Yearly Archives: 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 … Continue reading →

Dennis 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 … Continue reading →

At 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 … Continue reading →

By 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 … Continue reading →

Dennis 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 … Continue reading →

Dennis 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 … Continue reading →

The 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 … Continue reading →

Dennis 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 … Continue reading →

Nobel 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 … Continue reading →

Alex 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 … Continue reading →