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Haiku In The News: Chinese Food

By Linton Weeks
Published June 22, 2013 at 11:11 AM EDT
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee on June 21, 2012, in Washington, D.C.
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Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee on June 21, 2012, in Washington, D.C.

"How much of China

Owning our food supply is

Enough, is too much?"

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), commenting on the proposed sale of Virginia-based Smithfield Foods to Chinese-owned Shuanghui on CNBC, June 20, 2013

(If you find examples of Haiku in the News, please send them to: protojournalist@npr.org. You could win a Protojournalist Prizepak.)

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Linton Weeks
Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.
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