Yearly Archives: 2002

Dennis T. Avery CHURCHVILLE, VA—In the midst of the drought-driven crop failure in southern Africa, the President of Zambia is risking starvation for hundreds of thousands of his people by refusing to distribute U.S. corn donated as food aid. President … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery CHURCHVILLE, VA—The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development was originally supposed to replay the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. However, the summit planners couldn’t find any lofty eco-goal that would have energized the world. Environmental gains in … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery and Alex A. Avery Washington Times op-ed Are European officials and prestigious science journals truly applauding one of the world’s bloodiest dictators for rejecting food aid for his starving people just because some of the corn may … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery CHURCHVILLE, VA—American farmers are destroying the topsoil and can no longer produce healthy food, claims George Pyle, writing for the Kansas Land Institute in the Los Angeles Times. Pyle warns that we must go back to traditional … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery CHURCHVILLE, VA – Stock up on mosquito repellent. West Nile virus, now being spread rapidly across the United States by mosquitoes, kills wild birds and can cause a potentially fatal brain inflammation in humans. The CDC has … Continue reading →

CNN SUNDAY MORNING THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Consumer advocates say Americans are losing choices when it comes to what they eat and … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery CHURCHVILLE, VA—The trial lawyers are now suing fast food restaurants for selling us too much fat, and bringing on heart attacks. The lawyers hope to win billions of dollars worth of Big Fat jury awards, in a … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery Daschle’s Stealth Move To Log Forests Should Make Green Allies See Red CHURCHVILLE, VA—Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is worried that the forests of the Black Hills in his home State of South Dakota will go up … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery CHURCHVILLE, VA—Governor Gray Davis of California has just signed a new state law that makes breathing illegal. Well, not quite. But California’s governor has just legally declared carbon dioxide—the air we humans exhale—a “dangerous pollutant.” The target … Continue reading →