Tag Archives: Alex Avery

Tyrone Hayes—A Frog in His Throat

Dr. Tyrone Hayes of UC Berkeley—in his personal quest to demonize the herbicide atrazine just as a previous generation successfully demonized Alar—gave an encore performance before the EPA’s fourth Scientific Advisory Panel on this subject on Wednesday. Continue reading

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PRINCE CHARLES PROMOTES WORLD HUNGER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY AND ALEX AVERY

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, … Continue reading

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Avian Flu is Coming: Hide the Chickens Indoors

By:  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. … Continue reading

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Biotech Deaths May Already Total Millions

By:  Dennis T. Avery and Alex A. Avery   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 … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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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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.

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The Deadly Chemicals in Organic Food

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 … Continue reading

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The World Really Needs High-Yield Ag: It Just Doesn’t Know it Yet!

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 … Continue reading

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