{"id":231,"date":"2007-02-19T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/food-safety"},"modified":"2011-05-17T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T16:56:42","slug":"food-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/food-safety","title":{"rendered":"Food safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eeks <\/p>\n<p>This has been a week of &quot;bad&quot; food news. Bad peanut butter, bad cooked packaged chicken breasts, tainted cantaloupe and recalled bad baby food are all in the news this week.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m glad I am older and eat my supplements &#8230; food is undergoing a serious challenge these years. We have few family farms and the big conglomerates own the farm land, mass produce unhealthy &quot;stuff&quot; by over using fertilizer, pick the &quot;stuff&quot; before it is ripe, ship it off to far away places&#8230;and then tell us it&#39;s good for us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Field ripened food is the food that contains the good things we need &#8211; ripening with chemicals or in the truck does not make for good nutrition. Have you ever noticed what the birds and bugs eat from your garden? It&#39;s the ripened things &#8211; the unripened stuff is not even attractive to the pests. My dog awaits ripe strawberries before he goes to the plants &#8211; only then do I have to put up a barricade to keep him away&#8230;he knows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#39;s fruit has so little nutrition value we would need to eat 53 peaches today to get the nutritional value of what we got from 2 peaches back in 1951!<\/p>\n<p>The more we process the farms and the food, the less nutritious the food, or the more contaminated it is&#8230;and &quot;they&quot; want us to eat genetically modified food? Trust the big food corporations? Not me&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eeks This has been a week of &quot;bad&quot; food news. Bad peanut butter, bad cooked packaged chicken breasts, tainted cantaloupe and recalled bad baby food are all in the news this week. I&#39;m glad I am older and eat my supplements &#8230; food is undergoing a serious challenge these years. We have few family farms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[248,264,265],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-parenting","tag-food","tag-loss-of-family-farms","tag-recalls","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}