{"id":1599,"date":"2009-02-20T11:26:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T19:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2009-02-20T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T19:41:06","slug":"secular-green-ideas-waste-stupidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/secular-green-ideas-waste-stupidly\/","title":{"rendered":"Secular green ideas waste foolishly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/20\/opinion\/20waters.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion\">argues<\/a> that the federal school lunch program should be revamped to give children locally-grown, organic produce.\u00a0\u00a0 She\u2019s right about the scandal of federally-subsidized junk food being served to children; it\u2019s a tragedy that Americans have lost any awareness of the stately march of fruits and vegetables throughout the year, as well as of the joy of cooking and eating them.\u00a0 But the organic imperative is just loony, it seems to me, a replacement of religious food taboos with secular ones.\u00a0\u00a0Pesticides are our friends. There is no evidence that we are being harmed by the chemicals used to keep produce from being eaten alive by insects and fungus.\u00a0 By insisting that schools seek out pricey organic food, Waters is rendering a valid crusade virtually unrealizable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters argues that the federal school lunch program should be revamped to give children locally-grown, organic produce.\u00a0\u00a0 She\u2019s right about the scandal of federally-subsidized junk food being served to children; it\u2019s a tragedy that Americans have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/secular-green-ideas-waste-stupidly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}