Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23345
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From WireTap via the Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology. 6 pages., Identifies 10 corporations as winners of the 2003 "Don't Be Fooled Awards." Includes three marketers of food products, tobacco products and forestry management concepts.
Online from publisher. 3 pages., In this commentary, the Executive Director of the Alliance for Food and Farming argues that the "dirty dozen" list published annually by the Environmental Working Group is "scientifically unsupportable, negatively impacts consumers and it is insulting to farmers and farm workers working hard every day to provide produce to consumers." She says, "If we have learned anything from the pandemic, it is that science (not rhetoric or false claims) needs to guide our health and safety choices."
Commentary on "self-financed, self-serving 'science'" used by agricultural interests involving a variety of food, agriculture, and environmental issues.
