{"id":196300,"date":"2008-05-09T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/09\/your-government-at-work-2\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T21:57:00","slug":"your-government-at-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/09\/your-government-at-work-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Government at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the US Department of Agriculture is <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gLzqdHsMBuQV9h5k-kVnabJDsj1AD90I77382\">taking cattle ranchers to court to prevent them from doing Mad Cow tests on beef intended for export<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A number of foreign customers, particularly the Japanese, are demanding this, but the Ag Department wants to prevent testing, because it might &#8220;confuse&#8221; consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The real reason is that they are in big beef&#8217;s pocket, and they are fairly sure that if testing were done, they would get some native home grown positives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the US Department of Agriculture is taking cattle ranchers to court to prevent them from doing Mad Cow tests on beef intended for export. A number of foreign customers, particularly the Japanese, are demanding this, but the Ag Department wants to prevent testing, because it might &#8220;confuse&#8221; consumers. The real reason is that they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029,972,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-justice","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}