{"id":2267,"date":"2013-06-11T07:09:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:11:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:11:49","slug":"why-we-do-what-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/why-we-do-what-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we do what we do…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….because we love it, of course.\u00a0 But also because we’re appalled by the quality of food Americans consume and want to do a little bit to resist the tide.\u00a0 The people we know raising everything from organic lettuce to grass fed beef have pretty much the same quixotic attitude.<\/p>\n

We know we’re a “drop in the bucket”….we know there are easier, more profitable ways to do what we’re doing….but taking a stand is worth it.<\/p>\n

Sometimes we become bores on the subject.\u00a0 I manage to contain myself on that score\u00a0better than Wooz.\u00a0 There she was at a party the other night showing pictures of our cows and lecturing on the health benefits of grass fed beef.\u00a0 A bit rude since the host had just spent a lot of money on a huge roast.<\/p>\n

So, not to be a bore, but here in a nutshell is\u00a0the problem.\u00a0 (Thanks to Bill Roberts for the link)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/06\/11\/modern-food-nutritional-content.aspx?e_cid=20130611_DNL_art_2&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art2&utm_campaign=20130611<\/a><\/p>\n

Wonder if the obesity epidemic…generally linked to the huge amount of sugar in our food…might also be due to bodies desperately eating, trying to find adequate nutrition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….because we love it, of course.\u00a0 But also because we’re appalled by the quality of food Americans consume and want to do a little bit to resist the tide.\u00a0 The people we know raising everything from organic lettuce to grass fed beef have pretty much the same quixotic attitude. We know we’re a “drop in the bucket”….we know there are easier, more profitable ways to do what we’re doing….but taking a stand is worth it. Sometimes we become bores on the subject.\u00a0 I manage to contain myself on that score\u00a0better than Wooz.\u00a0 There she was at a party the other night showing pictures of our cows and lecturing on the health benefits of grass fed beef.\u00a0 A bit rude since the host had just spent a lot of money on a huge roast. So, not to be a bore, but here in a nutshell is\u00a0the problem.\u00a0 (Thanks to Bill Roberts for the link) http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/06\/11\/modern-food-nutritional-content.aspx?e_cid=20130611_DNL_art_2&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art2&utm_campaign=20130611 Wonder if the obesity epidemic…generally linked to the huge amount of sugar in our food…might also be due to bodies desperately eating, trying to find adequate nutrition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,46,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-gmo","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}