{"id":993,"date":"2013-06-25T18:29:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T22:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2013-06-25T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T22:30:38","slug":"usda-approves-non-gmo-meat-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/usda-approves-non-gmo-meat-label.html","title":{"rendered":"USDA approves Non-GMO meat label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nNow easier to vote at the checkout counter (or the farmers market),\r\nat least for non-GMO meat.\r\n<p>\r\nStephanie Strom wrote for NYTimes 20 June 2013,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/21\/business\/us-approves-a-label-for-meat-from-animals-fed-a-diet-free-of-gene-modified-products.html?_r=3&#038;\">\r\nU.S. Approves a Label for Meat From Animals Fed a Diet Free of Gene-Modified Products<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.undergroundhealth.com\/u-s-approves-non-gmo-labeling-for-meats-from-animals-fed-non-gmo-diets\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.undergroundhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/meats-300x199.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nThe Agriculture Department has approved a label for meat and liquid\r\negg products that includes a claim about the absence of genetically\r\nengineered products.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nIt is the first time that the department, which regulates meat and\r\npoultry processing, has approved a non-G.M.O. label claim, which\r\nattests that meat certified by the Non-GMO Project came from animals\r\nthat never ate feed containing genetically engineered ingredients\r\nlike corn, soy and alfalfa.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nSeen\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.undergroundhealth.com\/u-s-approves-non-gmo-labeling-for-meats-from-animals-fed-non-gmo-diets\/\">\r\nhere<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now easier to vote at the checkout counter (or the farmers market), at least for non-GMO meat. Stephanie Strom wrote for NYTimes 20 June 2013, U.S. Approves a Label for Meat From Animals Fed a Diet Free of Gene-Modified Products, The Agriculture Department has approved a label for meat and liquid egg products that includes [&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":[7,88,41,6,13],"tags":[2761,1000,93,2775,3,902,5,2,2350,2351,2760,2767,167],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-corn","category-food","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-soybeans","tag-agriculture","tag-alfalfa","tag-corn-2","tag-food","tag-georgia","tag-gmo","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-meat","tag-non-gmo","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-soybeans","tag-usda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-g1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}