Yearly Archives: 2004

Dennis Avery Brace yourself for more screaming “mad cow” headlines. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is starting to test hundreds of thousands of cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), hoping we won’t find any. The U.S. already banned feeding ruminant-based … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery The latest research from the University of Minnesota renews concerns that organic produce has higher bacterial risks than conventional fruits and vegetables. The Minnesota researchers found significantly more E. coli and more Salmonella bacteria on organic produce than … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Soso Whaley lost ten pounds while eating three meals a day for 30 days at McDonalds! She says she feels great. Her secret: she limited herself to 1,800 calories a day. Sometimes she ate the Big Mac, but … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery The forthcoming Hollywood movie, The Day After Tomorrow stars Dennis Quaid as an earnest climatologist trying to save the world from catastrophic global cooling-brought on by burning fossil fuels. The special effects are said to be spectacular, but … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Last week we celebrated Earth Day and it was a fantastic success. No American river caught fire. Brown clouds of smog did not engulf New York City. No children were poisoned by leaded gasoline. No major U.S. corporation … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Oxfam, the British charity, is calling for an immediate slash in rich-country sugar subsidies that lock out sugar imports from desperately poor places like Northeast Brazil and Mozambique that can produce little except sugar cane. EU sugar subsidies, … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Fans of the Kyoto global warming treaty are busily floating rumors and reasons why Russia will soon sign the protocol and finally bring it into force. President Bush has refused to sign Kyoto, so the agreement must get … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery It seems an unbridgeable distance from Washington’s grandest ballroom-the crystal-chandeliered and silk-brocaded Benjamin Franklin Room atop the State Department-to the muddy fields of hungry West Africa and the “hungry ghosts” who struggle for sustenance on crowded Asia’s marginal … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery The U.S. Department of Agriculture will test far more cattle for “mad cow disease” next year-more than 250,000 animals at a public cost of $70 million. Will that make our beef safer? Probably not. Our beef is already … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Why are Americans so afraid of some jobs being outsourced? I’m paying more tax dollars for “homeland security” to protect my family from the hopeless and unemployed of the Middle East. Why would I be unhappy that some … Continue reading →