Dennis Avery
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Dennis Avery is the director of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute, where he edits Global Food Quarterly. Avery crusades against organic agriculture claiming that modern industrial agriculture and biotechnology will save the world from starvation and disaster. Avery also disputes the scientific consensus on global warming (http://www.cgfi.org/materials/articles/2005/mar_15_05.htm).
He is the originator of a misleading claim that organic foods are more dangerous than foods sprayed with chemical pesticides.
Avery served as a senior agricultural analyst for the US Department of State for between 1980 and 1988 under the Reagan administration, "where he was responsible for assessing the foreign-policy implications of food and farming developments worldwide". [1] (http://www.cgfi.org/about/davery_bio.htm)
"As a staff member of the President's National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber, he wrote the Commission's landmark report, "Food and Fiber for the Future," his biographical note states.
"Avery studied agricultural economics at Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin ... At Hudson, Avery continues to monitor developments in world food production, farm product demand, the safety and security of food supplies, and the sustainability of world agriculture," his biographical note states.
He enjoys a high level of influence among some sectors, and his big-business-friendly articles are disseminated to thousands of newspapers as well as subscribers in governments, banks and businesses.
Avery writes a weekly column for The BridgeNews Forum.
According to his biographical note "Avery travels the world as a speaker, has testified before Congress, and has appeared on most of the nation's major television networks, including a program discussing the bacterial dangers of organic foods on ABC's 20/20".
Avery is also a member of the scientific policy advsiory panel for the corporate-funded American Council on Science and Health. [2] (http://www.acsh.org/about/advisors.html)
Books and articles
- Global Food Progress, Hudson Institute, 1991.
- Saving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental Triumph of High-Yield Farming, Hudson Institute, 1995. (A second edition was published in 2000).
- A listof articles by Dennis Avery is available at http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=AverDenn
External links
- Center for Global Food Issues, "Dennis Avery (http://www.cgfi.org/about/davery_bio.htm)", accessed January 2004.
- GM Watch, "Dennis Avery: big daddy of E.co-lie (http://www.gmwatch.org/p2temp2.asp?aid=48&page=1&op=1)", accessed January 2004.
- Karen Charman, "Force Feeding Genetically Engineered Foods (http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1999Q4/forcing.html), PR Watch, Fourth Quarter 1999.
- Karen Charman, Saving the Planet with Pestilent Statistics (http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1999Q4/avery.html), PR Watch, Fourth Quarter 1999.
- J. Robert Hatherill, Ph.D, and Jeff Nelson, "Organics: The Blurred Vision of ABC's 20/20 (http://www.vegsource.com/articles/organics.2020.htm)".
- American Council on Science and Health, Board of Scientific and policy advisors (http://www.acsh.org/about/advisors.html)", accessed January 2004.
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