{"id":2212,"date":"2013-05-29T07:58:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2013-05-29T07:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:59:48","slug":"were-in-the-best-of-hands-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/were-in-the-best-of-hands-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re in the best of hands&#8230;.2 &#038; 3&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.two more articles from our old friend Dr. Joseph Mercola (well, I don&#8217;t know him\u00a0but he&#8217;s never complained about all the stuff I steal from him so he must be a friend).\u00a0 Starting again: to follow up two current threads:\u00a0 can we trust Big Government and the people who supply our food and can we work with Europe to help protect us.<\/p>\n<p>First, when it comes to Europe, guess who&#8217;s gotten there before us?\u00a0 Oh, you must have been paying attention.\u00a0 There&#8217;s now an international do-gooder association that is going to protect us.\u00a0 Hard to find just who&#8217;s behind this group\u00a0but Dr. Mercola did the digging and they include (surprise!) Monsanto.\u00a0 Six of the seats on the board belong to Monsanto and DuPont.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/05\/29\/codex-front-groups.aspx\">http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/05\/29\/codex-front-groups.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Europe is,\u00a0however, ahead of us in dealing with some of the worst practices of our Big Ag.\u00a0 Dr. Mercola details 9 areas our own &#8220;protectors&#8221; are blase about that won&#8217;t fly on this side of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/05\/29\/dangerous-food-practices.aspx\">http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/05\/29\/dangerous-food-practices.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.two more articles from our old friend Dr. Joseph Mercola (well, I don&#8217;t know him\u00a0but he&#8217;s never complained about all the stuff I steal from him so he must be a friend).\u00a0 Starting again: to follow up two current threads:\u00a0 can we trust Big Government and the people who supply our food and can we work with Europe to help protect us. First, when it comes to Europe, guess who&#8217;s gotten there before us?\u00a0 Oh, you must have been paying attention.\u00a0 There&#8217;s now an international do-gooder association that is going to protect us.\u00a0 Hard to find just who&#8217;s behind this group\u00a0but Dr. Mercola did the digging and they include (surprise!) Monsanto.\u00a0 Six of the seats on the board belong to Monsanto and DuPont. http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/05\/29\/codex-front-groups.aspx Europe is,\u00a0however, ahead of us in dealing with some of the worst practices of our Big Ag.\u00a0 Dr. Mercola details 9 areas our own &#8220;protectors&#8221; are blase about that won&#8217;t fly on this side of the ocean. http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/05\/29\/dangerous-food-practices.aspx &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,46,27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-gmo","category-government","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","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=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}