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Mar 13, 2023Liked by Dan Fournier

Canadians will start worrying when they come to discover that their Froot Loop supply might be in jeopardy, and that cricket chitin doesn't taste very good after all.

On a more serious note, this passage is useful to keep in mind:

“Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: "Love. They must do it for love." Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence of animals. They love to work outdoors. They love the weather, maybe even when it is making them miserable. They love to live where they work and to work where they live. If the scale of their farming is small enough, they like to work in the company of their children and with the help of their children. They love the measure of independence that farm life can still provide. I have an idea that a lot of farmers have gone to a lot of trouble merely to be self-employed to live at least a part of their lives without a boss.”

― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

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Dan, I know you write about the sorry state of journalism. Did you see this article about Gannett? The company and its newspapers has been obliterated in the past decade.

Where's real "watchdog" journalism going to come from? Even if journalists did cover taboo topics (which they don't), there's no longer enough of them in newsrooms to devote the time to complex stories and time-consuming investigations.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-scale-of-local-news-destruction-in-gannetts-markets-is-astonishing/

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Thanks, Dan. You are trying to warn a few more people of what's coming (or already happening).

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