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By cgfi on May 10th, 2010

PRESIDENTIAL CHEMO-PHOBIA?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

“I believe it is time for a new human experiment. The old experiment is that we have sprayed pesticides which are inherent poisons . . . throughout our shared environment. They’re in our amniotic fluid . . . They’re in our mothers’ milk. What is the burden of cancer that we can attribute to these poisons in our agricultural system? We won’t really know the answer until we do the other experiment, which is to take the poisons out of our food chain, embrace a different kind of agriculture, and see what happens.”

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By cgfi on April 21st, 2010

LOSING THE ORGANIC DEBATE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Intelligence Squared, a philanthropic foundation, which brings Oxford-style debating to American issues, invited me to be part of a debate on whether the organic food movement is a scam. The invitation was a big deal, with the audio carried nationwide by National Public Radio and the TV shown repeatedly on Bloomberg TV.

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By cgfi on April 09th, 2010

NO-TILL FARMING: LANDSLIDE PROTECTION?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Vegetable growers in the Philippines are finding that no-till farming not only saves their topsoil but may even lessen the danger of landslides!

Four years of experiments in the Cordillera—the “salad bowl” of the Philippine highlands—show a 50–70 percent reduction in soil erosion because the farmers neither plow nor hand-weed. The region specializes in vegetables because its 6,000-foot elevation keeps the soil cooler and less humid than at sea level hear Manila. However, the steep slopes also mean high risks for both soil erosion and landslides.

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By cgfi on October 26th, 2009

BILL GATES BETS A BILLION ON AG RESEARCH, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—“Environmentalists are standing in the way of feeding humanity through their opposition to biotechnology, farm chemicals and nitrogen fertilizer”—straight talk from billionaire Bill Gates at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines October 15th  
 
Gates could have said with equal truth that the same environmentalists, by demanding organic-only farming, are risking the future [...]

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By cgfi on September 21st, 2009

BORLAUG: FEEDING THE HUNGRY, SAVING THE WILDLIFE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—It was 1950. World War II, with its 40 million deaths, was over. Doctors were conquering smallpox with vaccines, protecting millions from malaria and typhus with new pesticides, and treating infections with the miraculous new antibiotics.
 
Then we realized that humanity was still at massive risk—from hunger. With death rates falling radically, there was [...]

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By cgfi on September 02nd, 2009

THE FATAL ERROR IN ORGANIC: FERTILIZER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Rudolph Steiner, a founder of organic farming in the 1920s, started the “great organic nitrogen swindle” that threatens the world with hunger to this day. Steiner didn’t believe in nutrients, he believed in “vital forces.”  He said a cow has horns to send into itself “astral-ethereal formative powers.”  He claimed you could fertilize a [...]

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By cgfi on August 10th, 2009

ORGANIC FOOD: JUST A SUPERSTITION, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA-The Green Movement has been called “the new religion.” It surely isn’t that. Religion is a belief in a higher power than humanity. The Green movement believes nothing is more powerful than a press release from the Sierra Club or a lawsuit filed by Greenpeace.
 
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine recently [...]

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By cgfi on July 06th, 2009

HOW TO LIVE LONGER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—I learned last week how to live longer.
 
Four of us had wrangled through 90 minutes of public debate in New York City about food regulation. In a forum sponsored by the Smith Family Foundation, we were essentially arguing about organic versus conventional farming.  
 

Michael Hansen of Consumers Union continued his decades-long contention that farm [...]

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By cgfi on April 08th, 2009

CREATING THE GREAT AMERICAN POTATO FAMINE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—McDonald’s just agreed to pursue pesticide-free potatoes for its restaurants. The anti-technology zealots pushing this organic move had better hope the company drags its feet—or we risk having the first McDonald’s in history with no French fries. Less than a decade ago, the Danish government’s high-level Bichel technical committee concluded that an organic-only mandate [...]

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By cgfi on February 28th, 2008

IFIC video – “What’s for Lunch?

This short YouTube friendly video addresses consumer concerns about food choice from the International Food Information Council Foundation(IFIC). This humorous and entertaining look at how food is grown and produced is aimed at those who are uncertain about the differences between organic, biotechnology and conventional food production methods. Narrated by an improv comic, and featuring interviews [...]

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