Alex Avery

Alex Avery is the former director of research and education with the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute,^[1]^[2] where he conducted research on the environmental impacts of different farming systems. He is the author of The Truth About Organic Foods,^[3] a controversial^[4] book critical of the organic food movement's attacks on agricultural biotechnology — technology which, Avery says, "offers a more cost-effective way to achieve lower pesticide use and more eco-friendly farming systems..."^[5] The book is published by Henderson Communications, a small agribusiness consulting group and independent agricultural-oriented publisher.

The New York Times has written that Avery's non-profit employer as of 2003, the Hudson Institute, has received funding from Monsanto Company, DowElanco and the Ag-Chem Equipment Company.^[6]

Avery has appeared on or been quoted in TV and newspapers. Avery has written a chapter for a book on organic pesticides published in 2007 by the American Chemical Society. Avery is the son of food policy analyst Dennis Avery.

Notes

^ "Alex Avery". Center for global food issues. Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Retrieved 9 December 2007.
^ Avery, Alex. "Frog-pocalypse Not: Amphibians And Atrazine". Retrieved 12 September 2021.
^ "Die Wahrheit uber Bio-Lebensmittel" (in German). TVR Group. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2007.
^ McHughen, Alan (May 5, 2007). "Toppling the organic house of cards". Nature Biotechnology. 25 (5): 522–523. doi:10.1038/nbt0507-522. S2CID 38555109.
^ "Die Wahrheit uber Bio-Lebensmittel" (in German). TVR Group. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2007.
^ Marian Burros (July 16, 2003). "Eating Well: Is Organic Food Provably Better?". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 December 2007.