{"id":2364,"date":"2003-12-29T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-29T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2021-06-01T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:09:08","slug":"woes-the-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/12\/29\/woes-the-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"Woe&#8217;s the Beef"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/foodbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s a sad week for short fat guys. The burgers we love and rely on have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/12\/0445.htm\" title=\"Link to USDA press release\">turned against us<\/a>. After reading <i>Fast Food Nation<\/i> I&#8217;m doubtful the FDA and USDA has the effectiveness anymore to track or combat the Mad Cow Disease outbreak in the Pacific Northwest. Still, the Agriculture Department&#8217;s website has several pages of interest. Here are a couple, in particular:<br><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/12\/bsechronology.htm\">Chronology of the Discovery<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/lpa\/issues\/bse\/bse_q&#038;a.html\">Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy FAQ<\/a><\/center><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The CBC also has some information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/indepth\/background\/madcow_science.html\">symptoms of BSE<\/a>.\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s a sad week for short fat guys. The burgers we love and rely on have turned against us. After reading Fast Food Nation I&#8217;m doubtful the FDA and USDA has the effectiveness anymore to track or combat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/12\/29\/woes-the-beef\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-links","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}