Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25863
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Mail & Guardian (UK) via Food Safety Network. 1 page., Advertising Standards Authority is cited as ordering Monsanto to withdraw an advertising claim that no negative reactions have ever been reported to genetically modified foods.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11726
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Online from AgWeb.com via AgriMarketing Weekly. 2 pages., Discontinued advertising campaign based on inaccurate information about using lemongrass in cows' diets to reduce methane emissions by "up to 33%."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24905
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Special Bulletin No. 18. 3 pages., Calls attention to errors of description creeping into the advertising of some firms selling clothing, particularly women's clothing, by mail. Confirms standards used by the Vigilance Committee.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22518
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin 26, pp. 2-3., Cites a letter from the chairman of the Agricultural Press Committee of the American Association of Advertising Agencies noting that advertising agencies "do not hold themselves alert to the agricultural paper idea." Too much focus on markets in cities, too little on those in county seat towns in agricultural districts. Cites the low cost of farm paper advertising and urges advertising agencies to open-mindedly work with farm publishers to develop business.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10557
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2 pages., via website, AgriMarketing Weekly., A Wisconsin judge on Friday ordered Anheuser-Busch to stop suggesting in advertising that MillerCoors’ light beers contain corn syrup, wading into a fight between two beer giants that are losing market share to small independent brewers.
