{"id":900,"date":"2020-03-27T04:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=900"},"modified":"2020-03-27T04:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:46:10","slug":"our-monoculture-food-supply-is-a-potential-coronavirus-calamity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/03\/27\/our-monoculture-food-supply-is-a-potential-coronavirus-calamity\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Monoculture Food Supply Is A Potential Coronavirus Calamity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-27-at-5.42.43-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-901\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-27-at-5.42.43-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1468\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-27-at-5.42.43-AM.png 1468w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-27-at-5.42.43-AM-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-27-at-5.42.43-AM-768x639.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-27-at-5.42.43-AM-1024x852.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1468px) 100vw, 1468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/with-grocery-shortages-resilient-places-support-local-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Our Monoculture Food Supply Is A Potential Coronavirus Calamity (The American Conservative)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I\u2019ve talked to farmers and local food advocates over the years, there\u2019s always been an argument out there that local-food sovereignty and diversity are not just important for our health, for the environment, or for the soil\u2014but that they are also important to national security. Diverse, strong, and local food sources are integral to the support of the communities that live there, in case global (or even national) crises threaten the normal food distribution systems that so many rely on. The thousands of miles that lie between cities and their food supply represent a danger we need to reckon with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Monoculture Food Supply Is A Potential Coronavirus Calamity (The American Conservative) As I\u2019ve talked to farmers and local food advocates over the years, there\u2019s always been an argument out there that local-food sovereignty and diversity are not just important <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/03\/27\/our-monoculture-food-supply-is-a-potential-coronavirus-calamity\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-owuenvs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}