{"id":9448,"date":"2012-11-05T13:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=9448"},"modified":"2012-11-05T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:09:29","slug":"recipe-for-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=9448","title":{"rendered":"Recipe for Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

On election day tomorrow, the food movement will learn if it has curdled before living up to its hype<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Managing our global food supply in a sustainable, efficient manner necessarily involves\u00a0allowing\u00a0for both organic and conventional agriculture<\/a>. But a simplistic,\u00a0down-with-industrial-farming chant rings loudly throughout the food movement. Sure, there are legitimate grievances about the corporate conduct of multinational food and agricultural companies. But since when is that unique to big business of any nature? For example, there are compelling social justice issues related to the making of cell phones and sneakers, but I don’t see people demonizing Apple’s or Nike’s technological innovations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Tramadol 50 Mg Price So why is Big Ag different from Big Smartphone or Big Sneaker? \u00a0And why has concern over how the world’s food is grown become so strongly identified with concern over genetically modified crops?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tramadol For Sale Online Have a read<\/a> and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On election day tomorrow, the food movement will learn if it has curdled before living up to its hype. That would be a shame, for its future holds much promise. The growing popularity of farmers’ markets, the ballooning consumer appetite for organic everything, and the increasing attention paid to healthy diets (thanks Michelle Obama!) have… Ambien Buy Online Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2690,2709,2724],"tags":[1059,1094,1126,1322],"class_list":["post-9448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-movement","category-genetic-engineering","category-gmos","tag-food-movement","tag-genetically-modified-food","tag-gmos","tag-michael-pollan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}