Online via cattlenetwork.com. "Best of Drovers - this month's top stories." 2 pages., Involves the defamation settlement Disney paid to Beef Products Inc. for faulty, damaging reporting by ABC-TV involving the BPI product, lean finely textured beef.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36378
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Drovers CattleNetwork via online. 3 pages., Author comments about a CNN Eatocracy feature that included an observation that the 4-H organization serves to desensitize children to the suffering of animals.
Radhakrishnan, Bharathi (author / ABC News Medical Unit)
Format:
News article
Publication Date:
2006-06-14
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24247
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Retrieved June 16, 2006, Via ABC News. 2 pages., A lawsuit by the Center for Science in the Public Interest against KFC for fat levels in fried chicken raises questions about limitations on what Americans eat and about appropriateness of "press conference" law suits meant to attract media attention. Cites results of a nonscientific survey on ABCNEWS.com.
International: Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01515
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Pages 93-107 in Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), Animal rights: current debates and new directions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 338 pages.
10 pages, Animal production system and welfare conditions can influence consumers’ acceptance, as meat from animals grazing in natural pasture and labelled with information about high standards of welfare is preferred. In addition, geographical origin of food is recently considered one of the main information influencing the consumers’ acceptance. Local products are collectively associated with high quality attributes by the consumers related to shorter transport and good welfare. Lamb meat is considered local and typical food; however, it is common to find in the same market both local and imported lamb meat. The present investigation aimed at understanding the importance of information about geographical origin, transport duration, and welfare condition of lambs for consumers and their actual liking. Moreover, the quality of lamb meat from local and imported animals as affected by short or long transport was assessed. Data demonstrated that both short and long transport did not affect organoleptic quality of meat; this result was corroborated by an absence of both metabolic and immune stressors in long term transport lambs except for haptoglobin, cortisol and glucose. However, the expected and actual acceptability were affected by the information with higher scores for local lamb when information on the geographical origin, transport duration, and welfare condition was provided to the consumers.
Williams, Gary W. (author), Capps, Oral. Jr. (author), Dang, Trang (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35930
Notes:
Agribusiness, Food and Consumer Economics Research Center Commodity Research Report No. CM-01-10. 35 pages.
Funk, T.F. (author), Huff, H.B. (author), Meilke, Karl D. (author), and Associate Professor, School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education, University of Guelph, Canada; Assistant Professor, School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education, University of Guelph, Canada; Economics Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1977-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 45 Document Number: B05453
22 pages., Via online journal, Private consumption is increasingly being blamed for resource depletion and environmental degradation, and the discourse of ascribing environmental responsibility to the individual consumer has become a part of mainstream policy-making. Measures aimed at promoting consumers' voluntary engagement through sustainable consumption now constitute an important part of public sustainability strategies. Nevertheless, the actual progress made in changing people's consumption patterns in a more sustainable direction has been modest. Based on a quantitative and a qualitative content analysis of articles on environmentally sustainable consumption of meat published in five national and regional newspapers in Norway between 2000 and 2010, it is argued in this article that an important reason for the lack of both political and consumer engagement in the issue can be attributed to a discursive confusion that arises from a simultaneous existence of mainly two clashing discourses on what is actually environmentally sustainable consumption of meat. One that is focusing on the environmentally malign aspects of consumption and production of (especially) red meat, and another that is focusing on the environmentally benign aspects of production and consumption of red meat. The findings imply that the lack of consensus on the character of the problem constitutes a major barrier for the opportunity to change people's consumption patterns in a more environmentally sustainable direction through the use of voluntary measures.
AGRICOLA IND 91034172, Ethical activity cannot be mandated, since ethics are an individual value system hat interacts with, and is supported or inhibited by, the moral values of society and any restrictive legislation. However, discussion of ethical topic areas assist in the establishment of individual and societal ethical standards. Extension specialists are characterized as being dedicated professionals; advocates of the industry and of consumers; and persons interested in the long-term success of the poultry system, which results in benefits to society. Too often, they also are characterized as accepting of situations that must be changed if the poultry system is to survive and to progress. Administrators have the power and, therefore, the responsibility to ensure policy decisions are ethical and to examine the long-term effects of those policy decisions. Many administrators have the respect of their agricultural industries and of Extension personnel because of the attempt to create an ethical environment. The objective of Extension personnel should not be ethical perfection, which is unattainable, but rather recognition of imperfections in themselves and the system with attempts to correct deficiencies. Basic questions of ethics or fairness should be discussed before attempting to create changes in individual behavior or in a system. There is little value to great philosophical debates or protestations of unethical behavior if there is no concurrent attempt to modify situations that led to initial ethical concerns. (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23310
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Eurobarometer via European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. 1 page., Responses to European Union survey question about agreement or disagreement with the idea that the agri-food industry bears a great deal of responsibility in the mad cow disease affair.
