Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21854
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Posted on Food Safety Network. 1 page., This release is accompanied by prompt statements of response by interest groups: Ontario Cattlemen's Association and Canadian Cattlemen's Association. The topic involves a suspect case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly called mad cow disease.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11738
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2 pages, Online via Agri.Marketing. 2 pages., "Kansas Agri-Women is now replacing familiar signs on highways that aim to connect producers and consumers."
This file of materials is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - "International" records section - folder identified as "OCIAC.", Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana., This file contains organizing materials, a census form, a member list, and newsletter issues of this professional group within the International Affairs Special Interest Group of ACE. The expressed goal was to "support, strengthen, and develop agricultural communications production capabilities, training, and academic programs for our profession so its members can do the best possible communications job for agricultural development around the world.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03137
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Online report from Organic Consumers Association, Finland, Minnesota. 4 pages., Reviews a report by PR Watch about an interest group that opposes the organic movement.
Retrieved June 28, 2006, Cautions about this term. "Behind the attractive epithet of 'participation' usually lurks the all-too-familiar patterns of dominance and control shaped by the mantras of 'modern' and 'progressive'."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30686
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Online via Drovers CattleNetwork. 2 pages., Refers to a 72-page set of comments from R-CALF to the USDA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA). Posted at http://www.r-calfusa.com/competition/101122RCALFCommentsGipsaRule.pdf
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09455
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Online via blog. 14 pages., Interview with Lynn Miller, publisher of The Small Farmer's Journal. Part of a series: "Stewards: stories and perspectives on American agriculture."
USA: The Center for Good Integrity. Gladstone, Missouri.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10561
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3 pages., Online from the Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri., Features research results indicating that public conversation about the environment is growing and so is the scrutiny applied to consumption of natural resources. Information source urges producers to engage more actively.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28847
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Via Marketwire. 3 pages., News release from the International Federation for Animal Welfare, Zoocheck Canada Inc., Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, Humane Society International, Animal Alliance of Canada and Canadian Federation of Humane Societies.
Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Claude W. Gifford Collection., "Its three major elements still hold the farmer's fate through their guidance of Congress; but faces, ideas change, solidarity is gone."
Via Drovers.com. 1 page., "Critics are crying foul over this week's Time magazine cover story." Includes links to reactions from others. Accompanying this document are notes from an AgriTalk radio interview with Daren Williams of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. A link identified in this document provides access to the 19:35-minute interview.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28765
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Time.com via Yahoo.com. 2 pages., Describes efforts of a college student who "singlehandedly disrupted a multi-million-dollar land auction that would have put hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in southern Utah into the hands of oil and gas companies."
This is part of an inserted supplement in Agri Marketing magazine. The supplement is entitled, "Food Systems Insider, July 2003, Volume 3, Number 3. A supplement to Food Systems Group publications and Meat&Poultry magazine."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C30006
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Via Food Systems Insider. 1 page., Report on a "Farmers Feed Us" campaign in some Midwestern states. Video posted on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WUaz2qDwM
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23612
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Wire services via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Summarizes reactions of various interest groups in the wake of a preliminary judgment by a World Trade Organization panel that bans on biotech foods in six European Union member states violated international trade rules.
