{"id":1868,"date":"2013-03-29T15:08:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2013-03-29T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:08:21","slug":"its-about-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/its-about-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s about time…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….safe food advocates are turning their fire on President Obama and Congressional Democrats for their “patty cake” deal with Monsanto.\u00a0 With all the talk about sequestration, the powers-that-be made sure last week that the dollars keep rolling to the chemical giant.<\/p>\n

Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski snuck the pro-genetically engineered language into a massive continuing resolution and it sailed through, apparently without anyone noticing the amendment.\u00a0 At least, that’s what they’re all saying on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.kmov.com\/news\/local\/Critics-slam-Obama-for-protecting-Monsanto-200599011.html<\/a><\/p>\n

We note that while Monsanto’s relationship with the Obama Administration could be described as “incestuous”, it’s only closer in degree from past Republican administrations.\u00a0 Last we knew, at least three former Monsanto executives are on the White House payroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….safe food advocates are turning their fire on President Obama and Congressional Democrats for their “patty cake” deal with Monsanto.\u00a0 With all the talk about sequestration, the powers-that-be made sure last week that the dollars keep rolling to the chemical giant. Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski snuck the pro-genetically engineered language into a massive continuing resolution and it sailed through, apparently without anyone noticing the amendment.\u00a0 At least, that’s what they’re all saying on Capitol Hill. http:\/\/www.kmov.com\/news\/local\/Critics-slam-Obama-for-protecting-Monsanto-200599011.html We note that while Monsanto’s relationship with the Obama Administration could be described as “incestuous”, it’s only closer in degree from past Republican administrations.\u00a0 Last we knew, at least three former Monsanto executives are on the White House payroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,46,27,9,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-gmo","category-government","category-health","category-monsanto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}