{"id":2620,"date":"2015-02-10T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T12:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2015-02-10T12:59:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T12:59:02","slug":"the-foxes-have-taken-over-the-hen-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-foxes-have-taken-over-the-hen-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The foxes have taken over the hen house!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big business is secretly lobbying government to pass laws that give the rights to determine what we eat, irrespective of health or environment, as long as it makes money for them!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that sounds too fantastic to be true, but it&#8217;s happening.\u00a0 Maybe you&#8217;re in big business and you think it can&#8217;t be that bad and it&#8217;s OK, but then ask yourself if you have any influence on the morality of the business that pays you or if they tell you what is ethical and how to behave.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest problem today is corruption in business and politics.\u00a0 It gets more vile as you ascend the hierarchy.\u00a0 It shouldn&#8217;t be like that, because we&#8217;re all good people.\u00a0 But turning a blind eye to small things has become ignoring big things and now the world is blind to our own failings &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/action.sumofus.org\/a\/stop-ttip-eci\/\">Say no to TIPP here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AAp6cD5i8O0?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big business is secretly lobbying government to pass laws that give the rights to determine what we eat, irrespective of health or environment, as long as it makes money for them! Maybe that sounds too fantastic to be true, but it&#8217;s happening.\u00a0 Maybe you&#8217;re in big business and you think it can&#8217;t be that bad &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-foxes-have-taken-over-the-hen-house\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The foxes have taken over the hen house!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6,13,23],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-environment","category-health","category-trade-and-fdi","tag-tipp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-Gg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}