{"id":1636,"date":"2016-01-29T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2016-01-29T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T22:00:09","slug":"action-alert-oppose-exemption-for-corporate-hog-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/29\/action-alert-oppose-exemption-for-corporate-hog-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Alert: Oppose exemption for corporate hog farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boldnebraska.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BOLD Nebraska<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our tradition of family farming in Nebraska is under attack right now.\u00a0A bill (LB 176) that could come up for a vote any day now in the Nebraska Legislature would allow meatpackers \u2014 like the Chinese-owned meatpacking company Smithfield \u2014 to own pork in Nebraska.\u00a0This would put family farmers out of business.<\/p>\n<p>If the meatpackers own our livestock, corporate-raised pork will dominate our grocery store shelves. This means less care for the animal, more water pollution, and lower-quality food.\u00a0LB 176 also gives the vertically-integrated corporate &#8220;factory farming&#8221; system more economic power over Nebraska&#8217;s family farmers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/act.boldnebraska.org\/sign\/family-farmers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more and sign the online petition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BOLD Nebraska: Our tradition of family farming in Nebraska is under attack right now.\u00a0A bill (LB 176) that could come up for a vote any day now in the Nebraska Legislature would allow meatpackers \u2014 like the Chinese-owned meatpacking company Smithfield \u2014 to own pork in Nebraska.\u00a0This would put family farmers out of business. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/29\/action-alert-oppose-exemption-for-corporate-hog-farming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Action Alert: Oppose exemption for corporate hog farming<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[13,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}