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 …

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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 …

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