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2. Agribusiness's secretive plans to unravel food safety and worker protections
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Treat, Sharon Anglin (author)
- Format:
- Report summary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02-19
- Published:
- International: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10565
- Notes:
- 4 pages., via website, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., As Congress and the public debate the pros and cons of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), or New NAFTA, behind the scenes and in the shadows transnational corporations are doubling down on their plans to weaken and eliminate public protections through a related entity, the secretive Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC). This littleknown council has the mission of promoting trade by “reducing, eliminating or preventing unnecessary regulatory differences” between Canada and the United States. Since the RCC’s inception, agribusiness—including factory-farmed livestock producers, the feed industry, and chemical and pesticide manufacturers and linked transportation businesses—has had a seat at the regulatory cooperation table. Their focus, without exception, has been advocating the scaling back and even elimination of important safety protections in both countries. In the U.S., recommendations made by the RCC feed directly into regulations enacted (or eliminated) by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency, among others
3. Bad news: seeing communication for and about development through an expose of Swedish aid to Zambia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Enghel, Florencia (author) and Danielsson, Magnus (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D11618
- Journal Title:
- Journal of International Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(2) : 254-274
- Notes:
- 23 pages., Online via open access., How is bilateral development cooperation communicated about in the news? How does a donor agency communicate for and about development? And what are the links between one and the other? This article focuses on a 2016 expose reported on Swedish public television about alleged corruption in aid to Zambia, reflecting failure of both donor and recipient. Authors focus on the news media as mediator of the donor's communication with its tax-paying audiences and demonstrated potentials of an integrated conceptual approach to communication for and about development. Findings reveal greater media coverage of financial accountability than on doing good for Zambian citizens.
4. Burger King tells a whopper!
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Editorial
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11911
- Journal Title:
- Drovers
- Notes:
- Online from publication. 3 pages., Editorial highlights the inaccuracies in a Burger King television advertisement that repeats misleading claims and data about the role of beef and dairy production in greenhouse gas emissions that harm climate.
5. Cattle groups differ on labeling
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- News article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10-23
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D10998
- Journal Title:
- Drovers
- Notes:
- Online via Drovers News Source. 3 pages., Announces a petition from the United States Cattlemen's Association to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service to address "Product of the U.S.A. and "Made in the U.S.A. claims on U.S beef. Includes a link to full petition (199 pages). The petition ends: "To eliminate the likelihood of confusion and to better inform consumers, USDA contends that voluntary labels indication 'Made in USA' and 'Product of USA' or similar content should be limited to beef from cattle born, raise, and harvested in the United States."
6. Cattlemen's best tool
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Editorial
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12-24
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11182
- Journal Title:
- Drovers
- Journal Title Details:
- : 4
- Notes:
- Via online November-December issue. "The Front Gate" section., Cites a new information campaign of the Beef Quality Assurance program as an effective way to counter much of the misinformation about new plant-based and cell-cultured products that challenge the stewardship of the cattle industry.
7. How will we eat and produce in the cities of the future? From edible insects to vertical farming - a study on the perception and acceptability of new approaches
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Specht, Kathrin (author), Zoll, Felix (author), Schumann, Henrike (author), Bela, Julia (author), Kachel, Julia (author), and Robischon, Marcel (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 99 Document Number: D10870
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(16)
- Notes:
- Via online. 27 pages., Global challenges such as climate change, increasing urbanization and a lack of transparency of food chains, have led to the development of innovative urban food production approaches, such as rooftop greenhouses, vertical farms, indoor farms, aquaponics as well as production sites for edible insects or micro-algae. Those approaches are still at an early stage of development and partly unknown among the public. The aim of our study was to identify the perception of sustainability, social acceptability and ethical aspects of these new approaches and products in urban food production. We conducted 19 qualitative expert interviews and applied qualitative content analysis. Our results revealed that major perceived benefits are educational effects, revaluation of city districts, efficient resource use, exploitation of new protein sources or strengthening of local economies. Major perceived conflicts concern negative side-effects, legal constraints or high investment costs. The extracted acceptance factors deal significantly with the “unknown”. A lack of understanding of the new approaches, uncertainty about their benefits, concerns about health risks, a lack of familiarity with the food products, and ethical doubts about animal welfare represent possible barriers. We conclude that adaptation of the unsuitable regulatory framework, which discourages investors, is an important first step to foster dissemination of the urban food production approaches.
8. Industry self-regulation of food advertisement to children: compliance versus effectiveness of the EU Pledge
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Landwehr, Stefanie C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- Europe
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11476
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 91 : 101833
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Researchers analyzed the effectiveness of the European Union Pledge, a self-regulation initiative of leading food companies at the European level, in restricting television advertising of food and drink products high in fat, sugar or salt to children. Results indicated that effectiveness was limited by the focus on children's program and the relatively lenient nutritional criteria agreed to by signatory companies.
