday, July 27th, 2001Dennis 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 […]
At Last, A UN Report That May Help The Third World
Friday, July 20th, 2001Dennis 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 […]
Why Are We Tampering With Nature?
Friday, July 13th, 2001Dennis 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 […]
Farms Where High Yields and Wildlife Go Hand In Hand
Friday, July 6th, 2001Dennis 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 […]
EPA Mulls Fate of an Eco-Friendly Weedkiller
Friday, June 29th, 2001Dennis 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 […]
Big Agriculture Isn’t What’s Ailing Farmers Today
Saturday, June 23rd, 2001Dennis 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 […]
Not All’s Milk And Honey For Cows On Organic Farms
Friday, June 22nd, 2001Dennis 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 […]
Helping the World’s Farmers Save Wild Species
Friday, June 15th, 2001Dennis 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 […]