Friday, August 09, 2019

seven out of every ten dollars in agricultural subsidies in the US were going to the top twenty-six companies

Trump  is  fighting  with China  to buy More  Soybeans

 One of the most important stories on American agriculture and
global agriculture sank like a stone, one of the deadliest stories, a great story
done by the Associated Press. It was on how seven out of every ten dollars in
agricultural subsidies in the US were going to the top twenty-six companies
that figured in the Fortune 500. It showed that agricultural subsidies were going to Ted Turner, to David Rockefeller, for rare horticulture, which meant
that Mr. Rockefeller could indulge his garden in Connecticut. It was a devastating story. It showed the extent of misuse, divergence of resources from
the American homestead farmer to the corporate agriculture business. It sank
like a stone, because it came out on 9/11. So, these are not things you can
control. If an issue is important, stay with that issue, stay with that subject.
Sometimes, you are like Scheherazade, telling a story every night to keep your
neck from the guillotine. Sometimes you are like Scheherazade having to tell
the same story differently in order to bring back the importance of it to your
reader. I do not believe I have ever done a story exclusively on the suicides except data stories. All the stories that involve human beings, they start with a
farmer suicide but will go into some other issues affecting the life of that guy
who committed suicide. 

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