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Dennis T. Avery (October 24, 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher= Hudson Institute )〕 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 Dr. S. 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.〔(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〕 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.〔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.〕 Dennis Avery is the father of Alex Avery, who also works for the Hudson Institute. ==Organic food and E.coli== 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Food wars )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher= PR watch )〕 Specifically, in a 1998 article for the Wall Street Journal, he claimed the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had conducted studies showing that eating an organic diet carried an 8-times the risk of E. coli infection than eating a conventional diet. Despite the fact that the CDC had never conducted any such testing, the Avery article was widely quoted. ''The New York Times'' wrote about him: "Dennis T. Avery wants organic food to go away. And he doesn't care what it takes." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dennis T. Avery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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