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Making The Healthy Choice: Exploring Health Communication In The Food System, Emily Portman
Making The Healthy Choice: Exploring Health Communication In The Food System, Emily Portman
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Cooperative Extension System are organizations that serve the public and agricultural communities, respectively. Within these broad organizations are two groups of food systems professionals, registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) and Extension agents, who are utilizing communication as a critical point of access for health-related issues. Both groups of professionals negotiate organizational structure in order to construct their own health knowledge and, subsequently, communicate accurate information to their constituents. Understanding the ways that these professionals navigate their roles as health communicators are important for contributing to public discourse about how health knowledge is created …
Pasteurization And Its Discontents: Raw Milk, Risk, And The Reshaping Of The Dairy Industry, Andrea M. Suozzo
Pasteurization And Its Discontents: Raw Milk, Risk, And The Reshaping Of The Dairy Industry, Andrea M. Suozzo
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Milk is something many Americans consume every day, whether over cereal, in coffee or in a cup; as yogurt, cream, cheese or butter. The vast majority of that milk is pasteurized, or heated to the point where much of the bacteria in the milk dies. Pasteurization both slows spoilage of the milk and eliminates potentially harmful bacteria. The fact that we call heat-treated dairy simply "milk" is a testament to pasteurization's widespread proliferation over the past century. Prior to the 1900s, "milk" was raw and unheated, and pasteurized milk was a radically new technology. My research delved into understandings of …