• Promoting youth education & preserving Western heritage
• Growing baby beef show educates, entertains: 1938 to 1956
• Expanding fair and rodeo in cramped quarters: 1957 to 1979
• Building a new home: 1980 to 1989
• Dreaming beyond Travis County: 1990 to 1999
• Ramping up statewide and facing new challenges: 2000 to 2011
• Directors emeriti
• Show leaders
• Grand champion winners and buyers
• About the research.

Who would have dreamed that a one-day calf show would evolve into a top-five professional rodeo that raises millions of dollars for education? From its beginnings as a tiny 4-H event to its current role as one of Austin's largest charities, the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo has grown in both size and purpose in the past seventy-five years.Here, Liz Carmack tells the story of Rodeo Austin, a nonprofit enterprise whose face reflects its agricultural heritage but whose scholarship program is at the heart of its mission. Since 1981, when organizers became fully committed to providing college scholarships, millions of dollars have been raised through a year-long fundraising effort including a sporting clay tournament, golf tournament, wine tasting and gala. The year culminates in March with the organization's signature event known as Rodeo Austin - sixteen days of non-stop events, including a livestock show, fair, rodeo, and concerts. Over the years, dedication and hard work, an ever expanding cast of participants and volunteers, many benefactors, and changes in name and venue have served the organization well. In 2011, the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo welcomed more than 300,000 attendees and awarded $442,000 in college scholarships plus more than $1.5 million in additional funds to Texas youth.Fans of rodeo everywhere, and especially anyone who has attended Rodeo Austin-"Where Weird Meets Western"-will come away from Rodeo Austin: Blue Ribbons, Buckin' Broncs, and Big Dreams with a new appreciation of the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo and its dual mission of promoting youth education and preserving Western heritage.
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• Promoting youth education & preserving Western heritage
• Growing baby beef show educates, entertains: 1938 to 1956
• Expanding fair and rodeo in cramped quarters: 1957 to 1979
• Building a new home: 1980 to 1989
• Dreaming beyond Travis County: 1990 to 1999
• Ramping up statewide and facing new challenges: 2000 to 2011
• Directors emeriti
• Show leaders
• Grand champion winners and buyers
• About the research.

Who would have dreamed that a one-day calf show would evolve into a top-five professional rodeo that raises millions of dollars for education? From its beginnings as a tiny 4-H event to its current role as one of Austin's largest charities, the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo has grown in both size and purpose in the past seventy-five years.Here, Liz Carmack tells the story of Rodeo Austin, a nonprofit enterprise whose face reflects its agricultural heritage but whose scholarship program is at the heart of its mission. Since 1981, when organizers became fully committed to providing college scholarships, millions of dollars have been raised through a year-long fundraising effort including a sporting clay tournament, golf tournament, wine tasting and gala. The year culminates in March with the organization's signature event known as Rodeo Austin - sixteen days of non-stop events, including a livestock show, fair, rodeo, and concerts. Over the years, dedication and hard work, an ever expanding cast of participants and volunteers, many benefactors, and changes in name and venue have served the organization well. In 2011, the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo welcomed more than 300,000 attendees and awarded $442,000 in college scholarships plus more than $1.5 million in additional funds to Texas youth.Fans of rodeo everywhere, and especially anyone who has attended Rodeo Austin-"Where Weird Meets Western"-will come away from Rodeo Austin: Blue Ribbons, Buckin' Broncs, and Big Dreams with a new appreciation of the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo and its dual mission of promoting youth education and preserving Western heritage.
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• List of plates List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface List of abbreviations I. Introduction and historical overview
• 1. From mayhem to meaning: an introduction to the cultural meaning of the 2001 outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in the UK - Martin Doring and Brigitte Nerlich
• 2. The historical roots of FMD control in Britain, 1839-2001 - Abigail Woods II. Experiences expressed
• 3. Farmers/writers: 'They may be experts but they know nowt' - Pamela Sandiford
• 4. Farmers: FMD and the abuse of democratic process - Susan Atkinson
• 5. Media: FMD in the West Country and the role of the Western Morning News - Barrie Williams
• 6. Artists and photographers: trembling representations - picturing FMD - Michael Madden (artwork) and Ian Geering (photography) III. Experiences analysed
• 7. Farmers and valuers: divisions and divisiveness and the social cost of FMD - a sociological analysis of FMD in one locality - Sam Hillyard
• 8. Churches: the response of local churches to FMD - Lewis Burton
• 9. Children: 'Mary had a little lamb...' - trauma, stress and coping during the 2001 FMD crisis, as seen through the medium of children's poems - Martin Doring IV. Experiences, contexts, analysis
• 10. Biosecurity: biosecurity and idyllic England in millennial Britain - Samantha Twigg Johnson
• 11. Life changes: altered lifescapes - Ian Convery, Cathy Bailey, Maggie Mort and Josephine Baxter
• 12. Technology: FMD 2001 - lessons emerging from county council websites - Briony Oates
• 13. Technology: the information and social needs of Cumbrian farmers during the UK 2001 FMD outbreak and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) - Chris Hagar
• 14. Media: conceptualising Foot and Mouth Disease - the socio-cultural role of metaphors, frames and narratives - Brigitte Nerlich
• 15. Rumour: viral cows and viral culture? Towards an explanation of rumour in the 2001 UK outbreak of FMD - Nick Wright and Brigitte Nerlich
• 16. Disaster: a further species of trouble? Disaster and narrative - John Law and Vicky Singleton V. Epilogue
• 17. Speaking truth to power: Foot and Mouth and the future of agriculture and its communities - Jules Pretty Index.
