Archive for 2002
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Tuesday, July 23rd, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Bobby Kennedy, Jr. has been publicly promising to sue all of America’s “factory hog farms” out of business, and put 60 million U.S. hogs back outdoors. Having grown up next to a smelly, muddy outdoor hog farm, I know this is a bad idea. Now, a federal judge has dismissed Bobby, Jr.’s […]
SuperCrops-New Research Reveals Future of Farming Is Pesticide Free Through Biotechnology
Monday, July 22nd, 2002Alex Avery
This article was co-authored by Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—It is now clear that agricultural biotechnology is THE future of farming. Biotech has already delivered eco-friendly crops that protect themselves from insects and disease. Now, new research reveals a future where crops will also protect themselves from weeds. One by one, biotechnology is finding ways […]
Danish Government Report Says Organic Farming Is Not Practical
Tuesday, July 16th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—A Swiss organic research farm recently announced in the journal Science that “organic farming is practical” because its organic crop yields over 21 years were only 20 percent smaller than the yields from its conventional plots.
Well, maybe. But government officials in Denmark don’t agree.
A couple of years ago, the Danes appointed a […]
Organic Farmer Sickens 70 With Raw Milk
Tuesday, July 9th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
This article was co-authored by Senator Rudy Boschsitz
CHURCHVILLE, VA—A Wisconsin organic dairy farm has been forced to end a complex “cow-boarding” scheme that enabled 250 “shareholders” to get otherwise-illegal raw milk—but not before 70 people were sickened by campylobacter, a health-threatening bacterial disease.
Since the sale of unpasteurized milk is illegal in Wisconsin, farmer […]
Wages of Fear: The Costs to Society of Attacks on the Products of Human Ingenuity
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2002Download PDF
Page 12 of this Lexington Institute publication features “Bogus Health […]
Searching For Peace On this Fourth Of July
Friday, June 28th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
This Article was written by Senator Rudy Boschwitz, not Dennis Avery
WASHINGTON, DC— This Fourth of July, as in many times past, America is beset by ruthless enemies. But this time, our enemies are not a nation, they are a culture shaped by the intense envy of desert peoples. In the desert, there is […]
The Hidden Dangers In Organic Food
Tuesday, June 25th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
Products most people think are purer than other foods are making people seriously ill.
According to recent data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control CDC), people who eat organic and “natural” foods are eight times as likely as the rest of the population to be attacked by a deadly new strain of […]
Saving Healthful Fruits and Vegetables With Biotechnology
Wednesday, June 19th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—One of America’s top pest control experts says biotechnology is likely to save the California wine and grape industry from Pierce’s disease, which is rapidly spreading through Golden State vineyards. He says biotech has already saved the Hawaiian papaya industry from ring spot virus, and developed a virus-resistant raspberry to fend off […]
World Food Summit Endorses Biotechnology
Tuesday, June 18th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—In a stunning defeat for the global Green movement, the World Food Summit on June 11 formally endorsed biotechnology as a potentially-important factor in conquering world hunger. The Summit rejected activist demands for organic farming, in favor of the higher, more stable crop yields from modern conventional farming–and the enormous potential of […]
Biotech Drama Gone Awry Is Only A Scare
Monday, June 17th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Britain is being treated to a new TV drama about genetic engineering gone horribly wrong—killing old people and wildlife across the English countryside.
“Fields of Gold” produced by BBC 1 television, has already been condemned by one of its own scientific advisers as “ludicrous and inflammatory.” But it’s a politically correct scare.
Here’s the […]