In letter to the editor, Lancet is criticized by a representative of the Biotechnology Industry Organization for placing politics and tabloid sensationalism above its responsibility to report and assess new science.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05923
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Online via www.wired.com. 8 pages., Controversial proposal from John Deere to the Copyright Office suggesting that due to computer codes in modern farm tractors farmers receive "an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: D06122
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Pages 66-71 in "Ethics, efficiency and food security: feeding the 9 billion well," The Crawford Fund 2014 Annual Parliamentary Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia, August 24-28, 2014. 157 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06515
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6 pages., Responses to questions for an oral history project sponsored by the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06588
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Unpublished notes of responses during an interview/video session with Fawn Kurtzo, graduate student at the University of Arkansas, July 14, 2015. 4 pages.
Writer criticizes current language use and reports that he tosses flags and assigns penalties (per football) when he sees and hears misuse of language while watching television.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07917
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5 pages., Author of "Bare Knuckles" blog shares with members of the AgriculturalRelations Council hs blog about "how the beef industry responded to soddy science and shoddy reporting about cancer risk in red and processed meats.."
Perspectives on USDA recommendation for staff members to refer to "climate change" as "weather extremes" and "climate change adaption" to "resilience to weather extremes."
