Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D06776
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Online via Pew Research Center. 8 pages., "Scientists and the American public are often far apart when it comes to views about science-related issues."
Gaskell, George (author), Bauer, Martin W. (author), Allum, Nicholas C. (author), Jackson, Jonathan (author), Howard, Susan (author), Lindsey, Nicola (author), and Methodology Institute
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Research report
Publication Date:
2003-07
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UK: London School of Economics. London WC2A 2AE
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 126 Document Number: C18505
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20 pages; Research from the project "Life Sciences in European Society" supported by the EC Directorate for General Research
UK: Social Science Research Unit, Food Standards Agency, United Kingdom.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C29999
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6 pages., Study conducted by Brook Lyndhurst Ltd for the Food Standards Agency. Findings revealed the UK public "wary, uneasy and uncertain about emerging food technologies" such as nanotechnologies, animal cloning and synthetic biology. Full report (89 pages) available at http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/emergingfoodtech.pdf
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C26955
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Online from V-Fluence web site via PR Reporter. 3 pages., "Words like 'frankenfoods' and 'genetic engineering' scare consumers and deny them the facts about agricultural biotechnology and food safety, the author writes."
James F. Evans Collection, Research directors at American land-grant universities are optimistic regarding the future of agricultural biotechnology and expect the ongoing "biotechnology revolution" to benefit the public, including consumers and farmers. Unresolved public policy questions involving biotechnology do concern many of the research administrators who responded to an opinion poll, but the prevailing attitude appears to be on of confident expectation that solutions will in time emerge for all outstanding biotech problems. Asked about "biotechnology's ethical questions," a majority of the respondents that U.S. land-grant institutions are well equipped to deal with such questions. The respondents said biotechnology may pose environmental risks, but they did not expect biological catastrophes to occur. They said biotechnology could be used to foster low-input methods of agricultural production, and they were in favor of pursuing biotech research that might improve agriculture's sustainability. (original)
