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    1. Are sustainability and stewardship the same?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Southwood, Andrew (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2020-07-15
    Published:
    USA: Farm Journal Media
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11762
    Journal Title:
    Packer
    Notes:
    Online from publisher. 2 pages., Author suggests that while many in the produce industry use "sustainability" and "stewardship" as interchangeable terms,they are not. "True sustainability is a mindset that is international in its approach, purposeful in the value it adds to all stakeholders, resource-optimized for operations, circular in thinking, supply chain resilient, ecologically friendly and culturally attuned."

    2. Environmental propaganda

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Crowley, Kelley (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2014
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11114
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Mass Media Ethics
    Journal Title Details:
    29(2) : 134-135
    Notes:
    Perspectives on the role of an ethical public communicator in "this toxic political situation called the environmental debate." Author concludes that in this information environment "the real ethical issue lies with us - the informed citizenry. An ethical citizenry would be rhetorically savvy in order to make sound choices about their local economies and their global environment."

    4. Listen to science and studies, not false claims and rhetoric

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Thorne, Teresa (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2021-03
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12136
    Journal Title:
    Packer
    Notes:
    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."

    5. Livestock's contribution to climate change: facts and fiction

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Mitloehner, Frank (author / University of California-Davis)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2016-04
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11025
    Notes:
    Via online., "A white paper, defining the role animal agriculture and other sectors of societ play in their respective contribution of greenhouse gasses, as the societal concerns grow to seek a sustainable global future." ... "Now is the time to end the rhetoric and separate facts from fiction around the numerous sectors that contribute emissions and to identify solutions for the global food supply that allow us to reduce our impact on the planet and its resources."

    6. Make way for the paper movement

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Riebel, Philippe (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    USA: Two Sides North America, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D11533
    Notes:
    1 page., Online from publisher website. 1 page., Author discussed paper as a "natural fit for the circular economy model," in which recyclable paper-based materials are replacing pollution-oriented plastic packaging as companies look for more sustainable ways to produce their products.

    7. Medicine and the media: a synergistic combination?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Dean, Paige H. (author) and Zou, Vito Z (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2020
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11843
    Journal Title:
    University of British Columbia Medical Journal (UBCMJ)
    Journal Title Details:
    11(2) : 30-31
    Notes:
    Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog., Report of an interdisciplinary journalism project involving relationships between information gathering and reporting in the mass media and in medical communications. Involved links between fishmeal and the fish farming industry in Peru.

    9. Partisanship, piffle and prattle

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Guebert, Alan (author / Farm and Food File)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2019-10-04
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11033
    Journal Title:
    Illinois Agri News
    Journal Title Details:
    42(32) : C6
    Notes:
    Commentary on "self-financed, self-serving 'science'" used by agricultural interests involving a variety of food, agriculture, and environmental issues.

    10. The importance of assessing and communicating scientific consensus

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Maibach, Edward W. (author) and Van der Linden, Sander L. (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2016-12-15
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08190
    Journal Title:
    Environmental Research Letters
    Journal Title Details:
    11 : 1-3
    Notes:
    Authors review research involving public concerns in the United Kingdom, USA and Canada regarding the existence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program (SLAP). Research involved an analysis of scientist consensus regarding the issue.