Interviews with animal rights advocates prompt author to suggest that a satisfactory resolution of the debate over the use of animals can only emerge in an atmosphere of respect, communication and mutual understanding rather than through the "argumentation is war" model.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07334
Notes:
Pages 145-183 in Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany. 284 pages., Calls for sensitivity to local conditions, issues, uncertainties and knowledge. Notes loss in local knowledge. "Agencies need to realise that cultural diversity and local people's knowledge and practices should contribute significantly to our understanding and protection of natural environments."
26 pages, This research is intended to initiate understanding of how obesity in the South persists even though the majority of inhabitants subscribe to a faith that discourages unhealthy lifestyles. Grounded in the Cognitive Dissonance Theory, this study examined Protestant evangelical Christians in the South (N = 11), who participated in semi-structured interviews. The first emergent theme was that, to these Southerners, the purpose of food is for sustenance and survival, as well as for bringing people together. Most participants reported having an average level of knowledge of nutrition and health. Furthermore, participants generally agreed that marketing or educational efforts had little effect on their understanding of nutrition. Another theme emerged when participants provided Biblical references to food or health. “The Body is a Temple” and “gluttony” were the most common Biblical concepts. All participants referred to taste or desirability as the driver of their food selections. Furthermore, most participants claimed habitual gluttony as a personal experience in their lives. This study concluded that subjects employed two modes of “trivializing” as a way of resolving dissonance. Some participants justified their eating habits based on Southern culture, while others explained that their church culture supported unhealthy eating as a means of gathering in fellowship.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19710
Notes:
Pages 39-51 in Georgette Wang and Wimal Dissanayake (eds.), Continuity and change in communication systems: an Asian perspective. Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, New Jersey USA. 274 pages.
Kahle, R.R. (author), Lee, R.L. (author), and Missouri Water Resources Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia}Missouri Water Resources Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: B05629
Mason, Debra (author), Nanney, Robert (author), and E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University, Athens, OH; E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06326
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, [1992]. 39 p. Paper presented at the 1992 Convention of the Radio-Television Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; Montreal, Canada
Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog., Report of Symposium III, an eight-nation, sea-borne (Danube River) conference hosted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. It encouraged an increased level of responsibility and social conscience in parishes of the Black Sea region regarding ecological challenges. The symposium developed a 10-point action plan for the future, separate from the activities of the religious communities and based on conclusions of working groups.
