{"id":1144,"date":"2011-11-04T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realfoodhouston.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2011-11-04T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T21:08:51","slug":"michael-schmidt-meets-with-ontario-premier-ends-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/2011\/11\/04\/michael-schmidt-meets-with-ontario-premier-ends-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Schmidt Meets With Ontario Premier, Ends Hunger Strike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schmidt has ended his hunger strike in its 37th day.\u00a0 He met with Dalton McGuinty, Ontario premier, today.\u00a0\u00a0Since the goverment declares it will not change its position on raw milk, it will be interesting to hear Michael Schmidt&#8217;s reaction to the Meeting.\u00a0 Michael Schmidt, a Canadian raw milk dairy farmer, has been campaigning for many years\u00a0for the right to sell and drink raw milk in Canada.\u00a0 He &#8220;began his hunger strike in late September after he was found guilty on 15 of 19 charges related to the sale and distribution of raw milk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20111104\/raw-milk-hunger-strike-ends-111104\/20111104\/\" target=\"_blank\">full story<\/a> on Toronto&#8217;s CTV News.\u00a0 I learned of the meeting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecompletepatient.com\/journal\/2011\/11\/4\/in-accomplishing-their-goals-michael-schmidt-and-the-raw-mil.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Gumpert<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thebovine.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/04\/michael-schmidt-meets-with-ontario-premier-dalton-mcguinty-and-ends-his-hunger-strike-which-was-in-its-37th-day\/#more-27406\" target=\"_blank\">The Bovine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schmidt has ended his hunger strike in its 37th day.\u00a0 He met with Dalton McGuinty, Ontario premier, today.\u00a0\u00a0Since the goverment declares it will not change its position on raw milk, it will be interesting to hear Michael Schmidt&#8217;s reaction <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/2011\/11\/04\/michael-schmidt-meets-with-ontario-premier-ends-hunger-strike\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,14,16,11,17,6,19,9],"tags":[26,25,38,24],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-good-food","category-access-to-real-food","category-food-freedom","category-food-rights","category-local-farming","category-raw-milk","category-real-food","category-traditional-food","tag-food-freedom-2","tag-food-rights-2","tag-local-food","tag-raw-milk-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70SEj-is","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}