Wallach, Lori (author), Maybardukl, Peter (author), Hansen-Kuhn, Karen (author), and Jackson, Janine (author)
Format:
Interview
Publication Date:
2016-07-30
Published:
USA: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10567
Notes:
13 pages., via website, FAIR., CounterSpin interviews with Lori Wallach, Peter Maybarduk and Karen Hansen-Kuhn on trade pacts and corporate globalization
Bhattacharjea, Ajit (author / Director, Press Institute of India)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2002-04-11
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23925
Notes:
Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. Extracted from the Indian Express, New Delhi. 2 pages., Access to information reveals that funds for rural development projects in Rajasthan were mis-appropriated by local officials.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29512
Notes:
2 pages., "Scientists must ask seed companies for permission before publishing independent research on genetically modified crops. That restriction must end."
Reprinted editorial from Farm, Stock and Home. Recounts the dangers of withholding advertising because a marketer does not happen to like a certain article or editorial in a paper. "If this attitude of mind becomes general and advertising is distributed to the trimmers or the silent publications the public will be under the necessity of paying something like a reasonable price for publications that dare to be alive and vital. Perhaps that would be more satisfactory all around, for if an editor must write with both eyes on the advertisers, it's a long farewell to social, economic and moral progress."
International: Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20420
Notes:
163 pages, Authors' contention is that "the quest for corporate profits has ridden roughshod over questions of public health, freedom of choice and ecological sustainability."
International: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10565
Notes:
4 pages., via website, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., As Congress and the public debate the pros and cons of the United States-Mexico-Canada
Agreement (USMCA), or New NAFTA, behind the scenes and in the shadows transnational
corporations are doubling down on their plans to weaken and eliminate public protections
through a related entity, the secretive Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC). This littleknown council has the mission of promoting trade by “reducing, eliminating or preventing
unnecessary regulatory differences” between Canada and the United States. Since the RCC’s
inception, agribusiness—including factory-farmed livestock producers, the feed industry, and
chemical and pesticide manufacturers and linked transportation businesses—has had a seat at
the regulatory cooperation table. Their focus, without exception, has been advocating the
scaling back and even elimination of important safety protections in both countries. In the U.S.,
recommendations made by the RCC feed directly into regulations enacted (or eliminated) by
the Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection
Agency, among others
