Farmers sometimes get a little upset at how their livelihoods are depicted in urban media and on the Internet. They feel their side of the story isn’t being told, which leads consumers to have unfair or incomplete notions of food and farming.
For the most part, farmers are too busy farming and often, activist groups are leading sources for journalists – because they’re available, accessible and eager to tell their tale.
Dan Murphy, a journalist and agricultural consultant from Washington State, will be in Guelph next week to discuss tactics that farmers can use to communicate about the issues of the day, be it animals, crop protection, biotechnology or food choices.
Murphy, founder of the food industry news publication “the meatingplace.com”, is no stranger to defending and demystifying agriculture, having worked for the American Meat Institute and Meat Marketing and Technology magazine.
If you’d like to hear Murphy’s presentation – to be held March 12 as part of the AGCare/Ontario Farm Animal Council annual meeting and speakers’ program – you can buy your ticket online at www.ofac.org or call 519-837-1326.
