Archive for 2002
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Friday, June 14th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Long-term field tests by a Swiss organic farming institute, as reported in Science on May 31, confirm that organic crops yield little more than half as much per acre as conventional farmers’ fields.
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture in Frick, Switzerland said its organic yields were “only” 20 percent lower than […]
Global Warming Didn’t Hurt Italian Agriculture
Wednesday, June 12th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Climate alarmists are fond of telling us that global warming will threaten our farms and food supplies by causing more droughts, floods and storms. But 122 years of detailed climate records from the University of Pisa, in Italy, say the rapid half-degree Centigrade warming of the past century has actually helped that […]
Bashing Bill Gates–For His Good Works
Tuesday, June 11th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Poor Bill Gates. His computer operating system was so good everybody uses it—so the government charged him with being a monopoly. Now Gates is giving away a chunk of his billions to help women and kids in poor countries get essential nutrients through fortified foods—and the “natural foods” crowd claims he’s enslaving […]
The Cancerous Legacy Of Rachel Carson
Thursday, June 6th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Six women in one of my neighbor families have breast cancer. Statistically, only one woman in eleven will contract it. The family told the local newspaper that it must be the pesticides sprayed by nearby farmers.
This is the cancerous legacy of Rachel Carson. She set people against their neighbors, their own […]
“Natural” and Organic Foods 8 Times More Likely to Have Safety and Recall Problems
Thursday, June 6th, 2002Download PDF
Organic and “all natural” products are revealed to be 8 times more likely to be recalled for safety related problems than conventional products, according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada records.
Today’s High-Yield Farming and Improved Seeds Can Defeat World Hunger–If We Have The Will
Monday, June 3rd, 2002This article was written by Senators George McGovern and Rudy Boschwitz
WASHINGTON, DC—Our only hope of staving off a global pandemic of starvation and wildlands destruction in the first half of this new century is to revive the Green Revolution that saved an estimated one billion lives in Asia, Africa and Latin America in the 1960s […]
Endangering Tropical Forests With Good Intentions
Thursday, May 30th, 2002Dennis T. Avery and Dr. Douglas Southgate
WASHINGTON, DC—One of the few places in Latin America where species-rich forests are not being lost is a Multiple Use Zone of 1.2 million acres located in northern Guatemala. In a country where economic misery and rapid population growth combine to drive yearly deforestation above 2.0 percent, the Zone […]
Will Teddy Kennedy Preserve The Antibiotics To Protect Our Kids?
Thursday, May 23rd, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Senator Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts recently introduced a bill that would ban all non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry production. He calls it the Preservation of Antibiotics for Human Treatment Act of 2002.
The concern is that using antibiotics in farming creates resistance to antibiotics used for treating humans. We know […]
Why Not A Declaration for Sustainable Farming And Forestry?
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—The Hudson Institute is hosting a new web-based “Declaration in Support of Protecting Nature With High-Yield Farming and Forestry”. It’s already been signed by two Nobel Peace Prize winners, a co-founder of Greenpeace, former Democratic Senator George McGovern, the 2001 World Food Prize winner (Per Pinstrup-Anderson) and dozens of top-ranked agricultural and […]
Did We Invite The Animal Rights Murder?
Monday, May 13th, 2002Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—A vegan animal-rights militant, Volkert van der Graaf, is charged with the May 6th assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. So much for the general impression that vegetarians and animal rights activists are gentle, slightly quirky, but “well-meaning.”
The Dutch extremist thereby joins ranks with the Sept. 11 al Qaeda airline hijackers, […]