Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24113
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Gallup Poll Social Series - Governance. Via Gallup Brain. 1 page., Summary of responses to a question about levels of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the work is doing, as related to agriculture and farming.
USA: University of Illinois Press, Chicago, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24040
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304 pages., Insights into the economic, political and industrial forces that shaped documentaries during American television's first sustained period of muckraking, between 1960 and 1975. Includes the documentary, "Harvest of Shame."
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., American Newspaper Publishers Association protests efforts by government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to control advertising content inappropriately. Article cites an example: "A 1933 order by the animal industry bureau of the Agriculture Department deleting from Jones's dairy farm advertising a jingle, 'Most little pigs to to market, The best little pigs go to Jones's,' on the grounds that it was misleading."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: C25342
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From Vocal Point column via Food Safety Network. 3 pages., Author challenges accuracy of widely-accepted government statistics claiming that Americans spend under 10 percent of their disposable income on food.
Hess, Charles E. (author / Assistant Secretary for Science and Education, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06596
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James F. Evans Collection; Paper presented at the Third Annual National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Meeting, In: MacDonald, June Fessenden, ed. Agricultural biotechnology at the crossroads : biological social & institutional concerns. Ithaca, NY : National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 1991. p. 138-143
Reports on "an intense debate over government-funded efforts to influence news coverage" related in particular to the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
