Archive for 2002
« Previous EntriesA Seed Europe Attacks
Thursday, December 19th, 2002“High-Yield Hogwash: ‘Corporates’ Against Organics”
A Seed Europe, an Amsterdam-based anti-globalization group, is attacking Dr. Norman Borlaug’s new Declaration in Support of Protecting Nature with High-Yield Farming and Forestry as a corporate effort to greenwash capitalist greed. But which of the founding signers of the Declaration is a corporate puppetmaster?
Find the Corporate Corrupters!
Dr. Norman Borlaug won […]
Hunger for the Holidays
Monday, December 16th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
As you gaze at the beauty of your Christmas tree or the warmth of your Hanukkah candles this holiday season, offer a moment of silence for the needlessly hungry of the world who won’t be having holiday feasts this year.
In North Korea, the Communist government that both controls the food production — […]
High-yield Conservation Declaration Signers Honored by Activists
Thursday, December 12th, 2002At least they’re paying attention
The High-Yield Conservation Declaration hosted by the Center for Global Food Issues has achieved one minor measure of success, if a recent article from a “whactivist” newsletter is any indication.
According to the article, the High-Yield Conservation Declaration is merely a tool of big agribusinesses to “greenwash” in an effort that is […]
One Hand Clapping: Organic Farming in India
Thursday, December 12th, 2002By Dave Wood, December 12, 2002
Vandana Shiva now consistently recommends agricultural policies that will damage Indian farm productivity and national competitiveness in global agricultural trade. Will Shiva’s bad advice wreck Indian farming?
She now pushes for organic agriculture. In her ‘rejection’ speech for her Johannesburg ‘BS award for sustaining poverty’ http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-11/12shiva.cfm (posted on AgBioView 25 November) […]
Let’s Take the False Labels Off Dairy Products
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2002Dennis T. Avery
With the prevailing emphasis on truth in advertising and consumer rights, why isn’t the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banning the false and misleading labels and advertising of the organic milk and dairy products in our retail stores?
I’m looking at a set of “By Nature” brand milk and butter cartons, all stating that […]
Why Were the Pilgrims and the Indians So Different?
Friday, November 22nd, 2002Dennis T. Avery
The Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving had books, firearms, and sailing ships. The Indians were still living in the Stone Age, hunting deer and turkeys with flint-tipped arrows and traveling in birch bark canoes.
Why the radical difference in the two societies? Agriculture, says biological historian Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Guns, […]
Conservation Tillage Video
Thursday, November 21st, 2002The Center for Global Food Issues, Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug, Greenpeace Founder Dr. Patrick Moore and Syngenta Crop Protection were recently featured on WJMK TV’s American Environmental Review series hosted by 60 Minutes’ Morley Safer.
This nationally syndicated program is seen on public television stations in the U.S. and via Worldnet in over 100 countries. […]
Celebrating the 30th Birthday of the Clean Water Act
Wednesday, November 20th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA - We’ve just passed the 30th birthday of the Clean Water Act.
When the CWA was signed into law on Oct. 18, 1972, most of us still vividly remembered the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland catching fire (due to an oil spill) in 1969. The Potomac River flowing past the Capitol Building was […]
British Crop Group Speaker Claims Organic Farming on a Global Basis Would be an Environmental Catastrophe
Friday, November 15th, 2002Nobel Laureates, World Leaders and Even Greenpeace Founder
Prefer High-Yielding Conventional Agriculture
Contact: Alex Avery of the Center for Global Food Issues, 540-337-6354, or aavery@rica.net.
Churchville, VA, November 15, 2002 - Dennis Avery, Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues (CGFI) will present a speech at the British Crop Protection Council Conference this Monday, November […]
In Search of a (Biotech-) Free Lunch
Friday, November 15th, 2002Alex Avery
Consumers will say yes to almost anything if it’s offered for free, but it’s a whole different story if there is real price to pay. This fact was demonstrated by the overwhelming defeat this last election of a statewide ballot initiative in Oregon, named Measure 27, which would have mandated labeling of all biotech […]