{"id":3377,"date":"2014-05-08T06:57:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T10:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2014-05-08T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T21:04:35","slug":"difference-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/difference-make\/","title":{"rendered":"What difference does it make?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not switching subjects.\u00a0 But the New York Times food columnist, Mark Bittman, makes some interesting points about organic farming, GMOs, and eating healthfully. There is a lot of hysteria among the &#8220;foodies&#8221; and Bittman makes the point that the alarm over GMO would better be focused on antibiotics which are demonstrably a real threat&#8230;.and sail along untouched in Big Ag. You have to wade through some typical New York Times biases but it&#8217;s worth reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/07\/opinion\/bittman-leave-organic-out-of-it.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Africa&amp;module=MostEmailed&amp;version=Full&amp;region=Marginalia&amp;src=me&amp;pgtype=article&amp;_r=0\">www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/07\/opinion\/bittman-leave-organic-out-of-it.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Africa&amp;module=MostEmailed&amp;version=Full&amp;region=Marginalia&amp;src=me&amp;pgtype=article&amp;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not switching subjects.\u00a0 But the New York Times food columnist, Mark Bittman, makes some interesting points about organic farming, GMOs, and eating healthfully. There is a lot of hysteria among the &#8220;foodies&#8221; and Bittman makes the point that the alarm over GMO would better be focused on antibiotics which are demonstrably a real threat&#8230;.and sail along untouched in Big Ag. You have to wade through some typical New York Times biases but it&#8217;s worth reading. www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/07\/opinion\/bittman-leave-organic-out-of-it.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Africa&amp;module=MostEmailed&amp;version=Full&amp;region=Marginalia&amp;src=me&amp;pgtype=article&amp;_r=0<\/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-3377","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\/3377","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=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}