Crying over spoiled milk: contamination, visibility, and expectation in environmental stigma

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Edelstein, Michael R. (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19689
    Subject Term:
    accuracy, attitudes, case studies, chemicals, consumer attitudes, consumers, coverage, dairy, feedstuffs, food safety, livestock, mass media, reporting, and milk
    Notes:
    Pages 41-68 in James Flynn, Paul Slovic and Howard Kunreuther (eds), Risk, media and stigma: understanding public challenges to modern science and technology. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, England. 399 pages., Case study of a "radiating chain of stigma beginning with the accidental contamination of silage with oils containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the consumption of the feed by dairy cows, the discovery of PCBs in cows milk bottled as a raw milk pro

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