{"id":349,"date":"2005-09-21T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T12:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=343"},"modified":"2005-09-21T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T12:22:03","slug":"91805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"9\/18\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was the featured speaker at Dan Kremer’s “Eat Food For Life” Organic Farm Festival in Yorkshire, Ohio today. I said several years ago we interviewed professor David Orr who is the head of Oberlin College’s Environmental Science Department and author of the book: Earth in Mind<\/em>. He explained farm chemicals like herbacides, pesticides, and so on, are creating “chemical cocktails” that are exploding in the form of things like cancer in our systems. I said with all due respect to “A Race for a Cure,” the country should, I believe, be more focused on : “A Race for Prevention.” That is, common sense would say we should be in a race to stop using <\/em>things that cause cancer in the first place. And I said our agricultural platform would push for a tremendous shift to much more organic farming in the country… During Campaign 2004, I was interviewed by a newspaper in Bellefountaine, Ohio — right in the heart of rural America. I said the U.S. is so concerned about the use of chemical weapons by other countries; meanwhile, and quite paradoxically — many American farmers are using ‘chemical weapons’: on us. Note:<\/strong> Dan Kremer not only farms organically, but is an evangelist<\/em> for the practice. (He follows Catholic Rural Life Association teachings for being a good environmental steward.) His farm festival drew people from Covington, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio… He also gives seminars and has helped establish a quite successful, organic co-op that represents a number of local organic growers (providing bread, meat, cheese, vegetables, fruit…) out of his “Farm Store” in Yorkshire. For more on the Kremer farm, see: www.eatfoodforlife.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was the featured speaker at Dan Kremer’s “Eat Food For Life” Organic Farm Festival in Yorkshire, Ohio today. I said several years ago we interviewed professor David Orr who is the head of Oberlin College’s Environmental Science Department and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}