{"id":838,"date":"2008-08-26T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=273"},"modified":"2008-08-26T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T15:46:37","slug":"82608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"8\/26\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We traveled further west to Norwalk, Ohio, where we were asked to participate in a Farmer&#8217;s Market that&#8217;s coordinated by Chrissy Houtz. \u00a0 Houtz is a Vegan vegetarian who \u00a0opposes the cruelty of factory farming. \u00a0 We also discussed, among other things, the \u00a0phenomenal amount of grain used to fatten animals in this country &#8212; that could be going to feed the hungry of the world. Given that 24,000 people starve to death in the world <em>every day<\/em>, \u00a0 this is one of the biggest social justice travesties of our time&#8230; \u00a0 At the Farmer&#8217;s Market, I interviewed John Dickerson who has a land conservation service. \u00a0 A tremendously knowledgeable guy. \u00a0 He said that traditional farming methods (using pesticides, herbacides, etc.) are rapidly destroying the soil. \u00a0 But the ties between agri-business (that promotes this) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are <em>so<\/em> \u00a0 strong that changing this seems near impossible, he said. \u00a0 &#8216;Changing this,&#8217; by the way, would \u00a0mean going to a much more sustainable, organic small farm base in this country. \u00a0 Something our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_agric.html\">agricultural position paper<\/a> wholeheartedly embraces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We traveled further west to Norwalk, Ohio, where we were asked to participate in a Farmer&#8217;s Market that&#8217;s coordinated by Chrissy Houtz. \u00a0 Houtz is a Vegan vegetarian who \u00a0opposes the cruelty of factory farming. \u00a0 We also discussed, among <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=838\"><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-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","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=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}