{"id":1499,"date":"2016-04-05T00:18:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2016-04-05T00:22:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:22:03","slug":"creating-chemical-cocktails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;creating chemical cocktails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met recently with Dan Kremer in Yorkshire, Ohio.\u00a0 He is an organic farmer who is an <em>absolute<\/em> evangelist for <em>Catholic Rural Life Association<\/em> teaching.\u00a0 He grows organically because he believes the artificial herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers are bad for the environment and bad for peoples&#8217; health.\u00a0 (On an earlier stop at Oberlin College, we met with David Orr who is an author and the director of the college&#8217;s<em> Environmental Science Department.<\/em>\u00a0 He believes the ingestion of the toxic farm chemicals are creating &#8220;chemical cocktails&#8221; in our systems that are exploding into things like cancer.\u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> <em>One in three Americans now get cancer in a lifetime!<\/em>)\u00a0 Our administration, in concert with the EPA, would work to get many of these artificial farm chemicals banned.\u00a0 I once told the <em>Bellefontaine Examinar<\/em> in Ohio that this could actually be construed as a lethal form of &#8220;chemical warfare.&#8221;\u00a0 Incidentally, Bellefountaine is in the heart of rural America.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m willing to take tough stands in tough places.\u00a0 For more on our agricultural stance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!agriculture\/c16jf\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met recently with Dan Kremer in Yorkshire, Ohio.\u00a0 He is an organic farmer who is an absolute evangelist for Catholic Rural Life Association teaching.\u00a0 He grows organically because he believes the artificial herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers are bad for the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1499\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}