{"id":1264,"date":"2013-03-07T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2013-03-07T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:13:23","slug":"its-an-eat-in-for-food-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s an &#8220;Eat-In&#8221; for Food Democracy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/apr8eat-in_poster\/apr8eat-in_poster_color.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/apr8eat-in_poster\/apr8eat-in_poster_color650w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1160\" \/><\/a>By this time, most of you &#8212; especially in the progressive activist community &#8212; have heard the old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stone_soup\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;stone soup&#8221;<\/a> story. Based on the concept of &#8220;stone soup&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.occupy-monsanto.com\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy Monsanto,<\/a> as part of its ongoing campaign against GMO foods and for citizen awareness of GMOs, is staging an &#8220;eat-in&#8221; on the grounds of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/aboutfda\/centersoffices\/officeoffoods\/cfsan\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FDA&#8217;s Center For Food Safety And Applied Nutrition<\/strong><\/a> in the suburbs of Washington, DC on <strong>April 8.<\/strong> The organizers are inviting folks to bring their favorite organic ingredients for a vegetarian soup to be cooked at the event, designed to raise awareness of the FDA&#8217;s recent decisions on GMOs in favor of Monsanto, and the entirely-too-close relationship between corporations and the FDA, especially in the person of its Deputy Commissioner for Foods, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_R._Taylor\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Taylor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, folks&#8230; are you hungry for a little &#8220;food democracy&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/apr8eat-in_poster\/apr8eat-in_poster_color.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.2mb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/apr8eat-in_poster\/apr8eat-in_poster_gray.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">grayscale .jpg image,<\/a> 944kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By this time, most of you &#8212; especially in the progressive activist community &#8212; have heard the old &#8220;stone soup&#8221; story. Based on the concept of &#8220;stone soup&#8221;, Occupy Monsanto, as part of its ongoing campaign against GMO foods and for citizen awareness of GMOs, is staging an &#8220;eat-in&#8221; on the grounds of the FDA&#8217;s [&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":[488,451,450,449],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-globalization","category-occupy","tag-agribusiness","tag-food","tag-gmo","tag-monsanto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","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=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}