9. NPPC reports anti-meat groups head posed as CEO of major pork producer
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- News release
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12-28
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11987
- Notes:
- Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page., News report from the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC). "...these extremist groups should be ashamed of their stunts."
10. New report: secret regulatory talks threaten public protections
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Treat, Sharon Anglin (author)
- Format:
- Report summary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05-22
- Published:
- International: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10564
- Notes:
- 2 pages., via website, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., Regulation gets a bad name in much of the world today. Business lobbies have successfully equated it in many people’s minds with just so much “red tape”. Government-imposed rules on how things are made, how services are delivered and what products have no place on the market at all are said to hamper business competitiveness. Precautionary measures aimed at safeguarding people’s health, or the health of fragile water bodies and ecosystems, are labelled unfair barriers to trade and investment — a claim made increasingly over the past quarter-century of corporate globalization.
11. Poll: How does the public think journalism happens?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10306
- Journal Title:
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Notes:
- 8 pages., Via online., Results of a national poll for Columbia Journalism Review in partnership with Reuters/Ipsos.
12. Reporters aren't paid to advocate
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Young-Puyear, Cyndi (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08-23
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10828
- Journal Title:
- Illinois AgriNews
- Journal Title Details:
- 42(26) : D6
13. Science - especially climate research - needs a "sunshine" law
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thacker, Paul D. (author)
- Format:
- unknown
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02-15
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12108
- Notes:
- Online from Radio Free. 3 pages., Author reports on helping the U.S. Senate draft and pass the Physician Payments Sunshine Act a decade ago. It requires companies to report monies and gifts they give physicians, which are known to influence what doctors prescribe or promote. "We need a 'sunshine law' for science that would expose all sorts of conflicts of interest and industry manipulation that skew research on food, synthetical chemicals, pesticides, air pollution, genetic technology, and the climate."
14. Science can't sell fake meat
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Editorial
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08-22
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: D10850
- Journal Title:
- Drovers
- Notes:
- Via digital edition 1 page.
15. Social media dilemma
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zimmerman, Chuck (author / ZimmComm News Media, Cantonment, Florida)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02-12
- Published:
- International: Zimmcomm New Media, Cantonment, Florida.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12106
- Notes:
- Online from ZimmComm News Media. 2 pages., A pioneer in agricultural uses of new social media expresses concern about FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube having become political weapons. "Since the election, the level of censorship on all of the major social media platforms has just skyrocketed. Never in our wildest dreams did we ever think that freedom of speech and the press might be endangered in this country, but we do believe it is right now." FaceBook and Twitter platforms "are both essentially business platforms. Author reports a decision to put a temporary hold on ZimmComm business FaceBook accounts.
16. Suppression of environmental science
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kuehn, Robert R. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36609
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Law and Medicine
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(2/3) : 333-369
17. The dirty dozen: Remembering our safety seven
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sims, Tamika (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Published:
- USA: International Food Information Council, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12153
- Notes:
- Online from publisher. 3 pages., Author suggests that say one form of produce is safer and more nutritional than another should be avoided. Cites top seven things to remember about eating healthy and safe foods "when this year's (or any year's) "Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen" lists invade your social media streams."
18. Understanding labour exploitation in the Spanish agricultural sector using an agent based approach
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chesney, Thomas (author), Evans, Keith (author), Gold, Stefan (author), and Trautrims, Alexander (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03
- Published:
- Spain: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10298
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Journal Title Details:
- 214 : 696-704
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Via online journal., Using an agent-based model we explore the model of slavery in modern business developed by Crane (2013). Taking the Spanish agricultural sector—specifically the area of Campo de Dalías in Almería where much of Europe's vegetables are grown—as a case, we find that labour exploitation flourishes in communities of like-minded companies that do not care about mainstream norms. We confirm which socio-economic aspects of labour demand/supply lead to slavery, while challenging the assumption that markets which are dominated by few employers are more prone to exploiting workers. We find that, regarding isolation and connectedness of employers, cluster effects and intense inter-employer communication are particularly effective drivers of underpayment if the cluster is homogenous in terms of wage level and if it is isolated from law-abiding employers. This means that employers tend to confirm and reinforce each other in their illegal behaviour, thus creating enclaves in which non-standard norms prevail and worker exploitation is regarded as legitimate. On the other hand, we see that breaking the isolation of employees among each other only increases pay levels if there are law-abiding employers, pointing to the potentially beneficial role social business and entrepreneurs, state-owned companies, or public entrepreneurs could play for transforming labour conditions of entire markets.
19. Why I'm "freaking out" over fake meat
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Editorial
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA: Drovers CattleNetwork, Lenexa, Kansas.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11299
- Journal Title:
- Drovers
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Via online., Editorial critical of the Los Angeles Times newspaper for championing the rise of plant-based burger alternatives without context, accuracy and logic.