Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: D06122
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Pages 66-71 in "Ethics, efficiency and food security: feeding the 9 billion well," The Crawford Fund 2014 Annual Parliamentary Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia, August 24-28, 2014. 157 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26631
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Archived November 28, 2007, Via Food Safety Network. 1 page., Criticizes practices of reporters who want to "dish the dirt on dangerous dining, or seep into the city's soiled food service underbelly, or test for toxins in takeout."
In letter to the editor, Lancet is criticized by a representative of the Biotechnology Industry Organization for placing politics and tabloid sensationalism above its responsibility to report and assess new science.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28949
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1 page., A nutrition scientist criticizes the soundness of a peer reviewed journal article about genetic modification and urges an agricultural reporter to read such articles critically and weigh their merits. A response from the Network follows.
Collins, Ronald K.L. (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
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Commentary
Publication Date:
1998-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24431
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Retrieved July 7, 2006, From the Baltimore Sun (Maryland) via CSPI. 3 pages., In the interest of First Amendment protection, author says "it is essential that existing food-disparagement laws be rejected in the courts and legislatures of this land."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22592
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Posted at: http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/printNewsBis.asp?id=61508, Online from foodproductiondaily.com 3 pages., Urges food industry not to dismiss studies that seem "scientifically flawed." "It is simply not good enough - ever - to fall back on seeing only what we want to see." The process should not be driven by reports in mass media.
Miraldi, Robert (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24428
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Retrieved July 7, 2006, 2 pages., Comments on the high cost Oprah Winfrey incurred in defending against the defamation suit by beef interests. "When an industry can haul a speaker into court for merely discussing food safety, the result, inevitably, is silence of the next speaker."
