{"id":802,"date":"2008-04-12T16:53:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T16:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=237"},"modified":"2008-04-12T16:53:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T16:53:23","slug":"41208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"4\/12\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Kremer, an organic farmer in Yorkshire, Ohio, just sent me something from the <em>National Catholic Rural Life Conference.<\/em> \u00a0 It was titled: <strong>Eating Is A Moral Act.<\/strong> \u00a0 One of the issues raised was: &#8220;Supporting fair wages and healthy working conditions for farmworkers.&#8221; \u00a0 (On a research tour of the San Jauoquin Valley in California we learned about just the opposite, with many farmworkers making \u00a0extremely low wages \u00a0and working continually in \u00a0extreme heat amidst toxic herbacides and pesticides.) \u00a0 Another NCRRLC issue: &#8220;People around the world have a right to food security.&#8221; \u00a0 However, at a seminar in Bluffton, Ohio, I heard Bluffton College Economics Professor Jim \u00a0Harder explain that American corporate farms can grow at such high \u00a0volumes \u00a0these days, \u00a0and ship cheaply enough &#8212; that they can undercut subsistence farmers selling to local markets in, say, \u00a0Ecuador. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t about &#8216;America being able to compete with any country in the world,&#8217; this is about nothing less than: <em>a tremendous social justice travesty! \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em> \u00a0<strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Dan Kremer left a corporate, urban lifestyle in Dayton for a &#8220;simple rural way of life&#8221; in Yorkshire, Ohio, \u00a0where he does everything in accordance with National Catholic Rural Life Conference \u00a0values. \u00a0 For more on his farm\/apostolate, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatfoodforlife.com\/\">www.eatfoodforlife.com<\/a> \u00a0 <strong>Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 This weekend events to raise awareness about the crisis in Darfur will be conducted all over the country. \u00a0 We have a detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/position_paper_darfur.htm\">position paper on Darfur<\/a> with suggestions of what can be done to help. \u00a0 In addition, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tentsofhope.org\/\">www.tentsofhope.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Kremer, an organic farmer in Yorkshire, Ohio, just sent me something from the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. \u00a0 It was titled: Eating Is A Moral Act. \u00a0 One of the issues raised was: &#8220;Supporting fair wages and healthy <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=802\"><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-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}