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Monday, October 4th, 2004Dennis Avery
President Bush has now made his bid for America’s farm vote in November. The stakes couldn’t be much higher, with both the White House and the Senate potentially turning on farmer votes in close Midwest states.
Bush and his trade negotiator, Robert Zoellick, just led a coalition of Third World countries to a major victory […]
The Meat Industry and the Consumer Confidence Challenge
Friday, October 1st, 2004Presentation to the American Meat Institute: The Meat Industry and the Consumer Confidence Challenge Dennis AveryIt’s happened again. The food industry has once again allowed activists and headline-hungry journalists to turn the safest food system in human history into a house of horrors. Once again, there has been no effective answer or strategy on behalf […]
European Commission Funding Anti-Biotech Crop Activists
Thursday, September 30th, 2004Dennis Avery
The European activist brochure asks, “What’s wrong with genetically modified foods?”
It answers its own question with misstatements that are financially supported by the European Commission.
“The claim that GM crops require fewer herbicides and pesticides has been proved wrong,” says the brochure. “They require fewer chemicals than conventional crops in the short term. But gradually […]
Both Presidential Candidates Wrong on Farm Subsidies Says Top Expert
Friday, September 24th, 2004Dennis Avery
U.S. farm subsidies are worsening the decline of rural America, says a top U.S. farm policy expert. Yet John Kerry is supporting the increased federal farm payments authorized by the new farm bill President Bush signed in 2002. Both parties may be wrong on farm subsidies. Apparently, the U.S. will keep pouring billions of […]
Three Big Hurricanes In A Row: Is It Global Warming?
Friday, September 17th, 2004Dennis Avery
Americans have sat transfixed during the last month as three big hurricanes in a row pounded in from the Gulf of Mexico.
Is it due to Global Warming?
The computerized global climate models predict we’ll get more and bigger storms as the planet warms. The Worldwatch Institute says “heat in the atmosphere is the fuel that […]
We Can’t Stop The Earth’s Natural 1500-Year Climate Cycle
Thursday, September 16th, 2004Dennis Avery
Should America give up fossil fuels, cars, and air conditioning?
Should we ration electricity from noisy, erratic windmills, while ignoring trillions of barrels of low-grade petroleum in bitumen deposits that could cost-effectively power our society for another 200 years?
Should we vote for a Greenhouse Theory that can’t explain Earth’s recent climate changes?
Or should we examine […]
Does Mrs. Kerry Really Want Organic Hog Farms?
Friday, September 10th, 2004Dennis Avery
Teresa Heinz Kerry lavishly praised organic hog farming at one of her husband’s recent campaign rallies in Iowa. Is Mrs. Kerry really sure that this is what she should offer America?
I grew up next to Herman Weaver’s outdoor hogs. Mrs. Kerry grew up in a fancy urban neighborhood that definitely had no hogs.
Mrs. Kerry, […]
How Should the Feed Industry View the Consumer Confidence Challenge?
Thursday, September 9th, 2004Dennis Avery
It’s happened again. The food industry has once again allowed activists and headline-hungry journalists to turn the safest food system in human history into a house of horrors. Once again, there has been no effective answer or strategy on behalf of the food system to the unwarranted public attack.
The Mad Cow Media Circus […]
Russian Scientists Say “Nyet” To Global Warming
Tuesday, September 7th, 2004Dennis Avery
The Russian Academy of Sciences is saying “Nyet,” to the Kyoto global warming treaty, following an international seminar on climate change in Moscow.
A team of British scientists, invited to present the scientific case for the treaty, clashed at the seminar with an international team of global warming skeptics. The British team leader, Sir David […]
ll The Presidential Candidates Rape The Environment for Ethanol?
Friday, August 13th, 2004Dennis Avery
John Kerry wants to double our ethanol production, to 5 billion gallons per year. So does President Bush and most of the U.S. Congress. Especially in a presidential election year.
Ethanol makes farmers feel all warm and fuzzy, and farmers will vote for both Presidential and Senate candidates in closely contested Midwest states this fall. […]