Dennis Avery
Despite the headlines, “mad cow disease” is unlikely to claim a single human victim in this country.
The reason is simple. The British have already paid the human price for learning about this apparently new and fatal disease, with nearly 140 deaths and years of lurking fear for millions of consumers. Thanks to the UK’s [...]
Dennis Avery
More Americans are more overweight than ever before, and the trend is worst among our young people. Peter Jennings had a whole hour of national network TV time last week to talk about this important and growing problem. What did Mr. Jennings tell America about this impending danger?
He said it’s not our fault that [...]
Dennis Avery
A committee of the California legislature recently voted to ban hand-weeding on the State’s commercial farms. California wants its weeds controlled without anybody having to bend, squat, crouch, or kneel-thus risking degenerative back problems.
Concurrently, other activists want the weeds controlled without any chemical sprays. Political activists in both California and Canada are attempting to [...]
Alex Avery
Presented December 11, 2003
National Agricultural Aviators Association
Reno, Nevada
For two decades, an epic war has engulfed society between those who look backward toward a fictional natural past – an organic utopia – and those who look forward through technology and science envisioning a sustainable future. This war has escalated over the last two decades, with [...]
Dennis Avery
Zealots have apparently struck another blow at the civility of modern society, this time in broadly-tolerant Sweden.
Swedish police are dealing with two cases in which “animal rights” activists may have injected rat poison into meat in supermarkets.
“The crime has not yet been proven since we don’t know exactly which poison we are looking for,” [...]
Dennis Avery
As my family gathers at the Thanksgiving feast this year, I am thankful that a larger percentage of the world’s people than ever before enjoy food abundance. I am thankful that last winter’s famine in southern Africa was no worse than it was, and that such famines are becoming increasingly rare. I am thankful [...]
Dennis Avery
The UN’s global warming panel is cooking up another scary report for 2004.
Their 1996 report, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fraudulently claimed it saw “a discernible human influence” on the current climate. The IPCC is apparently determined to keep repeating that admitted lie.
The IPCC’s science experts approved the original 1996 version of [...]
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This extensive review of state-collected water quality data from North Carolina, conducted [...]
Dennis Avery
I’ve just received a harsh critique-from the President of California’s organic farmers- on a recent column about Britain recalling all six tested brands of organic corn meal. All six contained very high levels of fumonisin, a natural fungal toxin linked to cancer, kidney and liver diseases, and birth defects.
The organic corn meal brands averaged [...]
Dennis Avery
One of the most influential scientific studies supporting the case for man-made global warming has just been publicly condemned for “poor data handling, selective use of sources, reliance on obsolete versions of source data and erroneous statistical calculations.”
The disputed study’s authors, led by Dr. Michael Mann of the University of Virginia, claimed the historically [...]
