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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004Dennis Avery
No Need To Fret About Climate Change Now With The Next Big Chill Some 600 Years Away
Environmental alarmists insist that global warming will likely bring massive famines to the Earth over the next hundred years. Yet tangible, recorded history, tells us the real threat of famine will arrive about 600 to 800 years from […]
Europe Surrenders On Biotech Food Safety
Monday, November 15th, 2004Dennis Avery
The European Commission has just approved a biotech corn variety for human consumption in Western Europe’s 25 countries. The EC also says that individual countries cannot block farmers from growing approved crop varieties. In effect, the EU is finally surrendering to the reality that genetically engineered crops are safe and effectively regulated.
Environmental activists all […]
Sudden, Sharp Improvement in World Meat Export Prospects?
Thursday, November 11th, 2004Presentation to the Brazilian Meat Conference hosted by Elanco Animal Health
Dennis Avery
I am pleased to be here today and to able to talk about the sharp improvement in world meat export prospects that appears to be occurring in the World Trade Organization. The WTO’s current trade liberalization talks, the Doha Round, have suddenly taken an […]
Will Biotech Solve The Global Warming Drought Problem
Wednesday, November 10th, 2004Dennis Avery
I hadn’t expected to find the answer to the global warming drought problem at the 2004 World Food Prize awards ceremony in the grandly ornate old Iowa State Capitol building on October 14th. But that’s where I learned biotechnology is making big progress on drought-tolerant food grains.
Drought is already the world’s most important farm […]
The Power and Promise of Agricultural Biotechnology
Sunday, November 7th, 2004Presentation to Hanover College
Alex Avery
The name of my presentation reflects my fundamentalist rejection of the term genetically altered food. It’s an anti-biotech activist term deliberately designed to elicit distaste and turn off consumers. But more fundamentally, it is totally inaccurate. As a scientist, I simply cannot perpetuate the use of that term.
The terms “food” […]
New Global Warming Challenge For Bush’s Second Term
Friday, November 5th, 2004Dennis Avery
One early challenge for President Bush’s second term will be Russia’s upcoming ratification of the Kyoto global warming treaty-which will finally turn the Kyoto Protocol into a working international treaty. As more than 100 other countries begin to rein in their CO2 emissions, will Bush be able to hold firm his resolve to keep […]
Which Presidential Candidate Would Solve the Farm Problem?
Monday, October 25th, 2004Dennis Avery
At the end of every U.S. Presidential campaign, I ask: Which candidate is more likely to solve the farm problem?
For nearly 100 years, Americans have worried that not enough farmers were making enough money to keep our rural communities thriving and vigorous. The Congress has time and again appropriated billions of public dollars intended […]
America’s First Defense Against SuperFlu: Chickens in Confinement
Tuesday, October 19th, 2004Dennis Avery
Will thousands of Americans die of a virulent new “Asian flu” this year because countries such as Thailand, Vietnam and China keep most of their chickens in little, traditional backyard flocks?
In Thailand, a baby girl and her aunt have just died of the new Asian flu strain after mingling with the flu-infected chickens in […]
Trial Lawyers Now Even Have New Candidates Promising to Introduce Favored Legislation
Wednesday, October 13th, 2004Dennis Avery
Time was-and not so long ago at that-when the Democratic Party used to cater to the concerns of America’s working men and women. Now it caters to some of their major oppressors-personal injury lawyers.
Someone once described personal injury lawyers as American’s only real parasitic profession, and dozens of recent examples suggest that’s not mere […]
The Presidential Candidates and Endangered Species
Wednesday, October 6th, 2004Dennis Avery
The environmental movement is solidly behind John Kerry’s candidacy for President. Some activists even claim that “in President George W. Bush’s America, endangered species become extinct species.”
Bobby Kennedy Jr. wrote recently in The Nation that “coho salmon are probably headed for extinction” under President Bush.
What’s the reality of the two candidates on endangered species?
America […]