{"id":23824,"date":"2011-09-15T10:07:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=23824"},"modified":"2011-09-21T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:11:32","slug":"activists-push-to-improve-2012-farm-bill-warn-against-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/09\/15\/activists-push-to-improve-2012-farm-bill-warn-against-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Push to Improve 2012 Farm Bill, Warn Against Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=100% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/patty_lovera.JPG\" \/>Congress is poised to slash funding for the 2012 Farm Bill, sending the group Food and Water Watch on a mission to reeducate, and solicit support for revised legislation. The organization says a better bill will include subsidies, and mechanisms to ensure the money isn&#8217;t simply buoying the profit margins of  agribusiness monopolies. <\/p>\n<p>Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Food and Water Watch Assistant Director Patty Lovera on September 15, 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xkSQVw1i9Io\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\">www.foodandwaterwatch.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Martina Steiner recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=23824\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=100% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/patty_lovera.JPG\" \/><\/a>Congress is poised to slash funding for the 2012 Farm Bill, sending the group Food and Water Watch on a mission to reeducate, and solicit support for revised legislation. The organization says a better bill will include subsidies, and mechanisms to ensure the money isn&#8217;t simply buoying the profit margins of  agribusiness monopolies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}