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Article: Iowa's bitter butter battle
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- July 16, 2009
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Jesus OK; Jackson not
The time has come for us to put on the gumboots of journalism and wade into the mucky mire of controversy currently swirling -- which is an extremely difficult thing for a mucky mire to do -- in the U.S. Heartland.
I am referring here to a dispute that has erupted in the state of Iowa, a normally happy, placid place filled with happy, placid people who take justifiable pride in their huge cornfields and legendary dairy products, such as the world-famous butter cow on display every year at the state fair, which runs Aug. 13-23.
But dark clouds of despair swept over the state, about 1,000 kilometres south of where you are reading this newspaper, when fair organizers ...