CHURCHVILLE, VA—Prince Charles of England has come out again against the genetically modified foods that are a key hope for producing the extra food needed by our richer, more populous world in the decades just ahead. He must know that, thanks to science, world grain production tripled during his lifetime, from about 700 million tons [...]
By:Â Dennis T. Avery and Alex A. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—It’s time to quit playing the “organic and free-range†poultry game. Organic and free range birds carry higher bacterial risks—and now we know they could spread a deadly human flu pandemic.
British authorities have just confirmed a new outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain of “bird flu†at [...]
By:Â Dennis T. Avery and Alex A. Avery
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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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A devastating and detailed review of four highly publicized case studies showing the deep anti-pesticide bias [...]
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 30-40 years, primarily as a result of economic growth in Asia, but also in Eastern Europe [...]
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 farm trade than they did from continued heavy government subsidies.
The Bullish Demand Forecast for Farm Products and Pork
My [...]
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Page 12 of this Lexington Institute publication features “Bogus Health [...]
Originally Published in the New York Post, June 2001
June 2, 2001 — IF you buy organic food because you think it’s free of the cancer-causing pesticides used on other farms, think again. “Organic” farmers routinely spray their crops with naturally occurring pesticides – and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified pyrethrum, a top organic [...]
Alex A. Avery
The Rev. Thomas Malthus’ famous question about whether humanity can continue to feed all the people was posed exactly 200 years ago.
It has taken us nearly all of that 200 years to be sure of an affirmative answer. Only recently have we been certain that the opening of the 21st century should see [...]
Alex A. Avery
The Rev. Thomas Malthus’ famous question about whether humanity can continue to feed all the people was posed exactly 200 years ago.
It has taken us nearly all of that 200 years to be sure of an affirmative answer. Only recently have we been certain that the opening of the 21st century should see [...]
