{"id":507,"date":"2009-02-05T07:12:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T07:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2009-02-05T07:12:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T07:12:01","slug":"why_is_this_person_testifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Why Is This Person Testifying Before Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/05\/rfk-jr-hog-farmers-worse-than-bin-laden\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., testified before Congress yesterday that he thinks hog farmers are a greater threat to Americans than Osama bin Laden.&nbsp; Robert Kennedy (son of the late Robert F. Kennedy) is an environmental law attorney who was testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee&nbsp;yesterday when he was asked about&nbsp;a quote attributed to him.&nbsp; He replied that he wasn&#8217;t sure if the quote was accurate,but that he agreed with it.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, Mr. Kennedy has been involved in various legal efforts against the meat industry over the years.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Kennedy has said that he plans to go after all large farms in the country, not just pork producers. He has also said that the &#8220;right&#8221; lawsuit against livestock producers can bring damage awards of up to $13 billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why is this man attacking farmers?&nbsp;&nbsp;I don&#8217;t know if Mr. Kennedy is a vegetarian or not, but it seems odd to go after the people who supply America&#8217;s food.&nbsp; I&#8217;m really not into tofu (although I realize it is very healthy), and I don&#8217;t want my government cutting off my food supply for my own good.&nbsp; There seems to be no end to the idea of the nanny state!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- endblock --><!-- block pagination_links -->&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to today&#8217;s Washington Times, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., testified before Congress yesterday that he thinks hog farmers are a greater threat to Americans than Osama bin Laden.&nbsp; Robert Kennedy (son of the late Robert F. Kennedy) is an environmental &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=507\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}