Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29251
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From BrownfieldAgNews via AgriMarketing update. 1 page., Reports on ag industry reactions to what one critic described as a "full-blown opinion piece disguised as news" in Time magazine.
Online from publication. 3 pages., Editorial highlights the inaccuracies in a Burger King television advertisement that repeats misleading claims and data about the role of beef and dairy production in greenhouse gas emissions that harm climate.
A version of this article appears in print on September 6, 2015, Section A, Page 1 of the New York Edition of the New York Times with the headline, "Emails reveal academic ties in a food war.", Examines lobbying activities of firms and interest groups in the debate over bioengineered foods - and involving third-party scientists "and their supposedly unbiased research." Includes examples of interactions and financial support for university scientists by commercial firms.
