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The Nine Most Dangerous Myths About Pesticides and High-Yield Farming

Presentation in New Delhi, India for a Seminar on Pesticides: Myths, Realities, and Remedies Dennis Avery It is a tremendous privilege to be in India, a key site of the Green Revolution, to discuss pesticides, the modern miracle of high-yield … Continue reading

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Sudden, Sharp Improvement in World Meat Export Prospects?

Presentation to the Brazilian Meat Conference hosted by Elanco Animal Health Dennis Avery I am pleased to be here today and to able to talk about the sharp improvement in world meat export prospects that appears to be occurring in … Continue reading

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The Power and Promise of Agricultural Biotechnology

Presentation to Hanover College Alex Avery The name of my presentation reflects my fundamentalist rejection of the term genetically altered food. It’s an anti-biotech activist term deliberately designed to elicit distaste and turn off consumers. But more fundamentally, it is … Continue reading

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The Meat Industry and the Consumer Confidence Challenge

Presentation to the American Meat Institute: The Meat Industry and the Consumer Confidence Challenge Dennis AveryIt’s happened again. The food industry has once again allowed activists and headline-hungry journalists to turn the safest food system in human history into a … Continue reading

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How Should the Feed Industry View the Consumer Confidence Challenge?

Dennis Avery It’s happened again. The food industry has once again allowed activists and headline-hungry journalists to turn the safest food system in human history into a house of horrors. Once again, there has been no effective answer or strategy … Continue reading

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Is High-Yield Farming Worth Saving?

Presentation to the Illinois Farm Bureau Commodity Conference: Is High-Yield Farming Worth Saving? Dennis Avery . . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out wild beasts. . . and there are such great cities where … Continue reading

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Comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, On the Proposed Five-year Strategic Plan for the FSA

Comments to the USDA’s Farm Service Agency, On the Proposed Five-Year Strategic Plan for the FSA Dennis Avery and Dr. Thomas Elam Submitted February 10, 2004, in connection with the meeting of the agency’s external stakeholders at the Wyndham Hotel, … Continue reading

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Presentation to the National Turkey Federation: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century

Presentation to the National Turkey Federation: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century Dennis Avery . . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out wild beasts. . . and there are such great cities where … Continue reading

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Who Will Produce the World’s Food (and Pork) in the Next Decade?

Presented at the Hyologisk 25th Anniversary Conference Braedstrup, Denmark Alex Avery February 4, 2004 A dozen years ago, I retired from the U.S. State Department-and began a mission to convince First World farmers they had more to gain from free … Continue reading

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21st Century Consumer War: Mythical Organic Utopia versus High Yield Conservation

Alex Avery Presented December 11, 2003 National Agricultural Aviators Association Reno, Nevada For two decades, an epic war has engulfed society between those who look backward toward a fictional natural past – an organic utopia – and those who look … Continue reading

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