{"id":2424,"date":"2013-07-24T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2013-07-24T10:46:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T14:46:23","slug":"were-from-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/were-from-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re from the government…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….and we’re here to help you.\u00a0 Not.<\/p>\n

For the small farmer, government is the gift that keeps on taking.\u00a0 Now the bureaucrats have come up with a whole bunch of new regulations which, boiled down, threaten “to destroy” some operations.\u00a0 Not my words.\u00a0 A former USDA exec.<\/p>\n

What the government wants is more reports…just what it needs…more paperwork.\u00a0 Of course that means more bureaucrats and more ways we can make a mistake on a form and get a fine.\u00a0 Just doing it right—which they will intentionally make difficult—will cost Thistle Hill almost $5000!\u00a0 Here’s the story:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.iowafarmertoday.com\/news\/opinion\/proposed-regs-threaten-local-food\/article_d7dba40c-eefa-11e2-8dc5-0019bb2963f4.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the torment continues for that Wisconsin farmer who dared to sell raw milk off his farm.\u00a0 A jury may have acquitted him of all but a technicality, and he’s now no longer facing jail time, but the Food Police are still chasing him.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/07\/16\/ftcldf-appeals-raw-milk-case.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….and we’re here to help you.\u00a0 Not. For the small farmer, government is the gift that keeps on taking.\u00a0 Now the bureaucrats have come up with a whole bunch of new regulations which, boiled down, threaten “to destroy” some operations.\u00a0 Not my words.\u00a0 A former USDA exec. What the government wants is more reports…just what it needs…more paperwork.\u00a0 Of course that means more bureaucrats and more ways we can make a mistake on a form and get a fine.\u00a0 Just doing it right—which they will intentionally make difficult—will cost Thistle Hill almost $5000!\u00a0 Here’s the story: http:\/\/www.iowafarmertoday.com\/news\/opinion\/proposed-regs-threaten-local-food\/article_d7dba40c-eefa-11e2-8dc5-0019bb2963f4.html Meanwhile, the torment continues for that Wisconsin farmer who dared to sell raw milk off his farm.\u00a0 A jury may have acquitted him of all but a technicality, and he’s now no longer facing jail time, but the Food Police are still chasing him. http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/07\/16\/ftcldf-appeals-raw-milk-case.aspx<\/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-2424","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\/2424","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=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}