{"id":109,"date":"2013-03-27T21:57:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T04:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2013-03-28T00:34:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T07:34:05","slug":"perpetuating-the-myth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/perpetuating-the-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetuating the myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oeXAqvj5nvg&amp;list=PL6B939D758396045B&amp;index=3[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of actually mounting a defense of some of the uncomfortable realities of modern, large scale, industrial pig farming, Smithfield puts on its corporate rose-colored glasses, cuing up a chirpy, lilting female narrator to deliver a\u00a0<strong>distorted, idealized version<\/strong>\u00a0of pork production. The videos, which were shot at farms in North Carolina that are contracted with Smithfield&#8217;s livestock subsidiary\u00a0<b>Murphy-Brown<\/b>,\u00a0<strong>glaze over controversial issues<\/strong>, fail to mention bad things, use\u00a0<strong>misleading<\/strong>\u00a0words like &#8220;organic&#8221; more than once and present beguiling\u00a0<strong>half truths<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Melanie Warner, CBS News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oeXAqvj5nvg&amp;list=PL6B939D758396045B&amp;index=3[\/youtube] &#8220;Instead of actually mounting a defense of some of the uncomfortable realities of modern, large scale, industrial pig farming, Smithfield puts on its corporate rose-colored glasses, cuing up a chirpy, lilting female narrator to deliver a\u00a0distorted, idealized version\u00a0of pork &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/perpetuating-the-myth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17773,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-109","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/k3upikachu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}