Below are lists of sources I used in each part of the website. 

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Despite my best efforts to supply valid and accurate information,

I encourage you to challenge everything you read both on this site and on others. 

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Do your own research.  Validate the information you find.  Never settle for taking somebody’s word for it. 

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Everybody has a reason to present information to you with their own particular slant, even if it’s not apparent.

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Most of my sources fall into one of three categories: Time Magazine Articles, Government Articles, and Progressive Articles.  Each one presents information from its own perspective.  Here I have shed some light into the present historical context of each group of articles:

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TIME Magazine Articles—

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The TIME Magazine Articles used in this website were used for the purposes of creating the graphs of public awareness of topics relating to the integrity of American food.  I used a corpus of TIME articles which included all articles published in print since TIME’s beginning in 1923. 

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For much of the century, the American public saw TIME Magazine as a critical source of information.  Reporting relevant information has been crucial to the success of its sales, which is why I chose to use it to represent hot topics in the previous century.

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With the rise in popularity of instantaneous electronic news, many news agencies have sacrificed fact-checking in return for faster headlines and lower costs for on-staff personnel.  Fortunately, for most of TIME Magazine’s existence, print and television broadcast media were the dominant news formats, which allowed for more reliable information than is common today.

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Government Articles—

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My government sources were all take from electronic articles on the internet.  Since concern for the integrity of fresh food has only seemed to gain mainstream popularity in recent decades, most of my articles were written were within the last decade or so.  Also, most of the articles were written specifically for the web, also indicating that they were written relatively recently.

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At this point in time, the public expects transparency from their government.  In this democratic nation, scandals can deadly to the careers of government officials.  The growth of the Organic Movement over the last 20+ years has placed extra pressure on the government to be honest about its controversial practices.  In a day and age where information is constantly being sent to millions of people instantaneously, criticism of the government can be easily distributed to the masses. 

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This also creates incentive for the government to respond to inquiries about their more controversial decisions.  If the government doesn’t make a case supporting their own actions, then most of the information consumers find will be information that attacks those actions.  It is therefore in the government’s best interest to be honest about the actions it has taken, but to portray those actions in such a way that they appear reasonable.

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Progressive Articles—

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The progressive articles I read were written in the last 20 years, usually in the last 10, and were written for the internet.  Most of them were published on privately owned websites, which means that there is no guarantee of accuracy or peer review.  The websites openly support causes related to the Organic Movement, which creates a potential for biased information. 

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To their credit, most of these websites do not contain ads, meaning that they are less likely to have direct financial incentive to only portray issues in a particular light.  They often cited their sources, and when I did my own research to weigh their claims against the information on opposing government websites, their information was consistent with the governments’, only it presented the same facts from a different viewpoint.

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Bibliography

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Page 1: Home

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http://planetsnazzy.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/mountaindew1.jpg?w=614

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Page 2: Presentation

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/11/arsenic-in-your-food/index.htm
http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodContaminantsAdulteration/Metals/ucm319948.htm
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http://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/ColorAdditives/RegulatoryProcessHistoricalPerspectives/default.htm

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http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/rbgh/

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Page 3: Events

http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/courses/ansc221v/histnote.htm

http://www.nutritionbreakthroughs.com/html/a_history_of_nutrition.html

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/Overviews/ucm056044.htm

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​Page 4: Awareness

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Page 5: Lifestyle

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http://www.google.com
http://www.eatwild.com/products/virginia.html

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