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For the Indiana State Representative, see Dennis Avery (Indiana politician)
| Dennis Avery | |
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| Born | (1936-10-24) October 24, 1936 (age 88) |
| Occupation | Food policy analyst |
| Known for | Support of biotechnology in farming |
Dennis T. Avery (born 24 October 1936) is the director of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute, where he edits Global Food Quarterly.
A food policy analyst for the past 30 years, Dennis Avery began his career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, served on the staff of President Lyndon Johnson’s National Advisory Commission of Food and Fiber, and, prior to joining Hudson, was the senior agricultural analyst for the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times Bestseller Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years which he co-authored with Dr. S. Fred Singer of George Mason University in Virginia.
Avery is an outspoken supporter of biotechnology, pesticides, irradiation, industrial farming, and free trade, as well as a long-time critic of organic farming and farm subsidies. He does not believe that DDT causes egg shell thinning in eagles. Hudson Institute's financial backers include major agricultural companies (e.g. ConAgra, Cargill) and pesticide manufacturers (e.g. Monsanto Company, DuPont, Dow-Elanco, Sandoz, Ciba-Geigy.
Dennis Avery is the father of Alex Avery, who also works for the Hudson Institute.
Organic food and E.coli
He has said that fumonisin, a natural fungal toxin that grows on organic corn, is far more dangerous to health than pesticides, and thus organic corn significantly more dangerous than the trace amounts of pesticides found on non-organic corn
Climate change
Avery believes that the global warming is part of a natural cycle and therefore unstoppable. Avery has also predicted that the next 20 to 30 years will bring cooling temperatures.
Bibliography
- Global Food Progress 1991 (1991)
- Saving the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental Triumph of High-Yield Farming (August 2000)
- Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years (February 2007)
External links
References
- "Dennis T. Avery". Hudson Institute. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
- Researchers Closer to Solving Disappearing Bee Mystery, Heartland Institute, March 1, 2008.
- Greenpeace: A Long History of Poor Judgment, Dennis Avery, Heartland Institute, March 1, 2008
- John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Trust Us, We’re Experts - How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future (New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001). ISBN 1-58542-139-1.
- http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/article.php3?id=103
- Dennis Avery & Fred Singer. "The Physical Evidence of Earth's Unstoppable 1,500-Year Climate Cycle". Retrieved 2009-01-16.
- CNN. "CNN;LOU DOBBS TONIGHT;aired Jan 13 2009". Retrieved 2009-01-16.
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