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Tag Archives: organic
WHEN ANTI-TECHNOLOGY KILLS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
This week’s headlines: Another huge, awful outbreak of food-borne bacteria. This time the worst, so far, in modern history; perhaps 2000 sickened, and about 20 dead. At least 500 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome.. That means liver damage—and potential death … Continue reading
TOXINS MOVE UP ON WORRY LIST, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
Forty thousand researchers and clinicians have just written to the journal Science —through their professional societies—asking for broader and quicker testing of “new chemicals in our environment.” Eight societies, including the geneticists, endocrinologists, developmental biologists and others say that 12,000 … Continue reading
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Tagged dennis avery, dennis t. avery, organic, organic foods, toxins
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UN MILLENNIUM GOALS FLUNK REALITY CHECK, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
On the10th birthday of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, officials are lamenting that the world has made little progress in meeting them. No one should be surprised.
Goal # 1 is to cut greenhouse emissions by 50 percent. The UN says this clearly within reach if there’s the “political will.” “Economic death-wish” would be a better term. The UN wants us to give up 85 percent of our energy system, and use expensive, erratic solar and wind that would do little to reduce greenhouse emissions. Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Avery, CGFI, crops, energy, farming, la nina, organic, power, solar, UN, united nations, wind power
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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.” Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, biochemistry, cancer report, CGFI, chemo-phobia, europe, health, obama, organic, pesticide, pesticides, president
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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. Continue reading
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Tagged Avery, bloomberg, CGFI, farm, farmers, farming, fertilizer, Food, food safety, herbicide, intelligence squared, new york, no-till, nutrition, organic, pesticide, soil, till
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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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Tagged CGFI, climate, cordillera, environment, environmental, erosion, farm, farmers, farming, Global Warming, herbicide, manila, organic, philippines, soil, till, vegetable
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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 fertilizerâ€â€”straight talk from billionaire Bill Gates at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines October 15th   Gates could have … Continue reading
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Tagged Avery, bill gates, CGFI, des moines, environment, environmentalist, farm, farming, Global Warming, organic, wildlife, world food
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Avery, CGFI, Food, food supply, Global Warming, Green Revolution, Hunger, organic, wildlife
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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.â€Â He said a cow … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Avery, CGFI, cow, farm, farming, fertilizer, Food, Global Warming, Hunger, manure, organic
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