{"id":2352,"date":"2013-06-25T05:57:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T09:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2013-06-25T05:58:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T09:58:28","slug":"none-dare-call-it-big-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/none-dare-call-it-big-ag\/","title":{"rendered":"None dare call it Big Ag&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.or Big Government, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>The giant hog farms are in the midst of a desperate struggle to save their piglet crop.\u00a0 Reuters is reporting a devastating virus has now hit about 200 farms in a dozen states and is spreading.\u00a0 No one is estimating how many piglets have died but the mortality rate is apparently about 50%.<\/p>\n<p>Bigger pigs are affected too&#8230;.and while they really don&#8217;t have a handle on the situation&#8230;.the folks in the government are quickly assuring us that pork is safe to eat.\u00a0 Whatever their other sins, the members of the Unholy Alliance has its press releases close at hand.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/06\/24\/us-usa-hogs-virus-spreads-idUSBRE95N1DR20130624\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/06\/24\/us-usa-hogs-virus-spreads-idUSBRE95N1DR20130624<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Industrial Ag raises pigs in this country as it raises chickens: in big confinement barns.\u00a0 Huge amounts of antibiotics are fed in an only partly-successful effort to keep the animals alive.\u00a0 But once in awhile things get out of hand.\u00a0 Like now.<\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t it just the other day that Smithfield, in announcing its sale to a Chinese company, said the Chinese shared Smithfield&#8217;s commitment to quality, healthy pork? \u00a0We note that this same disease has killed millions of Chinese piglets in their quality, healthy factory farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.or Big Government, for that matter. The giant hog farms are in the midst of a desperate struggle to save their piglet crop.\u00a0 Reuters is reporting a devastating virus has now hit about 200 farms in a dozen states and is spreading.\u00a0 No one is estimating how many piglets have died but the mortality rate is apparently about 50%. Bigger pigs are affected too&#8230;.and while they really don&#8217;t have a handle on the situation&#8230;.the folks in the government are quickly assuring us that pork is safe to eat.\u00a0 Whatever their other sins, the members of the Unholy Alliance has its press releases close at hand.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the link: http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/06\/24\/us-usa-hogs-virus-spreads-idUSBRE95N1DR20130624 Industrial Ag raises pigs in this country as it raises chickens: in big confinement barns.\u00a0 Huge amounts of antibiotics are fed in an only partly-successful effort to keep the animals alive.\u00a0 But once in awhile things get out of hand.\u00a0 Like now. Wasn&#8217;t it just the other day that Smithfield, in announcing its sale to a Chinese company, said the Chinese shared Smithfield&#8217;s commitment to quality, healthy pork? \u00a0We note that this same disease has killed millions of Chinese piglets in their quality, healthy factory farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-pigs-2","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","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=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}