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Category Archives: Materials and Publications
Pesticide Activism: Fifty Years of Panic and Propaganda
This report details the long history of toxic journalism, the new and historical facts and science the media ignore in propping up “the grand narrative”[1], and why this problem is likely to get worse. That is why this issue needs to be addressed as society grapples with the growing human health and welfare challenges in a more crowded and resource-limited world of the 21st century. Continue reading
Posted in Latest News, Materials and Publications, Resources
Tagged atrazine, pesticides, Silent Spring
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Great Rivers White Paper
Download Report (PDF) The great river valleys have always been the key cradles of civilization, and the great river valleys may always be at the heart of human societies. The great river valleys had the world’s richest hunting grounds. They … Continue reading
Posted in CGFI Reports, Latest News, Materials and Publications
Tagged farming, great river report, herding, report
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Bjorn Lomborg Responds to Scientific American Critics
Download PDF As I write these words Scientific American has as yet not given me a chance to put my side of the argument before their readers. The four critiques and accompanying editorial will be the only statement that readers … Continue reading
Rachel Carson Syndrome: Jumping to Pesticide Conclusions in the Global Frog Crisis
Download PDF A devastating and detailed review of four highly publicized case studies showing the deep anti-pesticide bias of ecologists. The report asks why ecologists continually chase chemical phantoms despite the scientific evidence and when ecology will become a science … Continue reading
Posted in CGFI Reports, Materials and Publications
Tagged Alex Avery, anti-pesticide bias, hudson institute
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Response to PimentelResponse to Pimentel response which was not published in Science
Dr. David Pimentel’s response to our letter in Science(2005, vol. 307:1410-1411) misconstrues some of our points and is simply wrong in other areas. First, Pimentel incorrectly claims that we equated herbicide tolerant crops (HT) with no-till cultivation systems. We clearly … Continue reading
Posted in CGFI Reports, Materials and Publications
Tagged Gyphosate, herbicide tolerant crops, no-till, Pimentel
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Meeting The Needs Of A Hungrey World—What Role Does Biotechnology Play?
Alex Avery The short and the sweet of it is that the world is in the midst of the largest increase in global food demand in human history. At least a doubling of food demand will unfold in the next … Continue reading
Posted in Materials and Publications, Speeches
Tagged Alex Avery, biotechnology, CGFI, hungrey world
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Should Lincolnshire Be Farmed?
Dennis Avery The short answer to the title question is: Yes, Britain’s farmland—including Lincolnshire—should be farmed. Indeed, it must be farmed, to: Help save the world’s remaining wildlands and wild species, especially those in the tropics, from being plowed for … Continue reading
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Hogs and Water Quality: Review Fails to Find Any Hog Impact
Download PDF This extensive review of state-collected water quality data from North Carolina, conducted by Dr. Dwayne R. Edwards from the University of Kentucky, was sponsored by Frontline Farmers, Inc., a group of North Carolina hog farmers. We are honored … Continue reading
North Carolina Hog Farming & Water Quality: Time Series Analysis Fails to Reveal Significant Impacts
Download PDF The data discussed in this report indicate that nutrient levels in the Black and Northeast Cape Fear watersheds are elevated above levels expected prior to farming and livestock. However, these data also indicate that the impacts from intensive … Continue reading
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Tagged hog farming, north carolina, water quality
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Wages of Fear: The Costs to Society of Attacks on the Products of Human Ingenuity
Download PDF Page 12 of this Lexington Institute publication features “Bogus Health Scares & the Costs to Society: GM Foods,” by Alex Avery. It is especially relevant in the context of today’s growing famine situation in southern Africa.