The song goes on at 1100 livestock auctions in the U.S.. But these bastions of competitive marketing are under siege; a system of 'captive supply' is gaining a monopoly over what we eat.
Louisiana farmers have been calling their super-sweet sweet potatoes "yams," casting a nation into doubt and confusion. Chuck Shuford sets us straight.
Land is being bought up, consolidated. Ted Turner owns a good chunk of Nebraska. Newspapers, too, are being gobbled by ever larger chains of ownership, from the local weekly to The Wall Street Journal. Now we don't know where our food or our news is coming from.