This study examines the roles of cholesterol information and advertising in explaining consumption trends for fats and oils, focusing on butter. Results suggest increased consumer awareness of the health effects of blood cholesterol has contributed to the secular decline in butter consumption in Canada. Although consumers' responses to negative information appear to outweigh their responses to positive information, the industry advertising campaign launched in 1978 by the Dairy Bureau of Canada has had a positive effect on butter demand.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C35866
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Pages 309-314 in Ronald E. Rice and Charles K. Atkin (eds.), Public communication campaigns, Third Edition, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. 428 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 5 Document Number: B00547
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See also B00288, a report of the thesis. Eugene A. Kroupa Collection., Thesis, master of science in agricultural journalism, Agricultural Journalism Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 103 p., Analysis of an unsuccessful commodity promotion campaign.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18102
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Pages 82-84 in Mary Cross (ed.), A century of American icons: 100 products and slogans from the 20th century consumer culture. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut. 236 pages, Describes the Elsie the Cow campaign by Borden, beginning in the 1930s. By 1997 Borden had become primarily a chemical company and sold its dairy business to Mid-American Dairymen, which changed its name to the Dairy Farmers of America (DFA). DFA has rights to the Elsie and Borden trademarks which are used on DFA products.