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The 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic in the UK, during which millions of animals were culled over a nine-month period, had a devastating and long-lasting impact on individuals and communities. In 2002 the European Parliament noted that policymakers need to have a better understanding of the social and psychological impact of such events on adults and children, on farmers and non-farmers. Although many studies about FMD have been published since 2001, this is the first to offer a detailed examination of the various ways in which the outbreak affected the fabric of rural life and rural culture across classes and across generations. Drawing on the experiences of farmers, the media, artists, writers, children and churches, this collection provides a space for academic inquiry, political and poetic reflection and artistic expression.
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• Foreword: A Note on Martin Kaplan -Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior Preface -Joan Hendricks Introduction: Setting the Scene -Alan M. Kelly PART I. THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE FOR VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH
• 1. What Will the Future Bring, and How Can We Prepare for It? -Greg W. BeVier
• 2. Globalization: What Caused It, and How Will It End? -Stephen J. Kobrin
• 3. The Livestock Revolution and the Developing World -Cornelis de Haan and Henning P. Steinfeld
• 4. Technology, Innovation, Research, and Development -David T. Galligan and Edward Kanara
• 5. Animal Welfare in Livestock Production: Implications for Producers, Consumers, and Public Health -Paul B. Thompson
• 6. Animal Plagues: The Political and Economic Consequences of Nonzoonotic Animal Diseases -Gary Smith PART II. THE FOOD INDUSTRY
• 7. The Global Food Industry -David Harlan and Candace Jacobs
• 8. Farming the Sea: The Revolution in Aquaculture -Richard Langan
• 9. Creating Risk: Antibiotic Resistance -Shelley Rankin and Sandra Cointreau PART III. EMERGING THREATS
• 10. The Changing Epidemiology of Avian Influenza -Ilaria Capua, D. J. Alexander, Bruce A. Rideout, and Martin Vincent
• 11. Wildlife Zoonoses: Emerging and Reemerging Zoonoses from Wildlife Reservoirs -Bruno B. Chomel
• 12. Monkeypox: A Threat to the United States? -Darin S. Carroll
• 13. Bat Zoonoses: The Realities -Chuck Rupprecht, Lin-Fa Wang, and Leslie A. Real PART IV. NATIONAL AND GLOBAL RESPONSES
• 14. International Efforts at Detection and Control -Francois-Xavier Meslin and Corrie Brown
• 15. The Public Health Workforce -Hugh Mainzer
• 16. The Task Ahead -Alan M. Kelly Contributors Index.
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At the end of the nineteenth century, the health and productivity of the livestock and poultry industries and the safety of foods of animal origin in the United States were severely compromised by infectious diseases. Bovine tuberculosis was a widespread and significant food safety hazard, with large numbers of human TB cases caused by contaminated milk. Texas fever, foot and mouth disease, brucellosis, glanders, trichinosis, and fowl plague challenged both animal and human health. Government intervention in veterinary public health made great strides during the first half of the twentieth century, however, and the U.S. food supply was proclaimed to be the safest in the world. In the countries of the developing world, infectious diseases of animals and humans remain prevalent and pose serious threats to a globalized society, in which the health status of animals in one nation is directly linked to the health status of animal and human populations throughout the world. The problems and their solutions are immensely complex and difficult and extend well beyond the challenges of controlling infectious diseases. As a result, those involved in the food industry, and especially veterinarians, face the question, "Is it possible to feed a burgeoning world population while respecting the welfare of livestock and poultry, containing the spread of disease, and managing the Earth's natural resources?" In Food Security in a Global Economy, contributors from across the globe and from a range of disciplines-veterinarians, public health officials, researchers, scholars, and industry experts-provide analysis and cutting-edge research. From the spread of avian influenza to the burgeoning problems associated with more affluent and urbanizing populations in the developing world, Food Security in a Global Economy provides a comprehensive overview of the issues that form the central challenge for veterinary medicine in the twenty-first century.
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