{"id":2570,"date":"2013-09-15T07:12:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T11:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2013-09-15T07:12:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T11:12:21","slug":"myth-busting-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/myth-busting-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth busting – Part 2…."},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time we’re asked why we’re not organic….”just” grass fed.<\/p>\n

Well, for openers I don’t want the government approving or disapproving of what I choose to eat.\u00a0 I can’t think of any personal freedom more important than that.\u00a0 But beyond that, you can farm “organically” and still do terrible things to your cows, your land and yourself…..and the consumer is none the wiser.\u00a0 The label, he thinks, tells him all he needs to know.\u00a0 Reassured, he goes on to other worries.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the “idea” of organic has been corrupted by the usual alliance between the government and big business, including Big Ag.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cornucopia.org\/USDA\/OrganicWatergateWhitePaper.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d like to comment:\u00a0 “there oughta be a law”….but of course there are lots of them….and of regulations.\u00a0 All designed to block the few producers who are trying to raise and market food the healthy way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From time to time we’re asked why we’re not organic….”just” grass fed. Well, for openers I don’t want the government approving or disapproving of what I choose to eat.\u00a0 I can’t think of any personal freedom more important than that.\u00a0 But beyond that, you can farm “organically” and still do terrible things to your cows, your land and yourself…..and the consumer is none the wiser.\u00a0 The label, he thinks, tells him all he needs to know.\u00a0 Reassured, he goes on to other worries. Meanwhile, the “idea” of organic has been corrupted by the usual alliance between the government and big business, including Big Ag. http:\/\/www.cornucopia.org\/USDA\/OrganicWatergateWhitePaper.pdf I’d like to comment:\u00a0 “there oughta be a law”….but of course there are lots of them….and of regulations.\u00a0 All designed to block the few producers who are trying to raise and market food the healthy way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","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=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}