{"id":1981,"date":"2013-04-18T06:27:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T10:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2013-04-18T06:28:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T10:28:43","slug":"our-government-here-to-protect-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/our-government-here-to-protect-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Our government, here to protect us…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….The New York Times discovers the antibiotic menace.\u00a0 Of course, years after the problem first surfaced.<\/p>\n

This article is revealing on several accounts:<\/p>\n

First, the most recent warning from the FDA was published in February but no one noticed until a public\u00a0service group publicized it.\u00a0 The government didn’t do much to spread the word.<\/p>\n

Second, the inevitable professor of agriculture at a major university—Minnesota—jumps in to defend Big Ag.<\/p>\n

Third, the prof lets the cat out of the bag.\u00a0 The antibiotics are used to “keep cows healthy”…not to cure a sick cow.\u00a0 A cow on pasture is as healthy a creature as there is.\u00a0 It is only when you feed them grain, confine them, and otherwise treat them unnaturally that they get sick.\u00a0 The antibiotics are required as a preventative.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/17\/business\/report-on-us-meat-sounds-alarm-on-superbugs.html?ref=business&_r=1<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Ed Taylor for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….The New York Times discovers the antibiotic menace.\u00a0 Of course, years after the problem first surfaced. This article is revealing on several accounts: First, the most recent warning from the FDA was published in February but no one noticed until a public\u00a0service group publicized it.\u00a0 The government didn’t do much to spread the word. Second, the inevitable professor of agriculture at a major university—Minnesota—jumps in to defend Big Ag. Third, the prof lets the cat out of the bag.\u00a0 The antibiotics are used to “keep cows healthy”…not to cure a sick cow.\u00a0 A cow on pasture is as healthy a creature as there is.\u00a0 It is only when you feed them grain, confine them, and otherwise treat them unnaturally that they get sick.\u00a0 The antibiotics are required as a preventative. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/17\/business\/report-on-us-meat-sounds-alarm-on-superbugs.html?ref=business&_r=1 Thanks to Ed Taylor for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government","category-health","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","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=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}