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To make a standardized product at the least cost, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) crowd livestock into confined spaces and rely on technology and antibiotics to keep production high. Kelley Snowden uses images from CAFOs and our human "habitat" to ask whether we treat people about the same as we treat our meat animals.

And on Super Bowl Sunday, Dodge needed to sell some pickup trucks. So Dodge made a farmer myth, with a little help from radio commentator Paul Harvey. Alan Guebert looks at the reality of both 21st century farming and the broadcaster.

'Somewhere that night, between consciousness and dreaming, I told myself that Logan County was a microcosm of Kentucky, maybe even of the world. There was no bigger job than the one I had.'