Yearly Archives: 2005

Dennis Avery Environmental activists claim that synthetic fertilizer from farms is threatening the marine life in the Gulf of Mexico by causing the rampant spread of a “dead zone” of low-oxygen water. New research, however, shows that the Gulf of … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery, et al. These letters appeared in Science, Vol 307, Issue 5714, 1410-1411, March 2005 In his review of Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist’s View of Genetically Modified Foods by N. Fedoroff and N. M. Brown (“Changing genes … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery The Environmental Protection Agency is launching a new assault on the aerial emissions of confinement hog and poultry farms. In a Kafka-like scenario, EPA’s enforcement staff brags that it has agreed not to charge the confinement hog and … Continue reading →

Paul Driessen and Cyril Boynes, Jr. What Thoughless Activists Want To Do With Biotechnology Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Ruth Oniango has a dream. A member of Kenya’s parliament, she envisions a day when the people of her poor … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute says world famine is becoming more likely as global warming continues. Brown, winner of the MacArthur “genius award,” says hotter temperatures will fry the crops and evaporate the soil moisture needed … Continue reading →

Dr. Thomas E. Elam [1] If you ever doubted how important trade is just pause a minute, look around slowly wherever you are at this moment, and ask two simple questions: How much of this stuff here did I make … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery This month, with Russia’s ratification, the Kyoto Global warming treaty is at long last going into effect. European nations are preparing to meet their greenhouse reduction targets under the treaty. Is it time for Americans to rethink the … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Pulitzer-winning author Jared Diamond says Dutch society will succeed in the years ahead, but America may fail. Diamond sees America’s will to succeed being sapped by such eco-problems as overpopulation and pollution. Diamond’s new book, “Collapse: How Societies … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery It’s almost eerie. Just before that earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the Indian Ocean in December, best-selling novelist Michael Crichton released his new docu-novel, “State of Fear.” In it, environmental activists try to ramp up public fears of global warming—by … Continue reading →