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- Alberta Pork’s H1N1 challenges, responses by Food and Farming Canada on Oct 21, 2009
This post is a continuation from yesterday’s H1N1 topic that explored Alberta Pork’s experiences at the centre of the H1N1 media storm earlier this year. The information is based on a presentation I attended by Lee Funke of Torque Communications...
- Inside Alberta Pork’s H1N1 war room by Food and Farming Canada on Oct 20, 2009
It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to be at the centre of a media firestorm unless you’ve actually experienced it. For the staff at Alberta Pork and the communications professionals working with them, the spring of 2009 provided more first-han...
- Journalists can help debunk food misconceptions by Food and Farming Canada on Sep 16, 2009
The relationship many of us have with food is a lot like one we would have with a spouse, family member or friend. It can make us feel joy and inspire great passions – but can also evoke feelings of sadness, disappointment or guilt. We interact wi...
- Swine flu or whine flu? How media covered H1N1 by Food and Farming Canada on Jul 28, 2009
Much has been said about media coverage of the H1N1 outbreak – both by the general public and by those of us in agriculture. And most of what is being said hasn’t been very complimentary. Certainly from farmers’ perspective, the media is to bla...
- From blossom to pie – and beyond by Food and Farming Canada on Jul 27, 2009
This post is part of an ongoing series about Ontario crops that are in season. I’ve loved cherries all of my life. But as with so many things, I’d never really given a second thought to how they got to my dinner table. I knew they grew o...
- From blossom to pie - and beyond by Food and Farming Canada on Jul 27, 2009
This post is part of an ongoing series about Ontario crops that are in season. I’ve loved cherries all of my life. But as with so many things, I’d never really given a second thought to how they got to my dinner table. I knew they grew o...
- Ending the flu frenzy over pigs and pork by Food and Farming Canada on May 1, 2009
They’ve finally listened. Yesterday, the World Health Organization announced that they were re-naming what everyone’s been calling “swine flu” to H1N1 Influenza A. Pandemic frenzy has taken hold as we grapple with this new flu that has emerge...
