{"id":5,"date":"2012-06-10T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2012-06-10T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T15:33:43","slug":"the-fdas-powers-are-increasing-and-farmers-should-be-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"The FDA\u2019s powers are increasing and farmers should be worried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA\u2019s powers are increasing and farmers should be worried<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacklistednews.com\/The_FDA\u2019s_powers_are_increasing_and_farmers_should_be_worried\/19874\/0\/38\/38\/Y\/M.html\" title=\"farmers\" target=\"_blank\">Read Original Here at www.blacklistednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 8, 2012<\/p>\n<p>With all of the raids the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conducted on small and Amish farm owners over recent years, where is some of the outcry from our senators and representatives to preserve the backbone of the nation\u2019s food supply?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong>\u00a0Keep in mind, we\u2019re talking about the FDA here, the same agency which allegedly<a href=\"http:\/\/endthelie.com\/2012\/01\/30\/fda-sued-for-allegedly-spying-on-whistleblowers-personal-e-mails\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0spies upon its employees when they blow the whistle<\/a>\u00a0on corrupt and dangerous devices being approved. Furthermore, the entire federal government has become\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/endthelie.com\/2012\/04\/18\/18-venn-diagrams-showing-how-corrupted-american-democracy-really-is\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">so incredibly intertwined with the industries they are supposed to regulate<\/a>, it has almost become a joke. One of the most blatant and disturbing examples is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/endthelie.com\/2012\/02\/21\/white-house-blocking-release-of-monsanto-linked-lobbyists-email\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Obama White House blocking the release of a memo from a Monsanto-linked lobbyist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the answer is practically nonexistent as the abuse is running rampant and it is probably not going to stop any time soon thanks to a law that was passed by the FDA and signed by President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The following is the FDA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/NewsEvents\/Newsroom\/PressAnnouncements\/ucm253983.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">official press release<\/a>\u00a0on the subject:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;snip&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA\u2019s powers are increasing and farmers should be worried Read Original Here at www.blacklistednews.com June 8, 2012 With all of the raids the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conducted on small and Amish farm owners over recent years, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/?p=5\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jMAM-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yardeats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}