Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23593
Notes:
Center for Food Safety and Food and Water Watch via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Two interest groups cite research about commercial failure in this industry, "and we can't understand why our government is still pushing a technology that consumers don't want, scientists have warned us away from due to potential long-term health risks, and investors steer clear of year after year."
Ellis, Stu (author) and University of Illinois Extension.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2007-07-26
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26275
Notes:
Via "Farm Gate" web site. 1 page., Researchers find "the impacts of advertising and food safety effects to be economically small compared with price and expenditure effects." Also, the economists "believe that generic pork advertising appears to help demand for poultry more than pork."
Revealed evidence that most of the observed change in egg demand between 1987 and 1995 could be explaind b y dietary cholesterol concerns. Advertising efforts resulted in net benefits to egg producers.
