{"id":295,"date":"2005-07-11T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T11:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=289"},"modified":"2005-07-11T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T11:54:40","slug":"71105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"7\/11\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More summary stuff from the last week:  Stood in solidarity with a group protesting and praying in front of the Red River Women&#8217;s Clinic in Fargo, North Dakota.  While there, I also interviewed Allie Keller, 19, who is actively involved with the local chapter of &#8220;Collegians for Life&#8221;&#8230;  We headed west to Valley City, North Dakota where they were having a 1960s high school reunion weekend.  According to the town newspaper, one of the main weekend events include: &#8220;Recognizing each other <em>(It&#8217;s been so long!)&#8230;    <\/em>  In Jamestown, North Dakota, I interviewed agronomist Bob Hoffbeck.  He said because of corporate agri-business efficiency on the big farms across the country, America pays the least for food of any Developed nation (8% of the average Americans weekly take home pay).  I told a reporter for the Jamestown Sun newspaper that this is a &#8220;double-edged sword.&#8221;  That is, the chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbacides used in this ultra-efficient process are leeching into the groundwater, then polluting major waterways everywhere.  In addition, the chemicals that are accumulating in the plants are causing chemical time-bombs in our systems that are showing up as cancer, and so on.  (Not to mention, I said, agri-business is pushing the small family farmer off the land.)  I said to the reporter that common sense would say:  The short term benefits of cheaper prices at the market are killing the eco-system &#8212; and us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More summary stuff from the last week: Stood in solidarity with a group protesting and praying in front of the Red River Women&#8217;s Clinic in Fargo, North Dakota. While there, I also interviewed Allie Keller, 19, who is actively involved <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=295\"><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-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}