{"id":1074,"date":"2008-05-09T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2008-05-09T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T15:02:07","slug":"coordinated-attacks-on-organic-food-by-pharma-shills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Coordinated attacks on Organic food by Pharma-shills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a comment attached to <a href=\"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=1034\" title=\"Is Organic Food better for you? The only test you need | BLOGDIAL\">this post<\/a>, that I had to &#8216;promote&#8217; to an entire post:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>The new wave of anti-organic propaganda: organic food is bad for the environment!<\/p>\n<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7389678.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\">biased tripe masquerading as a magazine piece<\/a> on BBQ. Previously they had <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/6595801.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\">this slightly more balanced piece.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And last week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/green-living\/the-great-organic-myths-why-organic-foods-are-an-indulgence-the-world-cant-afford-818585.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201c7 Myths Of Organic Food\u201d<\/a> debunked by Robert Johnston, who claims to be an \u2018environmental expert\u2019 but I can\u2019t find his credentials anywhere. \u201cthese foods are an indugence the world can\u2019t afford, argues environmental expert Rob Johnston\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirstpost.co.uk\/author,501,robert-johnston\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Johnston<\/a> is a doctor and freelance journalist. He was an executive producer for Lifetime Television in New York and medical adviser for the Millennium Dome Body Zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His \u2018article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirstpost.co.uk\/20747,opinion,the-great-organic-con-trick\" rel=\"nofollow\">first appeared online<\/a> before the Indescribablybad picked it up.<\/p>\n<p>If these studies and articles have not been funded and placed by BigAgro then I\u2019m a monkey\u2019s uncle. The thrust of these articles is that only by intensive, chemical-driven farming can we save the world. And we\u2019ll be healthier too. <\/p>\n<p>Smacks of desperation, with a whiff of fear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>It in fact, stinks.<\/p>\n<p>When someone who has the brain of a researcher and who is honest turns the fire-hose of their logic onto these subjects, the shiny surface gets washed away to reveal the pure dirty evil underneath.<\/p>\n<p>Note how it is the usual suspects who eagerly regurgitate the PR lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a comment attached to this post, that I had to &#8216;promote&#8217; to an entire post: &#8212;&#8212;- The new wave of anti-organic propaganda: organic food is bad for the environment! First, biased tripe masquerading as a magazine piece on BBQ. Previously they had this slightly more balanced piece. And last week, the \u201c7 Myths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,9,22,55,16,26,18,47],"tags":[267,265,270,74,115,75,266,263,262,264,268,269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}