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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005Organic farming can’t compete against the newest biotech farming systems.
Churchville, VA (PRWEB via PR Web Direct) July 18, 2005 — A recent press release from Cornell University claims that a new study demonstrates that “organic farms produce same yields as conventional farms.” The abstract to the new paper states that one of the benefits of […]
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July 27, 2005 Dennis Avery, 540-337-6354 or cgif@rica.net
Churchville, VA—”Claims that global warming will destroy up to a million wildlife species—as recently featured on ABC’s Nightline—are willfully misleading,” warned Dennis Avery of Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues at the American Society of Animal Science’s annual meeting on July […]
Do Personal Injury Lawyers Wield Too Much Influence On Capitol Hill?
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005Dennis Avery
MTBE, Asbestos And Teflon Cases Demonstrate Personal Injury Lawyers Are Kings Of The Hill
The plaintiff’s bar demonstrated its disproportionate clout on Capitol Hill a few days ago when it persuaded energy bill conferees to jettison a rule protecting producers of an EPA-sanctioned fuel additive against frivolous lawsuits.
A handful of wealthy personal injury lawyers […]
Bush Herds G8 Summit Leaders Into Global Warming Corral
Friday, July 15th, 2005Dennis Avery
You thought Texans were just hard-riding gunslingers. Yet George W. Bush has just evaded a huge ambush at the Gleneagles summit in Scotland and herded some of the world’s cleverest politicians into his global warming policy.
European leaders for the past two decades have been screaming that humanity was overheating the planet with too much […]
Ultra-Safe New Pesticide Proves Effective On Massive Global Insect Problems
Monday, July 11th, 2005Dennis Avery
One of the world’s newest and safest pesticides, spinosad, was fermented in a laboratory—from a rare soil bacterium discovered by a vacationing scientist in the soil of an abandoned Caribbean rum distillery in 1988. This combination of the natural and the high-tech won the Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Chemistry Award in 1999.
Spinosad is […]
U.S. Environment Can’t Afford Big Ethanol
Thursday, July 7th, 2005Dennis Avery
The Energy Bill passed by the Senate would require the U.S. to produce 8 billion gallons of ethanol per year. That’s a bad idea, for America and our environment.
The ethanol lobby told Congress that subsidizing 8 billion gallons of ethanol “would replace 2 billion barrels of imported crude oil.” Actually, it would take 156 […]
Center for Consumer Freedom: Food Industry Fights Back On Obesity Claims
Wednesday, July 6th, 2005Nonprofit coalition advocates personal responsibility, not more regulation
MSNBC
By Kevin Corke
NBC News Correspondent
ORLANDO, Fla. - High-protein or low-carb? Non-fat or low-fat? The information on diets is confusing, even as the warnings about obesity grow louder.
“There is clearly an (obesity) epidemic,” says Michael Jacobsen, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
“If obesity is […]
Conservation Tillage
Friday, July 1st, 2005The Center for Global Food Issues, Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug, Greenpeace Founder Dr. Patrick Moore and Syngenta Crop Protection were recently featured on WJMK TV’s American Environmental Review series hosted by 60 Minutes’ Morley Safer.
This nationally syndicated program is […]
Will The Sugar Program Displace Masses of American Farmers?
Thursday, June 30th, 2005Dennis Avery
America’s sugar farmers are trying to block the new Central American Free Trade Agreement because it would allow a tiny increase in U.S. imports of low-cost cane sugar.
If the tiny minority of sugar farmers prevents farm trade liberalization, however, their greed will destroy the future prosperity for hundreds of thousands of American family […]
Bingaman’s Climate Bill Hurts The Economy And Amounts To A “Hidden Tax” On Consumers
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005Dennis Avery
Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico is pushing a climate change bill which is being touted as a market-driven way to address the risk of global warming.
In fact, however, it will impose costs and achieve virtually nothing. If “truth in advertising” regulations applied to legislative proposals, Bingaman, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Energy […]