Yearly Archives: 2003

Dennis Avery Dr. James Schlesinger, Secretary of Energy under President Carter, has become the most prominent personage denying a “scientific consensus” on global warming. In the July 7, 2003 issue of the Washington Post, Dr. Schlesinger reminded us that when … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery The latest pseudo-scientific parlor game is pretending that the Little Ice Age didn’t happen. We’re supposed to ignore the historic reality that the world’s mean temperatures dropped sharply by 2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit from about 1300 AD … Continue reading →

Alex Avery Study in Journal of Pediatrics Adds Credence to “Milk is Milk” Campaign Today’s report in the Journal of Pediatrics confirms long-held suspicions that misleading labeling on dairy products and related marketing practices are driving consumers away from purchasing … Continue reading →

Alex Avery On HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the female lead character portrays a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council. It is appropriate that this show is a comedy, because NRDC has long been a bad national joke. How are … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Canada has found a case of mad cow disease-a beef steer in remote Alberta. No one knows how “mad cow” got there. Across the Atlantic, in Britain, more than 167,000 cows have been diagnosed with the disease since … Continue reading →

Horizon Dairy pockets profits at expense of consumers and farmers Contact: Alex Avery, aavery@rica.net, (540) 337-6354 CHURCHVILLE, Va., June 18, 2003 — “It doesn’t matter what’s true, it only matters what consumers believe.” Sadly, these are the words of Horizon … Continue reading →

CGFI Press Release Contact: Alex Avery, aavery@rica.net, (540) 337-6354 CHURCHVILLE, Va., June 17, 2003 — A panel of activists claiming to be scientists from “many disciplines, committed to the promotion of science for the public good” is actually two organic … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery For those of us huddled in fear of global warming — or the fear of losing our furnaces and air conditioners to the harsh energy rationing of the Kyoto treaty — new research is swatting aside the worst … Continue reading →

By Peter Raven The following is a speech by Peter Raven, originally posted to AgBioWorld. For more on this subject, visit our High-yield Declaration web site. It is difficult to comprehend that as recently as 10,000 years, or about 400 … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery American teen obesity has increased 10 percent in the last 20 years — but they’re eating only one percent more calories. Unfortunately, they are also exercising 13 percent less. That’s the verdict from federal data bases at the … Continue reading →