{"id":2161,"date":"2013-05-24T10:47:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2013-05-24T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:47:02","slug":"laugh-or-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/laugh-or-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Laugh or cry…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….or both.\u00a0 Hard to decide.\u00a0 Those folks at the guvmint who are “here to help you” are giving meat labels a “face lift”.\u00a0 The reporter passes on the assurance that this is intended to protect us unsuspecting consumers.<\/p>\n

The change:\u00a0 the labels on steaks will be changed to designate the country of origin and the country of slaughter.\u00a0 That’s better.<\/p>\n

Not what the animal was fed of course.\u00a0 Certainly not whether it’s been raised on genetically modified grain.\u00a0 Or what they injected it with or sprayed on it.\u00a0 Nothing at all on that package of hamburger.\u00a0 Of course, no label would be large enough to list all the countries that supplied whatever it is in that pound of burger.<\/p>\n

Here’s the story.\u00a0 It’s nice to know I have a pound of absolutely pure Thistle Hill burger in the refrigerator for lunch!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-500395_162-57586029\/meat-labels-getting-facelift-under-new-usda-rules\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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….or both.\u00a0 Hard to decide.\u00a0 Those folks at the guvmint who are “here to help you” are giving meat labels a “face lift”.\u00a0 The reporter passes on the assurance that this is intended to protect us unsuspecting consumers. The change:\u00a0 the labels on steaks will be changed to designate the country of origin and the country of slaughter.\u00a0 That’s better. Not what the animal was fed of course.\u00a0 Certainly not whether it’s been raised on genetically modified grain.\u00a0 Or what they injected it with or sprayed on it.\u00a0 Nothing at all on that package of hamburger.\u00a0 Of course, no label would be large enough to list all the countries that supplied whatever it is in that pound of burger. Here’s the story.\u00a0 It’s nice to know I have a pound of absolutely pure Thistle Hill burger in the refrigerator for lunch! http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-500395_162-57586029\/meat-labels-getting-facelift-under-new-usda-rules\/  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","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=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}