{"id":325,"date":"2011-03-03T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/monsanto-blocks-independent-gmo-research-in-the-us-la-times-op-ed.html"},"modified":"2011-03-03T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:50:00","slug":"monsanto-blocks-independent-gmo-research-in-the-us-la-times-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/monsanto-blocks-independent-gmo-research-in-the-us-la-times-op-ed.html","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto blocks independent GMO research in the U.S. &#8211;L.A. Times op-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/news\/experts\/doug-gurian-sherman.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/assets\/images\/staff\/d_gurian-sherman.jpg\"><\/a>\nDoug Gurian-Sherman writes\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-guriansherman-seeds-20110213,0,2052370.story\">\nNo seeds, no independent research<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nMultibillion-dollar agricultural corporations, including Monsanto and\nSyngenta, have restricted independent research on their genetically\nengineered crops. They have often refused to provide independent\nscientists with seeds, or they&#8217;ve set restrictive conditions that severely\nlimit research options.\n<\/blockquote>\nIn case you wondered why all the research seems to come from other countries,\nsuch as Argentina and France, as shown in this\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/germans-document-glysophate-poisoning.html\">documentary from Germany?<\/a>\nWell, now you know.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doug Gurian-Sherman writes No seeds, no independent research: Multibillion-dollar agricultural corporations, including Monsanto and Syngenta, have restricted independent research on their genetically engineered crops. They have often refused to provide independent scientists with seeds, or they&#8217;ve set restrictive conditions that severely limit research options. In case you wondered why all the research seems to come [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8,42,671,174,73],"tags":[988,985,309,2763,15,171,183,179,2790,986,648,987],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","category-food-and-drink","category-freedom","category-glyphosate","category-science","tag-argentina","tag-doug-gurian-sherman","tag-france","tag-glysophate","tag-monsanto","tag-pesticide","tag-poison","tag-roundup","tag-science","tag-suppression","tag-syngenta","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-5f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}