{"id":579,"date":"2009-08-15T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/monsanto-cropdusters.html"},"modified":"2009-08-15T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T14:29:49","slug":"monsanto-cropdusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/monsanto-cropdusters.html","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto Cropdusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/organicjar.com\/2009\/1654\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/organicjar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/monsanto_crop_duster-100x100.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=0><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/organicjar.com\/2009\/1654\/\">\nMonsanto Does \u2018Dust and Ditch\u2019 Destroying Local Organic Farm<\/a>, and a farmer trying to sue discovers a shell corporation which promptly goes bankrupt:\n<blockquote>\nA fellow cropduster, Bob Howard didn\u2019t see what the big deal was.\n<p>\n\u201cIf everything was Roundup Ready it would be the greatest thing in the world, if they would all go to Roundup Ready or all go back to conventional farming it would sure be a lot easier on us.\u201d\n<p>\nIt\u2019s stunning that someone so obviously shortsighted was able to obtain a pilot\u2019s license. His apathy toward his community and flagrant self-centered simple-mindedness are indicative of the unconscious conspiracy to which so many are a party. They have all been bamboozled into believing in \u201cBetter living through chemistry.\u201d So much so, in fact, that the methods most farmers have used for a mere few decades are called \u201cconventional,\u201d and the few who practice farming as it was done for millennia are the outliers. Monsanto\u2019s website even claims that they are \u201cGrowing yield sustainably.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\nYeah, what&#8217;s the big deal?  Who needs the birds and the bees,\nand the frogs and the fish,\nand humans not coughing and getting respiratory diseases from\nthe dust.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monsanto Does \u2018Dust and Ditch\u2019 Destroying Local Organic Farm, and a farmer trying to sue discovers a shell corporation which promptly goes bankrupt: A fellow cropduster, Bob Howard didn\u2019t see what the big deal was. \u201cIf everything was Roundup Ready it would be the greatest thing in the world, if they would all go to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[1885,1884,15,179,1059,52],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","tag-conventional-agriculture","tag-crop-duster","tag-monsanto","tag-roundup","tag-roundup-ready","tag-sustainable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-9l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}