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Colleen Bradford Krantz
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The “pink slime” debate isn’t about meat.
It’s about culture. We are all so busy looking at how exactly this “lean, finely textured beef” is made that most of us haven’t really talked about much besides the process.
We haven’t talked about how this is one more indication of how so many Americans have little understanding of farms and agricultural business.
And it leaves me wondering if some blogge... read more »
It’s about culture. We are all so busy looking at how exactly this “lean, finely textured beef” is made that most of us haven’t really talked about much besides the process.
We haven’t talked about how this is one more indication of how so many Americans have little understanding of farms and agricultural business.
And it leaves me wondering if some blogge... read more »
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Train To Nowhere: Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation
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location: Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, The United States description: Eleven undocumented immigrants are locked inside a stifling railcar by smugglers and left to die a horrific death when no one comes to release them as promised. The railcar rolls on to the farming community of Denison, Iowa, where newspaper and television reporters descend after the bodies are discovered, all seeking the story behind the deaths. Train to Nowhere - part crime story and part immigration perspective – is an intimate portrait of those connected to the 2002 railcar deaths of eleven C...more |
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Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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