{"id":187924,"date":"2025-11-05T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=187924"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:01:06","slug":"a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=187924","title":{"rendered":"A quarter of America\u2019s \u201cfarms\u201d aren\u2019t really farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meat and dairy industries \u2014 along with the farms that grow corn and soy for animal feed \u2014 are some of the biggest polluters in the US. Yet they\u2019re largely exempt from environmental regulations. An argument that industry lobbyists and allied politicians often make is that there are simply too many farms to regulate&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/460046\/usda-census-two-million-farms\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meat and dairy industries \u2014 along with the farms that grow corn and soy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187924-a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms.jpg",1200,623,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187924-a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187924-a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187924-a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187924-a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187924-a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms.jpg",1200,623,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187924-a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms.jpg",1200,623,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187924-a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187924-a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187924-a-quarter-of-americas-farms-arent-really-farms-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}