{"id":3028,"date":"2013-12-21T08:22:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T13:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2013-12-21T08:22:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T13:22:04","slug":"im-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/im-government\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m from the government….."},"content":{"rendered":"

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…and I’m here to protect you.\u00a0 Not!<\/p>\n

The USDA is announcing a plan to open our markets to cattle and beef from Brazil….despite the fact that that country is plagued by Foot and Mouth Disease…the most deadly disease that can infect cattle.<\/p>\n

Apparently the plan is to chop down the prices US cattlemen have been getting for beef.\u00a0 Brazil’s herd\u00a0is about three times the size of the American herd, so this should do it.\u00a0 Thanks to Bill Roberts for this link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/r-calfusa.com\/news_releases\/2013\/131220-Brazil.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

When they get here, the meat and live animals will presumably be inspected by the same crack teams that have passed these chickens.\u00a0 (not to mention all the recalled American beef)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/39-superbug-39-bacteria-widespread-u-chicken-consumer-110312717–sector.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Continuing our theme:\u00a0 we’re in good hands with the government watching over our food supply, there’s this:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.khou.com\/news\/health\/Food-fraud-a-growing-problem-in-grocery-stores-236733491.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  …and I’m here to protect you.\u00a0 Not! The USDA is announcing a plan to open our markets to cattle and beef from Brazil….despite the fact that that country is plagued by Foot and Mouth Disease…the most deadly disease that can infect cattle. Apparently the plan is to chop down the prices US cattlemen have been getting for beef.\u00a0 Brazil’s herd\u00a0is about three times the size of the American herd, so this should do it.\u00a0 Thanks to Bill Roberts for this link: http:\/\/r-calfusa.com\/news_releases\/2013\/131220-Brazil.htm When they get here, the meat and live animals will presumably be inspected by the same crack teams that have passed these chickens.\u00a0 (not to mention all the recalled American beef) http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/39-superbug-39-bacteria-widespread-u-chicken-consumer-110312717–sector.html Continuing our theme:\u00a0 we’re in good hands with the government watching over our food supply, there’s this: http:\/\/www.khou.com\/news\/health\/Food-fraud-a-growing-problem-in-grocery-stores-236733491.html<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","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=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}