{"id":49,"date":"2011-01-17T22:14:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realfoodhouston.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2011-07-24T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T00:08:41","slug":"the-right-to-choose-our-own-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/2011\/01\/17\/the-right-to-choose-our-own-food\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Choose Our Own Food?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do Texans have the right to choose the foods they eat?\u00a0 The Texas big dairy industry doesn’t seem to think so.\u00a0 They have put out an advertising campaign that warns against the “dangers” of drinking raw milk.\u00a0 The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance has issued a letter<\/a> to DairyMax demanding that they retract their false advertisements.\u00a0 The letter\u00a0details the incorrect statements in the advertisements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I drink Texas certified raw milk and think that raw milk is healthier and more nutritious.\u00a0 [Go to Real Milk.com <\/a>and the WAPF website<\/a> for information about the benefits and safety\u00a0of raw milk.] Besides the health benefits,\u00a0it tastes better!\u00a0 I quit drinking milk when I was\u00a0in elementary school.\u00a0 My mother thought I might be allergic, but I knew I just didn’t like it.\u00a0 When I discovered raw milk a few years ago, I said “WOW!\u00a0 It tastes really good, creamy and rich.\u00a0 Yes, I have to shake it up before pouring, but it’s worth it.\u00a0 I want to continue to have the right to buy raw milk–preferably without needing to drive 2-3 hours to get it–and all the other food I think is good for me, like eggs from pastured chickens, local farmers’ produce, and local grassfed beef.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, do I have that right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do Texans have the right to choose the foods they eat?\u00a0 The Texas big dairy industry doesn’t seem to think so.\u00a0 They have put out an advertising campaign that warns against the “dangers” of drinking raw milk.\u00a0 The Farm and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[10,14,16,11,6],"tags":[48,26,25,41,36,24,29],"class_list":["post-49","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-raw-milk","tag-farfa","tag-food-freedom-2","tag-food-rights-2","tag-grassfed-beef","tag-pastured-eggs-2","tag-raw-milk-2","tag-wapf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70SEj-N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}