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Plenty to chew on: Luke Runyon on corporate consolidation in agriculture

An old cartoon shows a small child with a hopeful, questioning face looking up at a perplexed parent holding a gallon jug and stammering, “Um, well, I don’t know the cow’s name, but you need to drink the milk anyway.” The cartoon is funny, but maybe the joke is on us. Harvest Public Media reporter Luke Runyon reports on a trend of consolidation among “big agriculture” companies in this November 2016 essay in Flatland, a digital magazine from Kansas City, Missouri.

Read it here: Runyon, “’Why you should care about ‘big ag’ companies getting bigger”

I read it online: Farhad Manjoo addresses our grip on the truth

“How do I know something is true? Well, I read it online, so it has to be true, right?” How silly. And yet, we’ve probably all said it, at least once. New York Times technology writer Farhad Manjoo examines some of the consequences of our easy access to abundant information (and misinformation) in this pre-election day November 2016 post from the newspaper’s technology blog, State of the Art.

Read it here: Farhad Manjoo: "How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth"