Background
Avery, Dennis Teel was born on October 24, 1936 in Lansing, Michigan, United States. Son of Milbourne Henry and Alice Nedra (Teel) Avery.
(A former agricultural specialist for the federal governme...)
A former agricultural specialist for the federal government, Avery argues that high-yield agriculture using chemical pesticides, fertilizers, and biotechnology is the solution to environmental problems not a cause of them, as environmental activists have found. Using high-yield methods for farming,
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Avery, Dennis Teel was born on October 24, 1936 in Lansing, Michigan, United States. Son of Milbourne Henry and Alice Nedra (Teel) Avery.
Bachelor, Michigan State University, 1957; Master of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1959.
A food policy analyst for the past 30 years, Dennis Avery began his career with the United States. 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 United States. Department of State. He was the author of several books, including the New York Times Bestseller Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years which he co-authored with Doctor South. Fred Singer of George Mason University in Virginia. Avery was 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 did not believe that DDT causes egg shell thinning in eagles.
Hudson Institute"s financial backers include major agricultural companies (eg 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. According to critics he was the source of a claim that organic food is more dangerous to eat than food produced using chemical pesticides because of usage of animal manure in organic farming.
Specifically, in a 1998 article for the Wall Street Journal, he claimed the Centers for Disease Control (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) had conducted studies showing that eating an organic diet carried an 8-times the risk of East. coli infection than eating a conventional diet.
Despite the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had never conducted any such testing, the Avery article was widely quoted. The New York Times wrote about him: " Avery wants organic food to go away. And he doesn"t care what it takes." Avery believed that the global warming is part of a natural cycle and therefore unstoppable.
Avery had also predicted that the next 20 to 30 years will bring cooling temperatures.
(A former agricultural specialist for the federal governme...)
Member American Association Agriculture Economic Associations, American Council Science and Health (advisory).
Married Sharon Roslund, Feb.12, 1959 (divorced 1979). Married Anne Kroll Kelly, July 11, 1982.