{"id":1046,"date":"2009-11-26T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2009-11-26T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T15:14:13","slug":"farmers-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/26\/farmers-and-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers and freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Thanksgiving, and despite the ongoing drudgery of the world&#8217;s weirdest &#8220;recession,&#8221; let&#8217;s tip our hats to the guys who keep us in calories &#8211; farmers. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/environment\/2009\/11\/24\/joel-salatin-advocates-a-better-way-to-raise-food\/\">&#8220;What Americans do to pigs, chickens, and cows speaks ill of the nation\u2019s moral health,<\/a>&#8221; says Joel Salatin, who the <em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em> proclaims &#8220;the best, loudest (and only) Christian-libertarian-capitalist-environmentalist-lunatic farmer on the face of planet Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA culture that views its life from [a] manipulative, disrespectful stance will soon view its citizens the same way and other cultures the same way. It\u2019s how we respect the least of these that creates a moral-ethical framework.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amen. Pass the sweet taters!<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Thanksgiving, and despite the ongoing drudgery of the world&#8217;s weirdest &#8220;recession,&#8221; let&#8217;s tip our hats to the guys who keep us in calories &#8211; farmers. &#8220;What Americans do to pigs, chickens, and cows speaks ill of the nation\u2019s moral health,&#8221; says Joel Salatin, who the Christian Science Monitor proclaims &#8220;the best, loudest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}