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...
View ArticleBORLAUG: 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...
View ArticleBILL 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...
View ArticleNO-TILL FARMING: LANDSLIDE PROTECTION?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
CHURCHVILLE, VA—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...
View ArticleLOSING THE ORGANIC DEBATE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
Churchville, VA—I lost a debate on organic food last week—to the city of New York. Intelligence Squared, a philanthropic foundation, which brings Oxford-style debating to American issues, invited me to...
View ArticlePRESIDENTIAL CHEMO-PHOBIA?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
CHURCHVILLE, VA—The newly published President’s Cancer Report puts this quote in bold type: “I believe it is time for a new human experiment. The old experiment is that we have sprayed pesticides which...
View ArticleUN MILLENNIUM GOALS FLUNK REALITY CHECK, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
On the 10th 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...
View ArticleTOXINS 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.”...
View ArticleWHEN 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...
View ArticleLUCKY ACCIDENT SLASHES FOOD POISONINGS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
A new natural food additive, discovered in a laboratory accident, is now ready to slash by half the number of hospitalizations and deaths from food-borne bacterial poisoning across the Western World....
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