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By cgfi on October 05th, 2009

DROUGHT: THE REAL AND UNSTOPPABLE DANGER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—By 2050, 25 million more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis, says the highly respected International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. IFPRI, however, incorrectly links the prediction and the solutions, to man-made global warming. The food challenge will occur whether the warming is man-made or part of [...]

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By cgfi on September 28th, 2009

SCIENCE TO SAVE THE CHESAPEAKE BAY, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA: The Chesapeake Bay is in eco-collapse. The once-clear waters are clouded with sediment, so the eel-grass cannot grow across the bottom for baby crabs to hide in. The oysters, which once filtered every bit of the bay’s water twice daily, have mostly succumbed to such viral diseases as MSX and Dermo.
 
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By cgfi on September 21st, 2009

BORLAUG: FEEDING THE HUNGRY, SAVING THE WILDLIFE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—It was 1950. World War II, with its 40 million deaths, was over. Doctors were conquering smallpox with vaccines, protecting millions from malaria and typhus with new pesticides, and treating infections with the miraculous new antibiotics.
 
Then we realized that humanity was still at massive risk—from hunger. With death rates falling radically, there was [...]

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By cgfi on September 14th, 2009

OHIO OFFERS NEW APPROACH TO ANIMAL RIGHTS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Meat production has always been somewhat awkward, both for the farmer and the consumer as it always involves the death of the meat animals. Milk and eggs have meant “protective custody” for the dairy cows and laying hens.
 
As a farm kid, I learned early that the cute little piglets of the spring would [...]

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By cgfi on September 08th, 2009

SAVING TREES WITH KEROSENE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

If a traveler on Continental Airlines pays an optional $5 surcharge to plant a tree as a “carbon offset” how much difference will it make to the planet? Traveling Americans are paying millions of dollars to plant hundreds of thousands of additional trees. Many of these new trees are being planted in the tropics; where [...]

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By cgfi on September 02nd, 2009

THE FATAL ERROR IN ORGANIC: FERTILIZER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Rudolph Steiner, a founder of organic farming in the 1920s, started the “great organic nitrogen swindle” that threatens the world with hunger to this day. Steiner didn’t believe in nutrients, he believed in “vital forces.”  He said a cow has horns to send into itself “astral-ethereal formative powers.”  He claimed you could fertilize a [...]

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By cgfi on August 25th, 2009

BRITAIN DONATING MILLIONS FOR BIOTECH CROPS (but not in Britain), BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Britain has pledged more than US$150 million over the next five years to support high-tech food crops for the world’s poorest countries—primarily through genetic engineering.
 
The irony?  Britain does not yet allow any biotech foods to be grown commercially within its borders. Not even to develop a genetically modified potato that is resistant to [...]

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By cgfi on August 17th, 2009

TRYING TO REPLAY THE 1980’S SALMON CRISIS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—British Columbia’s Fraser River is suffering a salmon collapse, says Canada’s Globe and Mail. “It’s beyond a crisis!” warns a fishing advisor to the Fraser’s Indian tribes. The Watershed Watch Salmon Society says the Fraser should have had 10–13 million spawning sockeye salmon this season—but has gotten less than 2 million. Canada’s government has [...]

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By cgfi on August 10th, 2009

GIVING UP MEAT TO SAVE THE PLANET?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

One of the persistent, shallow global food myths is that the world could feed more people if we gave up eating meat. Ezra Klein wrote another misguided column about this—“The Meat of the Problem”—in the Washington Post of July 29. Klein cites as his authority a naïve “study” by the kids at Carnegie-Mellon University.
 
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By cgfi on August 10th, 2009

ORGANIC FOOD: JUST A SUPERSTITION, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA-The Green Movement has been called “the new religion.” It surely isn’t that. Religion is a belief in a higher power than humanity. The Green movement believes nothing is more powerful than a press release from the Sierra Club or a lawsuit filed by Greenpeace.
 
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine recently [...]

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