Alex Avery (writer)

{{Short description|American author and researcher}}

{{For|the English actor|Alex Avery (actor)}}

Alex Avery is the former 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 |access-date=9 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014192920/http://cgfi.org/about/aavery_bio.htm |archive-date=14 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last1=Avery |first1=Alex |title=Frog-pocalypse Not: Amphibians And Atrazine |url=https://www.hudson.org/research/11121-frog-pocalypse-not-amphibians-and-atrazine |access-date=12 September 2021}} where he conducted research on the environmental impacts of different farming systems. He is the author of The Truth About Organic Foods,{{ cite web | url =http://www.tvrgroup.de/| publisher= TVR Group| title = Die Wahrheit uber Bio-Lebensmittel| language = German| access-date = 19 December 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071225022842/http://www.tvrgroup.de/| archive-date= 25 December 2007 | url-status= live}} a controversial{{cite journal|last=McHughen|first=Alan|date=May 5, 2007|title=Toppling the organic house of cards |journal=Nature Biotechnology|volume=25|issue=5|pages=522–523|doi=10.1038/nbt0507-522|s2cid=38555109}} 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..."{{ cite web | url =http://www.tvrgroup.de/| publisher= TVR Group| title = Die Wahrheit uber Bio-Lebensmittel| language = German| access-date = 19 December 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071225022842/http://www.tvrgroup.de/| archive-date= 25 December 2007 | url-status= live}} 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.{{ cite web | url =https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6DA143CF935A25754C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon= |title=Eating Well: Is Organic Food Provably Better? | work = The New York Times | author=Marian Burros|date=July 16, 2003|accessdate = 27 December 2007 }}

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.