{"id":8554,"date":"2014-01-22T21:30:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2024-07-05T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T13:44:11","slug":"food-like-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8554","title":{"rendered":"Food-Like Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Food-LikeProducts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8555\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Food-LikeProducts-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Food-Like Products\" width=\"746\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Food-LikeProducts-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Food-LikeProducts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Food-LikeProducts-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Food-LikeProducts.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a>Shona replied &#8211; it should be &#8220;the problem is they are not selling food anymore, they are selling food like products&#8221; !!!<br \/>\nI responded &#8211; Shona, I&#8217;ve looked at this a bit. It&#8217;s a little like, &#8220;Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?&#8221;<br \/>\nBoth sides CAN effect a change. The producers are merely driven by profit so they will do whatever they can legally (and sometimes illegally) do to generate a profit, no matter if it is moral or not.<br \/>\nUs consumers, however, are driven by other self-interests, maintaining our health and improving environmental sustainability.<br \/>\nTherefore until the consumers demand organic in greater numbers, the weight of the power lies with the producers of food-like material.<br \/>\nThis is where it behoves us to get more people aware of the fact that ingesting food-like products is damaging to us, the environment and our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shona replied &#8211; it should be &#8220;the problem is they are not selling food anymore, they are selling food like products&#8221; !!! I responded &#8211; Shona, I&#8217;ve looked at this a bit. It&#8217;s a little like, &#8220;Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?&#8221; Both sides CAN effect a change. The producers are merely driven &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8554\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Food-Like Products&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54693,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions\/54693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}