{"id":908,"date":"2011-03-04T10:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=908"},"modified":"2011-03-04T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T15:11:36","slug":"hug-your-hamburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/03\/04\/hug-your-hamburger\/","title":{"rendered":"Hug your hamburger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband Bill and I operate a small farm&#8211;sheep and lambs, hens and eggs, turkeys. I&#8217;m a vegetarian. But, I&#8217;m willing to raise meat for the table as long as the process is humane&#8211;a good life for the animals who feed people, and a good death. With a few other people, we&#8217;re working on getting a mobile slaughtering unit up and running, which would increase capacity for farmers who wish to bring meat to market and would offer humane end-of-life handling for the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Renee Smith is our interim manager for the project and she sent me this <a href=\" http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/ideas\/episodes\/2010\/05\/17\/have-your-meat-and-eat-it-too-part-1-2-listen\/\">link <\/a>to a CBC series on meat production in Canada which mirrors the industry in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think about how meat is produced when you shop? I&#8217;m curious about how important this is to consumers across the region. Weigh in below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband Bill and I operate a small farm&#8211;sheep and lambs, hens and eggs, turkeys. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}