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By Alex Avery on July 15th, 1999

Europe Engaged In A Phony War On Biotechnology

Dennis T. Avery
EU Selfishly Hides Behind Farm Trade Barriers While Attacking
Scientific Advances In The Fight Against Hunger
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Europe’s govern-ments, after frightening their own consumers about the safest food supply in world history, are now making a huge effort to share their food panic with the rest of the world.
They are doing this for shabby political [...]

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By Alex Avery on July 12th, 1999

Sour, Curdled, and Gross: How Congress got milk wrong

Dave Juday
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION by National Review
Of all the issues that Congress deals with, perhaps none is less glamourous to members than agriculture policy. As Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) noted last year, some of his colleagues “don’t even know we passed a farm bill in 1996.” But that bill – commonly referred to as the [...]

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By Alex Avery on July 01st, 1999

Scaring Consumers Away from Good Health

Alex A. Avery
The Environmental Protection Agency, in its zeal to rid the world of pesticides, fails to mention the hazards of dangerous strains of food-borne pathogens that may be present in organically grown “natural” foods.
Featured at your local supermarket are unwarranted fear, innuendo and bad advice from the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA has begun [...]

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By Alex Avery on June 25th, 1999

Bangladesh Still Floods, But No Longer Starves

Dennis T. Avery
Bangladesh Is Opening Its Doors To Industrialization And Beginning To Thrive
CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Bangladesh had the worst floods in its history last year. In other words, the country suffered its worst flooding since Noah stepped off the Ark.
Bangladesh is one of the most flood-prone countries in the world. Essentially, it’s the flood plain where two [...]

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By Alex Avery on June 24th, 1999

Dispel myths about the danger of nitrates

Alex A. Avery
This spring, the Register printed an editorial warning of the dangers to “infants and pregnant women” of nitrates in Des Moines’ drinking water and calling for more responsible farming to stop “the problem at the source.” While the goal of limiting nitrogen losses from farmland is sound, the editorial missed the boat on [...]

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By Alex Avery on June 21st, 1999

Who’ll Stop The Rain?

Richard A. Halpern
Early next year, the President must submit to Congress a plan to mitigate environmental damages in the Gulf of Mexico that no one can find, and to restore economic losses to Gulf fisheries that no one has suffered. The president’s charge, under the 1998 Coast Guard Authorization Act, is to clean up [...]

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By Alex Avery on February 27th, 1999

Wallace Institute Got it Wrong

Center for Global Food Issues
CDC Data DOES Indicate Higher Risk from Organic and Natural Foods
On February 3rd, 1999, the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture issued a press release (“Contrary to Avery Article, CDC Has Never Conducted Study on Risk of Organic Food”) implying that Hudson Senior Fellow Dennis Avery had made a gross [...]

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By Alex Avery on February 01st, 1999

Behind the Hog Crisis: Did environmentalists cause record low prices?

Dave Juday
Few would disagree the U.S. pork industry is in dire straits, with today’s hog prices not high enough to even cover the corn fed from farrowing to finish! The cause of the record low live hog prices is not as universally agreed upon. Certainly, economic problems play a role on the demand side: The [...]

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By Alex Avery on December 27th, 1998

Sierra Club Speaks Out, Supports GMOs, High-Yield Crops

Sierra Club Exec Endorses High-Yield Agriculture and Biotech Corp Carl Pope credits
Hudson Institute Fellow Dennis Avery’s agricultural and environmental research.
WASHINGTON — Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, has endorsed high-yield agriculture, including bio-engineered crops, because high farm yields will help save wildlife habitat and wild species. Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues [...]

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By Alex Avery on June 28th, 1998

Pfiesteria Hysteria

Dave Juday
Last summer, pfiesteria, a mysterious toxic algae bloom, killed about 3,000 fish in two tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay and apparently made about 30 people ill. Like the Cuyahoga River’s catching fire in the 1970’s, this local event created a national state of panic about water quality. Environmental groups responded with overheated rhetoric, and [...]

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