Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press

Morris, Carol; Helliwell, Richard; Raman, Sujatha

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.03.003

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“…The broadcast media's role, notably TV and radio, could also be included in this endeavour. Second, analysis of print and broadcast media for a 'general' rather than specialist audience or profession e.g., the farming press means that issues of importance to the latter might well be missing (Morris et al 2016). Although this has been partially addressed in the research reported herein through the inclusion of regional newspapers with a predominantly rural consumer base it would be worthwhile examining the agricultural press as part of a wider research effort, as suggested above, that engages agricultural actors in deliberating the challenges of meat production and consumption.…”

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‘Taking the Politics out of Broccoli’: Debating (De)meatification in UK National and Regional Newspaper Coverage of the Meat Free Mondays Campaign

Morris

2017

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article addresses UK society's relationship with meat and specifically explores the extent to which a process of ‘de‐meatification’ is underway in this context and one of the mechanisms involved. It does so through analysis of reporting of the Meat Free Mondays (MFM) campaign in the national and regional British print news media. MFM offers a convenient yet powerful vehicle for trying to understand shifting meanings of meat not least because it directly challenges, and generates debate about the dominant – meat based – diet. The article concludes by arguing that a shift is taking place in the status of meat within UK society with the print news media acting as a mechanism that is working in support of de‐meatification. However, these conclusions are qualified in a number of important ways, including the anthropocentrism of the (de)meatification debate, its geographical variability and its weakly politicised character.

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‘Taking the Politics out of Broccoli’: Debating (De)meatification in UK National and Regional Newspaper Coverage of the Meat Free Mondays Campaign

Morris

2017

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“…Like other animal-based production systems, broiler production has been criticized for animal cruelty (Duncan 2001), environmental impact (Leinonen et al 2012), use of antibiotics as growth promoters (Morris, Helliwell, and Raman 2016), and foodborne pathogen contamination (Boyd 2001). From salmonella to campylobacter (Meldrum and Wilson 2007) and outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (Leibler et al 2009), chicken meat production has also been at the centre of agro-food crises-like BSE for beef, or foot-and-mouth disease for cattle (Loeber, Hajer, and Levidow 2011)-that illustrate the high news value of public health concerns.…”

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The Chick Diffusion: How Newspapers Fail to Meet Normative Expectations Regarding Their Democratic Role in Public Debate

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Media scholarship has commonly regarded newspapers as an essential element of strong democratic societies: a forum that structures public debate, providing engaged citizens with coherent frameworks to identify, interpret and tackle complex issues. Despite general agreement on the merits of this goal, there is little empirical evidence suggesting it approximates the democratic role historically played by newspapers. We examined three decades of newspaper coverage of chicken meat production in the UK to find evidence relevant to the normative expectations of the democratic role of newspapers as forum for public debate, by means of a two-stage framing analysis of 766 relevant articles from seven outlets. We found mutually disconnected episodic coverage of specific issues whose aggregate effect is consistent with the diffusion rather than the structuring of public debate. Newspapers here afforded polemic rather than the systemic contestation expected. The polemic contestation we found, with diffusion of public debate as an emergent political effect, troubles the assumptions subsequent to which it is possible to argue for the democratic role of newspapers.

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“…Significantly, different publics prioritised different risks. This variation of risk perceptions both between nations and between different social groups has been studied intensively by historians and sociologists and strongly impacted antibiotic use and policymaking (SmithHoward, 2010;Morris et al, 2016;Etienne et al, 2017;Hockenhull et al, 2017;Begemann et al, 2018): some countries decided to target antibiotic residues in food and milk, others decided to tackle agricultural AMR selection, and others decided to do nothing at all. Although it is beyond the scope of this paper to reconstruct national case studies in detail, varying risk perceptions, economic imperatives, and local patterns of use had given rise to a global patchwork of antibiotic regulations by the early 1970s.…”

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Pharming animals: a global history of antibiotics in food production (1935–2017)

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Since their advent during the 1930s, antibiotics have not only had a dramatic impact on human medicine, but also on food production. On farms, whaling and fishing fleets as well as in processing plants and aquaculture operations, antibiotics were used to treat and prevent disease, increase feed conversion, and preserve food. Their rapid diffusion into nearly all areas of food production and processing was initially viewed as a story of progress on both sides of the Iron Curtain. However, from the mid-1950s onwards, agricultural antibiotic use also triggered increasing conflicts about drug residues and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Significantly, antibiotic concerns did not develop evenly but instead gave rise to an international patchwork of different regulatory approaches. During a time of growing concerns about AMR and a post-antibiotic age, this article reconstructs the origins, global proliferation, and international regulation of agricultural antibiotics. It argues that policymakers need to remember the long history of regulatory failures that has resulted in current antibiotic infrastructures. For effective international stewardship to develop, it is necessary to address the economic dependencies, deep-rooted notions of development, and fragmented cultural understandings of risk, which all contribute to drive global antibiotic consumption and AMR.

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Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press

Cited by 56 publications

References 38 publications

‘Taking the Politics out of Broccoli’: Debating (De)meatification in UK National and Regional Newspaper Coverage of the Meat Free Mondays Campaign

‘Taking the Politics out of Broccoli’: Debating (De)meatification in UK National and Regional Newspaper Coverage of the Meat Free Mondays Campaign

The Chick Diffusion: How Newspapers Fail to Meet Normative Expectations Regarding Their Democratic Role in Public Debate

Pharming animals: a global history of antibiotics in food production (1935–2017)

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