Jensen, Helen H. (author), Schroeter, John R. (author), and Associate Professor of Economics and Head of the Food and Nutrition Policy Division, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University; Associate Professor of Economics, Iowa State University
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1989-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 74 Document Number: C03730
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Ames, IA : Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University, 1989. 21 p. (CARD Working Paper 89-WP43) Paper presented at the NEC-63 Research Conference on Commodity Advertising and Promotion; 1989 February 22-23; Orlando, FL
Hayenga, Marvin (author), Hoover, Sue (author), Johnson, Stanley R. (author), and Hoover, Hayenga: Department of Economics, Iowa State University; Johnson: Director, Center of Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06460
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; Paper presented at the 1989 Commodity Advertising and Promotion Conference, In: Kinnucan, Henry W.; Thompson, Stanley R.; and Chang, Hui-Shung, eds. Commodity advertising and promotion. Ames, IA : Iowa State University Press, 1992. p. 235-260
Peterson, Jane W. (author) and Scharpe, Jennifer (author)
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2009-08-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29322
Notes:
Posted at http://www.aejmc.org, Paper presented at the 2009 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention, Boston, Massachusetts, August 5-8, 2009.
Ward, Ronald W. (author), Verbeke, Wim (author), and Viaene, Jacques (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1999-08-08
Published:
Belgium
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23617
Notes:
Presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. 14 pages, Findings included a highly negative impact of television coverage on consumer decision making toward fresh meat, both from the past and in the future.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: D09010
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Online from the Food and Environment Reporting Network. 2 pages., Author describes an investigative reporting effort by Ted Genoway, a Nebraska-based writer. Provides link to the story, "Terror in the heartland."
Dunlap, Annette (author), Benson, Geoffrey (author), and Poore, Matt (author)
Format:
Handbook
Publication Date:
2010-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08548
Notes:
ACDC holds citation information and contents page., Online from North Carolina State University, North Carolina Cooperative Extension and the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center of USDA Rural Development, Washington, D.C., and Iowa State University, Ames. 2nd edition, 98 pages.
Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 3 pages., Based on findings of the Ag Economy Barometer poll by Purdue University. Responses by farmers indicating they expect the market share of plant-based alternatives to beef, pork, and chicken will grow rapidly. Most said they would not grow crops for processing into a meat alternative, even if offered a contract.
Retrieved online. 2 pages., "Farming issues typically receive little television coverage, but there has been a wealth of TV programmes on food and agricultural issues during the first two weeks of 2008." Description includes the return of a four-show run on BBC3, "Kill it, Cook it, Eat it."
USA: Roper Center at the University of Connecticut
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22039
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Public Opinion Online, Gallup Poll of November 2004. 2 pages., Responses to a question in a national adult Gallup Poll. Top rankings: turkey - 49%; stuffing/dressing - 14%; ham, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie - 5%.
Telg, Ricky (author), Irani, Tracy (author), and Meyers, Courtney (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-06-16
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25856
Notes:
Presented at the 2007 ACE/NETC conference sponsored by the International Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) and the National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 16-19, 2007. 23 pages.
2 pages., Introduces a new monthly national online survey that tracks consumer preferences and sentiments on the safety, quality and price of food at home and away from home, with particular emphasis on meat demand.
McGuirk, Anya M. (author), Preckel, Paul V. (author), Peterson, Everett B. (author), Van Eenoo, Edward Jr. (author), Gracia, A. (author), and Albisu, L.M. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22417
Soule, Alexander (author / Boston Business Journal)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-03-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23752
Notes:
Boston Business Journal via MSNBC.com. 2 pages., A firm is "developing food labels that change color to signal the freshness of packaged meat in the local supermarket, detecting spoilage right through the wrap."
USA: International Food Information Council, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12082
Notes:
Online from the IFIC organization. 5 pages., "2021 food trends: from our eating and purchasing habits for food safety, COVID-19 still looms large on food decisions and health goals." Summary of findings from the 2020 Food and Health Survey conducted by IFIC.
