Survey data are presented on opinions about agricultural biotechnology and its application held by agricultural science faculty at highly ranked programs in the United States with and without personal involvement in biotechnology-oriented research. Findings prompt authors to argue that where even experts are divided, public opposition cannot reasonably be attributed to poor public understanding or sensationalistic media accounts.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25554
Notes:
Retrieved December 28, 2006, In News Media and the Law home page, Vol. 24, No. 2, Page 16., Involves suit about whether Oprah Winfrey and her guest Howard Lyman did or did not knowingly and falsely depict American beef as unsafe.
Barbour, Bruce (author), Govindasamy, Ramu (author), Italia, John (author), Decongelio, Marc (author), Anderson, Karen (author), and Rutgers State University
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2000-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27430
Notes:
Posted at http://dafre.rutgers.edu/documents/ramu/organicproduction.pdf