{"id":1142,"date":"2012-07-30T13:27:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T17:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2012-07-30T13:29:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T17:29:57","slug":"trader-joe-say-it-aint-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"Trader Joe, Say It Ain&#8217;t So!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kPyE85La8tQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kPyE85La8tQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a public service announcement &#8212; <em>with dubstep!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a way-too-hot Sunday afternoon, a DC contingent in solidarity with <a href=\"http:\/\/occupy-monsanto.com\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy Monsanto<\/a> paid a surprise visit to the Trader Joe&#8217;s on 25th Street NW in Foggy Bottom, &#8220;shopping for truth&#8221; as they entered the store in a hazmat-suit-wearing conga line. Meanwhile, outside, a spirited dubstep picket educated and entertained paasersby and Trader Joe&#8217;s customers on mass-produced foods made with ingredients based on genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), and the influence of corporations like Monsanto on US policy and legislation on the labeling of GMO-based food items.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 5px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/traderjoesJul2912fotos\/traderjoesJul2912-10sml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total running time: 06:55<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a public service announcement &#8212; with dubstep! On a way-too-hot Sunday afternoon, a DC contingent in solidarity with Occupy Monsanto paid a surprise visit to the Trader Joe&#8217;s on 25th Street NW in Foggy Bottom, &#8220;shopping for truth&#8221; as they entered the store in a hazmat-suit-wearing conga line. Meanwhile, outside, a spirited dubstep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,44,392],"tags":[451,450,452,449,453],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-globalization","category-occupy","tag-food","tag-gmo","tag-labeling","tag-monsanto","tag-trader-joes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}