{"id":829,"date":"2010-12-18T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T03:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/?p=829"},"modified":"2015-06-04T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:07:07","slug":"boycotting-smithfield-foods-and-smithfield-farms-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/boycotting-smithfield-foods-and-smithfield-farms-and-why\/829\/","title":{"rendered":"Boycotting Smithfield Foods And Smithfield Farms and WHY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all over the web right now &#8211; the Humane Society worked undercover at a farm owned by Smithfield Foods, probably the main pork producer in this country. The Yahoo News article can be found here: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_thelookout\/20101217\/ts_yblog_thelookout\/undercover-investigation-of-smithfield-foods-reveals-factory-farm-horrors\">Undercover investigation of Smithfield Foods reveals factory farm horrors. If you enjoy eating pork occasionally, you might not want to read any further. But you probably should &#8212;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yes, you probably should. I did. I&#8217;m writing to Smithfield Foods to let them know why I&#8217;m boycotting all of their products. And am researching right now to find local farmers who sell retail groceries (at farmers markets and such) as well as to stores. I&#8217;ve been meaning to do it for a while &#8211; now I&#8217;ve gotten a kick in the butt. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a vegan &#8211; leaning more that way as time goes by, but not yet. I just don&#8217;t want to support companies that torture animals, every day, all year long, because it makes them a little more money. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pay more. I&#8217;ll sleep better. Support local farmers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all over the web right now &#8211; the Humane Society worked undercover at a farm owned by Smithfield Foods, probably the main pork producer in this country. The Yahoo News article can be found here: <\/p>\n<p>Undercover investigation of Smithfield Foods reveals factory farm horrors. If you enjoy eating pork occasionally, you might not [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco_friendly","category-general-interest","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}