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2. Agribusiness's secretive plans to unravel food safety and worker protections
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Treat, Sharon Anglin (author)
- Format:
- Report summary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02-19
- Published:
- International: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10565
- Notes:
- 4 pages., via website, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., As Congress and the public debate the pros and cons of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), or New NAFTA, behind the scenes and in the shadows transnational corporations are doubling down on their plans to weaken and eliminate public protections through a related entity, the secretive Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC). This littleknown council has the mission of promoting trade by “reducing, eliminating or preventing unnecessary regulatory differences” between Canada and the United States. Since the RCC’s inception, agribusiness—including factory-farmed livestock producers, the feed industry, and chemical and pesticide manufacturers and linked transportation businesses—has had a seat at the regulatory cooperation table. Their focus, without exception, has been advocating the scaling back and even elimination of important safety protections in both countries. In the U.S., recommendations made by the RCC feed directly into regulations enacted (or eliminated) by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency, among others
3. Journalism's fight for FOI beyond the pines: covering climate change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Venn, David (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11-07
- Published:
- Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11428
- Journal Title:
- Ryerson Review of Journalism
- Notes:
- 4 pages., Online via publication website., Author addresses a Parks Canada policy that prevented employees from speaking with the media without approval. This follows up on an earlier article, "Parks in the dark," published in The Narwhal and shining "a bright light on how Parks Canada's media relations' practices hinder press freedom."
4. New report: secret regulatory talks threaten public protections
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Treat, Sharon Anglin (author)
- Format:
- Report summary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05-22
- Published:
- International: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10564
- Notes:
- 2 pages., via website, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., Regulation gets a bad name in much of the world today. Business lobbies have successfully equated it in many people’s minds with just so much “red tape”. Government-imposed rules on how things are made, how services are delivered and what products have no place on the market at all are said to hamper business competitiveness. Precautionary measures aimed at safeguarding people’s health, or the health of fragile water bodies and ecosystems, are labelled unfair barriers to trade and investment — a claim made increasingly over the past quarter-century of corporate globalization.
5. Problems of journalism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Conference presentation
- Publication Date:
- 1952
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09550
- Notes:
- Hal R. Taylor Collection, Proceedings of the 1952 convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Des Moines, Iowa., Excerpts from this report.