Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21941
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Meatingplace.com. Cited in Fsnet, Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Includes discussion of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman's style of media relations and risk communicating, especially in connection with the "mad cow" matters during her tenure.
" Who can lament the passing of perpetual risk and fear, anyway? But probably we have lost something profound if corporate culture, like corporate farming, has eroded our lively old democratic pleasure in storytelling."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22272
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Science and Development Network. 3 pages., Author says "It is time to reinstate a common ground in which a free and renewed debate can take place - one in which stakeholders mindful of independence and tolerance will start to weigh facts, interpretations and arguments based on their own intrinsic value, not on their origin."
