Cites results of a simulated outbreak of food and mouth disease. Reports recommendations, including needs for coordinated communicating among organizations.
Via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Describes a program designed to encourage farmers to take "positive approaches to help protect the environment and keep peace with their neighbors."
"The results of a survey on rural residents' opinions of their pork producing neighbours may be surprising to some." Researchers reports that producers often think their neighbours feel more negatively abvout their operations than they really do.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23527
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Banff Pork Seminar, Banff, Alberta, Canada. 2 pages., Report of a research project indicating that once neighbors were exposed to the realities of pork production in their environment they were more likely to change previously held negative perceptions of the industry.
Author questions the value of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and identifies ways in which it threatens the traditional freedoms associated with the rural way of life.
