{"id":1225,"date":"2009-10-08T10:50:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.envirobeat.com\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2009-10-08T10:50:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T16:50:04","slug":"pollan-shoots-down-organic-myths-at-grist-event-grist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=1225","title":{"rendered":"Pollan shoots down organic myths at Grist event &#124; Grist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;He [Pollan] said we wouldn\u2019t be doing developing nations a favor by exporting a fossil fuel\u2013dependent ag system to them when it\u2019s clear that fossil fuels are only going to become more scarce and expensive.  And overproducing government-subsidized food in the U.S. is certainly not the way to solve world hunger\u2014it just exacerbates it by putting small-scale farmers in developing countries out of business.  Give people in the developing world the tools to do sophisticated organic ag and it will help solve many problems, including undocumented immigration, Pollan argues.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2009-10-07-pollan-shoots-down-organic-myths-at-grist-event\/\">Pollan shoots down organic myths at Grist event | Grist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;He [Pollan] said we wouldn\u2019t be doing developing nations a favor by exporting a fossil fuel\u2013dependent ag system to them when it\u2019s clear that fossil fuels are only going to become more scarce and expensive. And overproducing government-subsidized food in the U.S. is certainly not the way to solve world hunger\u2014it just exacerbates it by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}