Dennis Avery

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. 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 agriculture analyst for the US Department of State for almost a decade under the Reagan administration, and is the author of Saving the World with Pesticides and Plastics. 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.

External links

• Force Feeding Genetically Engineered Foods and Saving the Planet with Pestilent Statistics, in the Fourth Quarter 1999 issue of PR Watch.