{"id":7412,"date":"2019-04-01T06:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7412"},"modified":"2019-04-01T06:45:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:45:41","slug":"will-it-be-doubleplusungood-food-c-o-uncle-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/04\/01\/will-it-be-doubleplusungood-food-c-o-uncle-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"Will it be doubleplusungood food c\/o Uncle Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St James, the Hon <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.usembassy.gov\/our-relationship\/our-ambassador\/\">Woody 'Woodpecker' Johnson<\/a>, has put the genetically-modified cat amongst the chlorine-washed pigeons by insisting that in any post-Brexit trade deal between UK and Uncle Sam all sorts of \u00fcber-nutritious stuff will have to be imported from the home of enlightenment farming practice: think hormone-fed carrots, slurry-raised hogs, beef that's not been vaccinated against measles, honey-baked raccoon, Tennessee campylobacter pie, deep-fried grits \u00e1 la mode, and tasteless cheese. \u00a0All that and we'll have to indemnify US farm conglomerates against any (very unlikely of course) health-related legal cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Hon Woody <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/business\/article227023844.html\">attacked<\/a> what he described as a smear campaign against American agriculture by interests with a protectionist agenda, and\u00a0insisted that US food was not doubleplusungood which is why US citizens [i] are the healthiest in the world, [ii] never get ill (which is why they don't really need heath insurance), and [iii] live forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St James, the Hon Woody 'Woodpecker' Johnson, has put the genetically-modified cat amongst the chlorine-washed pigeons by insisting that in any post-Brexit trade deal between UK and Uncle Sam all...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}