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By cgfi on October 25th, 2007

Biotech Deaths May Already Total Millions

By:  Dennis T. Avery and Alex A. Avery
 
CHURCHVILLE, VA—The global conflict over high-yield farming became even uglier last week when armed activists “for the landless” invaded a Brazilian biotech research farm. One activist and a security guard were killed and eight other people injured.
Unfortunately, the clash over modern farming technology has already had victims by [...]

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By cgfi on October 19th, 2007

Antarctic frost protection for wheat?

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Philip Hopkins
October 19, 2007
A group of farmers is, according to this story, seeking to develop frost-resistant, genetically modified wheat using a gene from Antarctica. The Molecular Plant Breeding Co-operative Research Centre will conduct the research for the farmers, who have formed a company, Green Blueprint International. GBI has lodged a prospectus to raise $2 [...]

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By cgfi on October 19th, 2007

Biotechnology Needed to Help Meet Growing Global Needs for Food, Feed, Fuel and Materials, DuPont Chairman & CEO Says at World Food Prize

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October 19, 2007
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — DuPont Chairman and CEO Charles O. Holliday, Jr., today told participants at the World Food Prize that biotechnology will enable the world to keep pace with the rapid growth in global demand for food, feed, fuel and materials.
“Biotechnology is the most powerful tool available [...]

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By cgfi on October 17th, 2007

Plants work as assembly lines to fight cancer

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By Fabienne Heimgartner
October 16, 2007
Almost everyone has heard of, or experienced, the side effects of cancer chemotherapy. Now a laboratory at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia has described a plant- derived protein, which could soon be used as an anti- cancer vaccine, thus reducing the number of people who would need chemotherapy.
Scientists in the [...]

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By cgfi on October 15th, 2007

Diminishing the Nobel Peace Prize

By: Dennis T. Avery
In 1964, Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading the non-violent crusade against racism and slavery—bettering not only America but the entire world.
In 1971, Willi Brandt won the Peace Prize for leading Germany’s peaceful reintegration back into the “world family of nations,” healing the destruction caused by Kaiser Wilhelm [...]

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By cgfi on October 12th, 2007

How to Fight Childhood Blindness

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By Patrick Moore
October 12, 2007
By embracing genetically modified ‘golden rice,’ says Greenpeace co-founder PATRICK MOORE, the world can help millions of people in developing countries.
It’s been seven years since a Swiss research team demonstrated that genetically enhanced “golden rice” could help prevent vitamin A deficiency (VAD), which is responsible for roughly half a million [...]

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By cgfi on October 08th, 2007

Organic Farming Can’t Event Feed Bangladesh

By:  Dennis T. Avery
 
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Organic farming could feed the world’s current population, and even a larger one based on organic crop yields reported from the Third World, say Catherine Badgley and a group of co-authors at the University of Michigan.
Evidence coming from around the world, however, indicates that the Badgley paper is wrong.  For example, [...]

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By cgfi on October 04th, 2007

“COOLING THE PANIC OVER WARMING”

WHEN: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2007
6:30 PM—COCKTAIL RECEPTION WITH OUR SPECIAL GUESTS
7:30 PM—DINNER AND SPEAKERSWHERE: DOUBLETREE PARK PLACE HOTEL, 1500 PARK PLACE BLVD., MINNEAPOLIS, MN
COST: $60 PER PERSON FOR DINNER AND SPEAKERS, [...]

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By cgfi on October 04th, 2007

The List: Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares

CITATION OF THE WORK OF THE FOLLOWING SCIENTISTS DOES NOT IMPLY THAT THEY NECESSARILY SUPPORT OUR CONCLUSIONS
The following list includes more than 450 qualified researchers, their home institutions, and the peer-reviewed studies they have published in professional journals providing historic and/or physical proxy evidence that:
1) Most of the recent global warming has been caused by [...]

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By cgfi on October 01st, 2007

Global Warming and the Chesapeake Bay

By. Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—I was invited to testify before the Senate environment committee Sept. 26, on “The Impact of Global Warming on the Chesapeake Bay.”  I told the committee there was no man-made global warming impact on the Bay. The Bay has been warmer than now several times because the moderate 1,500-year climate cycles [...]

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