{"id":381,"date":"2008-04-02T21:37:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2008-04-02T21:37:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:37:42","slug":"gm-contamination-proves-more-persistent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/gm-contamination-proves-more-persistent\/","title":{"rendered":"GM contamination proves more persistent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7324654.stm\">Swedish researchers have found transgenic seed persists in nature far longer than previously thought<\/a> &#8211; further evidence that the permissive policy of governments and bio-tech companies is damaging nature in a more disastrous way than advertised.\u00a0 This should concern all of us as our food supply has now been jeopardiesd by the open sowing of terminator gene crops by Monsanto.\u00a0 (The managers and shareholders may not be alive when the consequences of this permissiveness manifest, but their children will be.)\u00a0 The best thing we can do to redress the balance is vote with your wallet &#8211; don&#8217;t buy GM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish researchers have found transgenic seed persists in nature far longer than previously thought &#8211; further evidence that the permissive policy of governments and bio-tech companies is damaging nature in a more disastrous way than advertised.\u00a0 This should concern all of us as our food supply has now been jeopardiesd by the open sowing of &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/gm-contamination-proves-more-persistent\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GM contamination proves more persistent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-69","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}