{"id":4863,"date":"2016-05-08T07:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T11:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2016-05-08T07:09:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T11:09:48","slug":"im-from-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/im-from-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m from the government&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.and I&#8217;m here to protect you.\u00a0 Not!<\/p>\n<p>Awhile back, grass fed meat producers were making some progress with the government in establishing minimum standards for labeling.\u00a0 Nothing radical; you still weren&#8217;t going to be told whether the meat you ate came from cows fattened on hormones and antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>Well that lasted until grass fed meat passed the 1% point in market share.\u00a0 Then Big Ag (and Big Drugs) teamed up to get rid of the grass fed label.<\/p>\n<p>The same health benefits of grass fed meat are found in grass fed dairy&#8230;and now those dairy farmers are going through the same (futile) process.\u00a0 Health blogger Dr. Joseph Mercola explains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2016\/04\/19\/grass-fed-milk-yogurt-new-label.aspx\">http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2016\/04\/19\/grass-fed-milk-yogurt-new-label.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.and I&#8217;m here to protect you.\u00a0 Not! Awhile back, grass fed meat producers were making some progress with the government in establishing minimum standards for labeling.\u00a0 Nothing radical; you still weren&#8217;t going to be told whether the meat you ate came from cows fattened on hormones and antibiotics. Well that lasted until grass fed meat passed the 1% point in market share.\u00a0 Then Big Ag (and Big Drugs) teamed up to get rid of the grass fed label. The same health benefits of grass fed meat are found in grass fed dairy&#8230;and now those dairy farmers are going through the same (futile) process.\u00a0 Health blogger Dr. Joseph Mercola explains. http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2016\/04\/19\/grass-fed-milk-yogurt-new-label.aspx &nbsp;<\/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-4863","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\/4863","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=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}