Rick Friday was a cartoonist for a small newspaper, the Farm News, that has a 24,000 readership in Iowa. The newspaper is a freebie and covers 34 counties. Mr. Friday recently ran a cartoon that showed two farmers talking over a fence.
Farmer #1 says,”I wish there was more profit in farming.”
Farmer #2 says, “There is. In year 2015 the C.E.Os of Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer and John Deere made more money combined than 2,120 Iowa farmers.”
The newspaper then fired Mr. Friday as its cartoonist. It seems that one of the three companies objected to the cartoon.
The Columbia Journalism Review (<www.cjr.org>) has a good article explaining why this is important. And if you live in the Mahoning Valley area of Carbon County, PA, you should buy your vegetables from Tom Merkel, who does not depend on Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer, or John Deere.
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