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Sunday, November 10th, 2002Excerpts from Michael Pollan, writing on “An Animal’s Place,”
Sunday in the New York Times Magazine
A “human morality based on individual rights makes for an awkward fit when applied to the natural world. This should come as no surprise: Morality is an artifact of human culture, devised to help us negotiate social relations. It’s very good […]
China Finds No “Unprecedented Warming” in Today’s Climate
Monday, November 4th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
Chinese climate researchers say today’s world climate shows no unprecedented warming. After analyzing nine separate Chinese historic temperature sources, they’ve concluded that China’s warmest temperatures occurred nearly 2000 years ago when Europe was in the well-documented Roman Warming.
Global warming activists want us to believe the world had nice, stable temperatures until humans came […]
Is Global Warming Causing Africa’s Famines?
Friday, November 1st, 2002Dennis T. Avery
“Global warming is helping to cause an unprecedented series of famines, which is pushing the world beyond its ability to cope, according to the United Nations,” writes Geoffrey Lean, environment editor of Britain’s Independent newspaper.
The Earth is “facing a worrisome situations with catastrophes occurring daily, causing enormous damage and making climate change an […]
Frog Sex-Change Claims Flawed
Wednesday, October 30th, 2002Jumping to conclusions could hurt farmers and the environment
Contact: Alex Avery of the Center for Global Food Issues, 540-337-6354, or aavery@rica.net.
Churchville, VA, Oct 30, 2002 - A recent study by Tyrone Hayes and colleagues published in Environmental Health Perspectives and soon to be published in Nature, purports that low concentrations of the herbicide atrazine cause […]
Organic Food Marketers Make False Health Claims
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002Organic pesticides may cause cancer and liver disease
Contact: Alex Avery of the Center for Global Food Issues, 540-337-6354, or aavery@rica.net.
Churchville, VA, Oct 23, 2002 — As new organic labeling laws take effect this week, the USDA has pointed out that it “makes no claim that organically produced food is safer or more nutritious than […]
‘Negative Campaigning’ for the New U.S. Organic Food Standards
Friday, October 18th, 2002Dennis T. Avery and Alex A. Avery
“Organic food is certainly safer and better than the chemical-doused, genetically contaminated, or irradiated food typically found on grocery store shelves.”
— Organic Consumers Association press release, Oct. 1, 2002
“When you eat food that is organically grown, you are taking a pledge to your health, while helping our environment, one […]
Faith in Science Isn’t Going to Win This One for Us
Friday, October 18th, 2002Alex A. Avery
More than 40 years of research has yet to document a single case in which antibiotic use in food animals has caused human disease due to antibiotic resistance. That scientific stamp of approval by default should reassure us. Yet, the FDA is poised to pull flouroquinolines from already limited and closely monitored use […]
Could Global Warming Trigger Another Ice Age Any Day Now?
Friday, October 11th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
An eminent marine scientist says global warming may not be the worst of our planetary worries. He says warming could melt too much ice into fresh water, overwhelm the ocean currents and suddenly bring on another Little Ice Age! He warns this could happen any moment now, and the icy climate could last […]
Government Finally Demanding Safe Hamburgers
Thursday, October 10th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
The government is afraid our love affair with the hamburger will kill us. They’re afraid to say it out loud, but they want our hamburgers irradiated to kill virulent bacteria. Specifically, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is afraid of Americans being attacked by the deadly E. coli O157:H7.
They’ve got good reason to […]
Organic Writers Miss the Elephant — Again
Monday, September 30th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA - I’ve never been quoted in a national magazine cover story before. Unfortunately, my quote was a trivial part of a truly dangerous article (”Should You Buy Organic?”) in the September 30 issue of Newsweek.
The story concludes that, “an organic ethic could be the very key to our survival.” That’s a […]