{"id":38063,"date":"2019-03-30T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38063"},"modified":"2019-02-28T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T13:46:07","slug":"qotd-organic-spices-are-a-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/qotd-organic-spices-are-a-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Organic spices are a racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a whole other piece to be written about organic spices, but the short version is that demanding organic spices is never going to be good for the farmers growing them. The U.S. standards for organic products amounts to ridiculously expensive and oftentimes unnecessary practices for small farmers who just don\u2019t have the resources to do it. There are plenty of ways to arrive at ethical treatment of animals and land that are not part of our complicated organic laws. And that\u2019s not to mention the people who demand organic products but will also freak out at the sight of a bug or won\u2019t buy something that\u2019s even a little bit misshapen or with a tiny brown spot on it. You can have pesticides or you can have pests.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin PenzeyMoog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/salt-grinders-are-bullshit-and-other-lessons-growi-253193\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Salt grinders are bullshit, and other lessons from growing up in the spice trade&#8221;, <em>The A.V. Club<\/em><\/a>, 2017-04-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a whole other piece to be written about organic spices, but the short version is that demanding organic spices is never going to be good for the farmers growing them. The U.S. standards for organic products amounts to ridiculously expensive and oftentimes unnecessary practices for small farmers who just don\u2019t have the resources to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":""},"categories":[8,831,65,74,66,41,13],"tags":[347,271,924],"class_list":["post-38063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-environment","category-food","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-debunking","tag-ethics","tag-farming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9TV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38064,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38063\/revisions\/38064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}