Archive for 2001
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Friday, June 8th, 2001Dennis T. Avery
The First Rule Of Toxicology Is “The Dose Makes The Poison”
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–One of organic farming’s most widely used pesticides–pyrethrum–has been classified as a “likely human carcinogen.” An advisory committee to the Environmental Protection Agency made the classification two years ago, after pyrethrum caused higher-than-normal numbers of tumors in two different sets of laboratory […]
Preserving Wildlife Habitat Through High-Tech Farming
Monday, June 4th, 2001Dennis T. Avery
The Tenor of the Environmental Debate Is Bound To Change By The World Conservation Union’s Endorsement Of High-Yield Farming
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–The World Conservation Union and Future Harvest (representing Third World agricultural researchers) have just issued a path-breaking wildlife conservation report declaring that high-yield “ecoagriculture” must be a major part of the world’s efforts to […]
The Deadly Chemicals in Organic Food
Saturday, June 2nd, 2001Originally Published in the New York Post, June 2001
June 2, 2001 — IF you buy organic food because you think it’s free of the cancer-causing pesticides used on other farms, think again. “Organic” farmers routinely spray their crops with naturally occurring pesticides - and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified pyrethrum, a top organic […]
Bridging The Chasm Between Conservation And Farming
Friday, May 25th, 2001Dennis T. Avery
A Conservation Group And An Agricultural Research Group Publicly Agree That People, Agriculture And Wildlife Must Share The Planet
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–I have just received one of the most important documents I’ve seen in years. It comes from the World Conservation Union and Future Harvest, the network of agricultural research and conservation centers for the […]
Breeding Broccoli To Fight Cancer More Effectively
Friday, May 11th, 2001Dennis T. Avery
Using Modern Science To Discover Nature’s Most Efficient Cancer-Fighting Foods
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Is natural food better for us than the modern high- tech stuff? Lots of folks believe this is true, to judge from the labels in my supermarket.
Never mind that natural fungal toxins have always infested unprotected crops and that there is a […]
As Nations Embrace Free Trade, Their Farmers Say No
Friday, May 4th, 2001Dennis T. Avery
Liberalizing Western Hemisphere Farm Trade Without Opening Up The Asian Market Could Mean A Flood Of South American Farm Goods to The US
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–The Quebec trade summit is over, the protesters have gone home and Western Hemisphere nations have agreed to wipe out their mutual trade barriers within the next four years.
Are U.S. […]
A Growing World Will Need More Irrigation
Friday, April 27th, 2001Dennis T. Avery
Some Environmentalists Want To Burst Dams, But Feeding the 21st Century May Require Building More
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–The World Bank is no longer funding dams. Eco- activists are blocking new dams. More and more of the water from existing dams is being released for fish management instead of irrigation or electricity.
Irrigation wells are drawing down […]
Free Farm Trade Tries To Regain Momentum In Quebec
Friday, April 20th, 2001Dennis T. Avery
Despite The Setback For Free Trade In Seattle, There Are Bright Spots In the Farm Trade Liberalization Picture
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–As trade protesters gather again, this time in Quebec for the Summit of the Americas, the farm trade negotiators conducting the World Trade Organization’s reform talks have agreed to step up their pace.
They’re trying to […]
Emulating The Sound Eating Habits Of The Stone Age
Friday, April 6th, 2001Dennis T. Avery
Stone Age Farmers On Plant Diets May Have Lacked Vitamins.
Tomorrow’s Challenge Is Ensuring Livestock Diets For The Developing World
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–”It’s easy to tell from the skeletons of our ancestors whether they were agriculturists or hunter-gatherers,” says Arthur de Vany of California State University, an expert on Stone Age diets.
“The agriculturists have bad […]
Model Organic Farmers Struggle To Stay Afloat
Friday, March 30th, 2001Dennis T. Avery
If Organic Farming Like This Is The Hope For Feeding The World, We Aren’t Going To Eat Well
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Jon Watts and Jenny Tutlis grow five acres of organic crops in northwest Michigan, and their Meadowlark Farm is featured in the May-June issue of Organic Gardening magazine.
Both of the young farmers grew up in […]