Alex Avery (researcher)

Alex Avery is the director of research and education with the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute, [ cite web | url =http://www.cgfi.org/about/aavery_bio.htm| publisher= Center for global food issues | title = Alex Avery | language = English | accessdate = 9 December | accessyear = 2007 ] where he conducts research on the environmental impacts of different farming systems. Alex is an outspoken critic of organic food and farming and has compared their supporters to Hisbollah [ cite web | url =http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-avery073103.asp | publisher= "National Review" | title = Kill thy neighbor | accessdate = 28 December | accessyear = 2007 ] . He is also the author of the book "The Truth About Organic Foods", [ cite web | url =http://www.thetruthaboutorganicfoods.org| publisher= Henderson| title = The Truth About Organic Foods| language = English | accessdate = 19 December | accessyear = 2007 ] [ cite web | url =http://www.tvrgroup.de/| publisher= TVR Group| title = Die Wahrheit uber Bio-Lebensmittel| language = German| accessdate = 19 December | accessyear = 2007 ] a book critical of organic food practices.

Avery believes that organic foods "are clearly no safer, no more nutritious, no more healthful -- there are zero advantages for consumers." cite web | url =http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6DA143CF935A25754C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |title=Eating Well: Is Organic Food Provably Better? | publisher = The New York Times | author=Marian Burros|date=July 16 2003|accessdate = 27 December | accessyear = 2007] He disputes the conclusions of studies that show organic food to be healthier, instead agreeing with the industry-funded [http://www.nutrition.org.uk/upload/BNF%20Annual%20Report0405(5).pdf] [cite journal|last=Cannon|first=Geoffrey|date=1986 January 25|title=Taking Money From the Devil|journal=British Medical Journal|volume=292|issue=6515|pages=270-271|url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1339233&pageindex=2#page] British Nutrition Foundation who says that there is no evidence organic foods are healthier or more nutritious. cite web | url =http://www.nutrition.org.uk/home.asp?siteId=43&sectionId=782&subSectionId=323&parentSection=299&which= |title=Organic foods | publisher = British Nutrition Foundation | |accessdate = 26 September | accessyear = 2008] "The New York Times" pointed out that Avery's own employer has received financing from Monsanto, DowElanco and the Ag-Chem Equipment Company.

He appeares on or is quoted in TV and newspapers such as CNN, Fox News, Showtime (Penn & Teller's show), the "New York Times", "Wall Street Journal", "USA Today"'. Avery has written a chapter for a book on organic pesticides published in 2007 by the American Chemical Society. Avery is also an Advisory Board Member for Hanover College's Center for Free Inquiry.

Publications

* "The Truth About Organic Foods", November, 2006
* "The Environmental Safety and Benefits of Growth Enhancing Pharmaceutical Technologies in Beef Production," "Center for Global Food Issues", November, 2007 [ cite web | url =http://www.cgfi.org/pdfs/nofollow/beef-eco-benefits-paper.pdf| publisher= Hudson Institute| title = The Environmental Safety and Benefits of Growth Enhancing Pharmaceutical Technologies in Beef Production| language = English | accessdate = 19 December | accessyear = 2007 ]
* "'Organic Abundance' report: fatally flawed," "Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems", December, 2007.
* "Food Wars," "National Review Online", January, 2007 [ cite web | url =http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmNlM2E2ZTExNWE4NDI0NjAzMGY3MTU1YjdiMTcwMTQ=| publisher= "National Review"| title = Food Wars| language = English | accessdate = 19 December | accessyear = 2007 ]
* "Organic farming caused dust bowl," "The Spokesman-Review.com", August 18, 2002.
* "Kill thy neighbor, Hezbollah and organic-food fanatics have some things in common," "National Review" [ cite web | url =http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-avery073103.asp | publisher= "National Review" | title = Kill thy neighbor | accessdate = 28 December | accessyear = 2007 ]
* "The Deadly Chemicals in Organic Food," "New York Post", June 2, 2001
* "Bring Back DDT, and Save Lives," "Wall Street Journal", July 28, 2000
* "Infantile Methemoglobinemia: Reexamining the Role of Drinking Water Nitrates," "Environmental Health Perspectives", July 1999
* "Red Meat Production Can Be Part of an Environmentally Sound Future," "Journal of the American Dietetic Association", November, 1997
* "Farming to Sustain the Environment", "Hudson Briefing Paper No. 190", Hudson, May 1996.

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