Yearly Archives: 2004

They Are All Lying About Free Trade

Dennis Avery Any politician who opposes free trade-and that includes every current candidate for U.S. President-is against the best interests of the people and wildlife on this planet. Oh, they’ll claim to be “protecting jobs;” or, “keeping America’s small farmers … Continue reading

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Is President Bush Politicizing Science?

Dennis Avery A whole posse of Nobel Prize laureates and National Science Medal winners has accused the Bush White House of politicizing science. That’s odd, since President Bush is proposing more peer reviews of the science going into federal reports … Continue reading

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Nuclear Power Plants as a Health Boon?

Dennis Avery Would building more nuclear power plants help Americans live longer? Many people currently fear that burning fossil fuels is warming the planet. Nuclear power plants deliver electricity without creating greenhouse gases like coal-fired generators. Nuclear plants don’t “drown” … Continue reading

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Comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, On the Proposed Five-year Strategic Plan for the FSA

Comments to the USDA’s Farm Service Agency, On the Proposed Five-Year Strategic Plan for the FSA Dennis Avery and Dr. Thomas Elam Submitted February 10, 2004, in connection with the meeting of the agency’s external stakeholders at the Wyndham Hotel, … Continue reading

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Presentation to the National Turkey Federation: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century

Presentation to the National Turkey Federation: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century Dennis Avery . . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out wild beasts. . . and there are such great cities where … Continue reading

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Third-World Refugees Don’t Flee Eco-Disasters But Grinding Poverty and Cruel Repression

Dennis Avery One of the world’s leading eco-alarmists, Lester Brown, is clanging the fire bell again – this time warning that huge numbers of Third World “environmental refugees” are fleeing the impacts of over-population, over-grazing, over-logging and over-farming. If that … Continue reading

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Who Will Produce the World’s Food (and Pork) in the Next Decade?

Presented at the Hyologisk 25th Anniversary Conference Braedstrup, Denmark Alex Avery February 4, 2004 A dozen years ago, I retired from the U.S. State Department-and began a mission to convince First World farmers they had more to gain from free … Continue reading

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Blair Bets a British Bundle on Massive Cuts in Energy Use to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

Dennis Avery The British government – a firm believer in global warming despite the chilliest winter in recent memory – is about to wager a good portion of the Exchequer in support of its “true green” belief. On January 20, … Continue reading

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Farmed Salmon: Should We Listen To Activists or Food Safety Experts?

Dennis Avery and Alex Avery Last year an activist group warned, on the basis of testing 14 fish, that farmed salmon posed a ‘grave cancer risk’ due to traces (from their feed) of dioxin, PCBs, and pesticide residues that accumulate … Continue reading

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Global Cooling Kills Thousands

Dennis Avery ‘Global cooling’ has killed thousands of people during the past couple of weeks. In a foretaste of the next Little Ice Age, thousands of elderly and street people died of cold in frigid Western Europe and hundreds in … Continue reading

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