Archive for 2002
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Thursday, September 26th, 2002Dennis 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 Levy Mwanawasa says he’s been told by such anti-biotech groups as Greenpeace and Friends of the […]
Why We Had A Poverty Summit In Johannesburg, Not An Eco-Summit
Thursday, August 22nd, 2002Dennis 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 the past three decades have been so great that few people are still angry about the […]
Let Them Eat Dust
Wednesday, August 21st, 2002Dennis 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 be genetically modified?
We’re talking about Robert Mugabe, the so-called president of Zimbabwe, who used mobs to strong-arm […]
Another Dust Bowl . . . Or Just Blowing Smoke?
Friday, August 9th, 2002Dennis 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 farming before we create another Dust Bowl. But if traditional farming was so wonderful, how come […]
‘Natural’ Bug Repellent Won’t Protect Against West Nile Virus
Thursday, August 8th, 2002Dennis 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 confirmed nearly 200 human cases, and about two dozen deaths, since the disease was first found […]
Richard Berman: CNN Interview With John Banzhaf, Richard Berman
Sunday, August 4th, 2002CNN 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 drink. And that means they’re also losing the fight against obesity. Part of the problem, say some, […]
What Makes Us Fat? The Trial Lawyers Weigh In
Thursday, August 1st, 2002Dennis 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 glorious replay of their victory over Big Tobacco. And they are publicly inviting all chubby Americans […]
Engineering A Sustainable–and Sustaining–World Food Supply
Monday, July 29th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
This speech was given before the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in Chicago, IL
The Declaration for High-Yield Agriculture
On April 30, 2002, a new “Declaration in Support of Protecting Nature With High-Yield Farming and Forestry” was signed in Washington, D.C. The founding signers included two Nobel Peace Prize winners, a co-founder of Greenpeace, […]
Special Deal For South Dakota
Thursday, July 25th, 2002Dennis 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 in smoke this dry summer. He wants the forests thinned, to reduce the fuel for big fires. […]
Will California Make Breathing Illegal?
Wednesday, July 24th, 2002Dennis 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 of the new law is not human breathing—yet.
Its immediate target is the automobile, California’s favorite […]