Taking a quick moment out of final plans for the AFHVS/ASFS
conference (gaaaaaack!) (but can't wait to see you who are coming!)
to send you a note I've been meaning to send for over a week.
The May 26-June 8 issue of /In These Times/ has as its cover story:
"What's on the corporate menu?"
Stories include mad pig disease, overfishing, exploitation of
Central American produce workers, "the end of the family dairy
farm," and USDA bias against black farmers.
ITT is a highly progressive/populist news magazine published in
Chicago. They've done exemplary investigative reporting for as long
as I've read them (since the mid 70s). And while they take a
realistic, sometimes bleak look at the economic and social conditions
of our time, they always point to grass-roots efforts to improve
things. Empowerment.
I was also interested to see an ad for Osha Gray Davidson's /Broken
Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto/ (new edition, U of IA
Press).
FY general I.
peace
michele
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Michele Gale-Sinex, communications manager
Center for Integrated Ag Systems
UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences
Voice: (608) 262-8018 FAX: (608) 265-3020
http://www.wisc.edu/cias/
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