{"id":7777,"date":"2015-05-02T07:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T12:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2015-05-02T07:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T12:06:06","slug":"joel-salatin-how-food-can-restore-americas-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7777","title":{"rendered":"Joel Salatin: How food can restore America\u2019s integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2015\/05\/joel-salatin-how-food-can-restore-americas-integrity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Salatin: How food can restore America\u2019s integrity<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>While I was in Australia in February, imported Chinese raspberries carrying Hepatitis A (from human sewage) hospitalized a dozen people and heightened interest in my seminars to a fever pitch. The news media and individuals fell over themselves trying to learn about local food systems and integrity food.<\/p>\n<p>Here at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyfacefarms.com\/\">Polyface Farms<\/a>, our business always thrives when recalls and food illness outbreaks hit the news. Why? Breaches in food safety continue to be our best advertisement. While these acute issues make headlines and instill panic, the most egregious food safety issues remain imbedded as a part of our cultural orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p>If it kills you or sickens you fast, the issue dominates discussions. But if it kills you or sickens you slow, it\u2019s buried as a non-news item. Such is the current state of the industrial food system. Isn\u2019t it amazing what gets people excited and creates societal movement?<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, nobody wants people killed with tainted food. But isn\u2019t it amazing that a couple of deaths and hospitalizations from an\u00a0<i>E. coli<\/i>\u00a0or<i>\u00a0salmonella<\/i>\u00a0outbreak creates hysteria while rocketing autism and childhood leukemia receive scant attention. The U.S. leads the world in the five chronic causes of death.<\/p>\n<p>While our hospitals fill with leaky gut syndrome and bowel problems and our wealth goes from farms to pharmaceutical companies, collectively we just assume these societal changes follow capitalism\u2019s success. If we really loved our children and really loved our neighbors, we\u2019d be staying up at night trying to solve this terrifying trajectory.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2015\/05\/joel-salatin-how-food-can-restore-americas-integrity\/#sthash.gqv4Sd1D.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Salatin: How food can restore America\u2019s integrity While I was in Australia in February, imported Chinese raspberries carrying Hepatitis A (from human sewage) hospitalized a dozen people and heightened interest in my seminars to a fever pitch. The news media and individuals fell over themselves trying to learn about local food systems and integrity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4,7],"tags":[20,319,323,346,395,1091],"class_list":["post-7777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-agriculture","tag-food","tag-food-security","tag-gardening","tag-health","tag-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}