{"id":1055,"date":"2009-03-19T07:44:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T11:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2009-03-19T07:44:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T11:44:20","slug":"1055","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/1055\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT\u2019s Kristof Second Op Ed on Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We don&#8217;t add antibiotics to baby food and Cocoa Puffs so that children get fewer ear infections. That&#8217;s because we understand that the overuse of antibiotics is already creating &#8220;superbugs&#8221; resistant to medication.<\/p>\n<p>Yet we continue to allow agribusiness companies to add antibiotics to animal feed so that piglets stay healthy and don&#8217;t get ear infections. Seventy percent of all antibiotics in the United States go to healthy livestock, according to a careful study by the Union of Concerned Scientists &#8212; and that&#8217;s one reason we&#8217;re seeing the rise of pathogens that defy antibiotics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/15\/opinion\/15kristof.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">Pathogens in Our Pork <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t add antibiotics to baby food and Cocoa Puffs so that children get fewer ear infections. That&#8217;s because we understand that the overuse of antibiotics is already creating &#8220;superbugs&#8221; resistant to medication. Yet we continue to allow agribusiness companies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/1055\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","tag-animals-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}